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Title: Officers become targets of sniper, 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: Officers became targets of a sniper at 104th Street and Wilmington Avenue. Photo shows police using their car as a shelter as they try to spot the sniper's hideout during renewal of the Watts rioting. Photo dated: March 16, 1966.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036466
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993.
CARL0000039455
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11601
Subject: Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Fires--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Snipers--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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