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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated March 5, 1962 partially reads, "A 2 1/2-year-old Sylmar boy fell into a wash below the Pacoima Dam today and drowned before he could be rescued from swift waters three miles away. The boy was Gregory Michael Dodd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dodd, 12550 S. Hunnewell Ave. It was the second drowning a flood control channel in the Valley within a month. Charles Edward Hibbs, 7, Canoga Park, drowned when he fell into the rain-swollen Los Angeles River during the Feb. 8 rainstorm and was carried three miles by the swirling waters before he was pulled out by policemen." Photograph caption reads, "Mother of drowned boy is comforted by friends in her Sylmar home. Mrs. Richard Dodd had just learned of Gregory’s death."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Drowning--California--Los Angeles Parental grief--California--Los Angeles Mothers--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Dolls--California--Los Angeles Living rooms--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Sylmar (Los Angeles) Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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