Mrs. Elizabeth Besenty on the witness stand during the Arthur Burch murder trial, Los Angeles, 1921
Item Overview
- Title
- Mrs. Elizabeth Besenty on the witness stand during the Arthur Burch murder trial, Los Angeles, 1921
- Date Created
- December 8, 1921
- Date
- 1921-12-08
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Judge Sidney N. Reeve, left, observes Mrs. Elizabeth Besenty, right, on the witness stand. District Attorney Asa Keyes sits with his back to the camera to the left of an unidentified man. An American flag hangs behind the judge's bench.
Mrs. Elizabeth Besenty testified as a witness during the Arthur C. Burch murder trial that took place in December, 1921. She lived near J. Belton Kennedy, the murder victim, in the Beverly Glen neighborhood.
This photograph appears with the article, "SAW KENNEDY DEATH SHOT FIRED, WOMAN TESTIFIES.," Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 1921: II1
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Reeve, Sidney N., 1877-1927
Keyes, Asa, 1877-1934
Besenty, Elizabeth, 1885-1972
Burch, Arthur C. (Arthur Courtenay), 1893-1944 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Judges--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_1218
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dbn4s
- Manifest url
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 .