Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
5 images. Freshour murder in Downey, 8 January 1960. Copies ---- Mrs. Sandra Ann Freshour -- 24 years (victim) Stephen Freshour -- 7 years Dickie Freshour -- 10 years Vickie Freshour -- 9 years Richard Freshour -- 29 years (suspect) Officer J.R. Guthrie (Downey). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Wesselmann. Date: 1960-01-08. Reporter: Wesselmann. Assignment: Murder in Orange County, ex-convict gives up after killing wife. 1/2/3: Richard Freshour, 29, at Downey police station after giving himself up for killing his wife in Orange Co. 4: Downey Police Lieut. J.R. Guthrie flashes light on body of Mrs. Sandra Ann Freshour in husband's car, parked on Myrtle St. at Firestone Blvd. in Downey, after killing wife near Buena Park, convict parolee drove to Downey to confess". Additional caption slip reads: "Photographer: Olmo. Date:1960-01-08. Reporter: Boynoff. Assignment: Freshour Murder (copies). Copy: Mrs. Sandra Ann Freshour, 24, recently married to Alton Gardiner. Copy: L to R: Stephen, 7 Dickie, 10 and Vickie Freshour, 9".
Type
image
Format
5 photographs: negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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