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Title: Playing possum, say police
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: Police thought they had another death to add to city's riot toll when they found this man lying face down, after the gun battle with Black Muslims at the Muslim temple. He appeared lifeless when they rolled him over, but was found to be alive and conscious though injured. Photo dated: August 18, 1965.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039732
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5745.
CARL0000043448
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15577
Subject: Black Muslims--California--Los Angeles
Political activists--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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