Portrait photograph of Baxter shorter, kidnapping and murder victim, Los Angeles, 1953
Item Overview
- Title
- Portrait photograph of Baxter shorter, kidnapping and murder victim, Los Angeles, 1953
- Date Created
- 1953
- Date
- 1953
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Barbara Graham, Jack Santo, and Emmett Perkins were convicted of the murder of Mabel Monahan in 1953, during a robbery attempt in her home, and were executed two years later. John True and Baxter Shorter participated in the robbery. Shorter confessed when arrested for another charge, and was kidnapped and murdered by Perkins and Santo.
Portraits photographs of 3 men, including Baxter Shorter (right).
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w negative
Keywords
- Genre
- news photographs
- Names
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Shorter, Baxter
Monahan, Mabel, 1888-1953 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Trials (Kidnapping)--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- C1429_b173_80492-9_single_frame
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00256chx
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .