Thirteen-year-old Harold Willis defends his mother, Los Angeles, 1924

Title: Thirteen-year-old Harold Willis defends his mother, Los Angeles, 1924
Date Created: April 1924
Date: 1924-04
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Harold is unsmiling, wearing a sweater and a hat. Several men can be seen blurrily behind him.
Margaret Willis' 13-year-old son Harold defends his mother, claiming that the suitcase that held the body of murdered Dr. Benjamin Baldwin was full of books and not Dr. Baldwin's body.
Photograph appears with the article, "Knows Mama Didn't Lie," Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr 1924: 3.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Harold Willis
Text from negative sleeve: WILLIS, HAROLD (SONNY) SON OF MARGARET WILLIS

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Willis, Harold, b. 1912 or 13
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_4474
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cq8nr
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