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Description
10 images. San Pedro shooting, 1 June 1951. Jack Ashing, 49, Phoenix, shot and killed Arthur Cassy Arthur Roy Cassy, 28, victim of shooting Dr. B.J. Korn Lera Slaten, nurse Dtective Sergeant Timothy Hargett Ambulance attendants Everett Jenkins and C.R. Hamilton Detective Lieutenant Arthur Sage Detective Wayne Butts Mrs. Bonnie Rasey (eye-witness to shooting). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gershon. Date: 1951-06-01. Assignment: Shooting at San Pedro. Det. Arthur Sage and Mrs. Bonnie Rasey (coming thru doorway)". Supplementary material reads: "Gerson. City desk. Shooting. Note: Plasma injection shots exclusive. Arthur Roy Cassy, 28, victim in triangle shooting, grimaces in pain as Dr. B.J. Korn plunges plasma needle into vein in San Pedro Emergency Hospital where it was revealed Cassy had six bullet wounds. In other shots Nurse Lera Slaten, renders first aid to Arthur Roy Cassy while at victim's head is Amb. attendant Everett Jenkins, and nearest camera is C.R. Hamilton. Sce
Type
image
Format
10 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. image/tiff negatives (photographic) photographs
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