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Title: Molotov cocktail misses mark, 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: Police stand by as a Molotov cocktail (circle) burns itself out on the sidewalk at 9752 Wadsworth Avenue. Rioters had tried to throw it through the window (arrow) but missed, and the burning bottle fell harmlessly to the ground. Photo dated: March 16, 1966.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036463
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993.
CARL0000039452
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11591
Subject: Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Fires--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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