Photograph of John Frank Reavis playing the trombone, Los Angeles, May 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Photograph of John Frank Reavis playing the trombone, Los Angeles, May 1940
- Date Created
- May 1940
- Date
- 1940-05
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Photograph of John Frank Reavis playing his trombone. 26-year-old Reavis is now on trial for the murder of 17-year-old B-girl Alice "Jerry" Burns. Reavis confessed to the murder but said that he was in a blind rage when he did it and didn’t know what he was doing. Reavis received a second-degree sentence of five years to life in San Quentin.
- Caption
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Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: John F. Reavis
Text from original nitrate sleeve: l to r - Ledbetter, Miles - Det.Lt.; Edwards, Edgar - Capt.; Reavis, John (center-seated); Hurst, Lloyd - Det.Lt.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Reavis, John Frank
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Photography--California--Los Angeles
Musicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Trombones
Arts
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0028004g
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .