Betsey Cushing Roosevelt and attorney Basil O'Connor, Los Angeles, February 29, 1940

Title: Betsey Cushing Roosevelt and attorney Basil O'Connor, Los Angeles, February 29, 1940
Date Created: February 29, 1940
Date: 1940-02-29
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Betsey Cushing Roosevelt and attorney Basil O'Connor surrounded by photographers after Mrs. Roosevelt arrived in Los Angeles for her divorce suit against husband James Roosevelt, the eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Roosevelts were married for ten years before they separated and Mrs. Roosevelt moved from Los Angeles back to New York, taking the couple's two daughters. James Roosevelt was the first to file for divorce, citing desertion against his wife
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: l to r - O'Connor, Basil - Atty.; Cushing, Henry K., Atty.; Roosevelt, James, Mrs. (Betsy Cushing)
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Mrs. James Roosevelt with Atty Basil O'Connor

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Whitney, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, 1908-1998
O'Connor, Basil, 1892-1972
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
People
Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Photographers--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00280160
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Rights Country: US
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