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Title
Ambulance hit by flying object, Watts Riots
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1965
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photo of ambulance crew Walter Otte, 34 and Andy Chapralis, 47. Their ambulance was hit by a flying object while responding to calls at East 116th Street during the rioting in Watts. Photo dated: August 13, 1965.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00036478
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993.
CARL0000039467
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11607
Subject
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Fires--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Ambulances--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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