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
7 images. Attorney Walter Heil kidnaping, 11 June 1958. Detective Lieutenant Grover Armstrong Attorney Walter W. Heil (victim) Francis Lee Morris (suspect) Harry Tannatt (suspect) Bruce Tannatt (suspect) Detective V.S. Peterson. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gaze. Date: 1958-06-11. Reporter: Gaze. Assignment: Walter Heil Kidnapping. 7/8/69/70: L-R: Kidnap suspects Francis Lee Morris, 21 Harry Tannatt, 37, and his brother, Bruce Tannatt, 33, pictured at the West L.A. police station. 5: Same as above but add -- on extreme right, Detective V.A. Peterson of West L.A. 67/68: Detective Lieut. Grover Armstrong of West Los Angeles police examines 6 1/2 inch switch blade knife used in threatening atty. On table are two saps and a billy club, one allegedly used to beat the kidnap victim an automatic pistol and a 'do-it-yourself kidnapping 'kit.' All recovered with the arrest of 3 men and a woman. 63/65/66: Attorney Walter W. Heil relates story of his kidnapping by three men and a woman".
Type
image
Format
7 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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