Lynn L. Woolford during his murder trial, Los Angeles, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- Lynn L. Woolford during his murder trial, Los Angeles, 1934
- Date Created
- August 8, 1934
- Date
- 1934-08-08
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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23 year old Lynn Woolford sits in a contemplative pose while on trial for manslaughter following a fatal argument with 72 year old veteran Morton Clark. Clark had apparently made derogatory comments against one of Woolford's female friends. Woolford then slapped Clark, who fell to the ground and died of a fractured skull. Woolford was found not guilty.
This photograph appears in the article, "First Blow Death Trial Under Way. Manslaughter Hearing of Lynn L. Woolford in Veteran's Slaying Begins." Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 1934: 20. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: Lynn Woolford.
Text from negative sleeve: Woolford, Lynn. Murder Case. 1934.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Woolford, Lynn L. (Lynn Lacy), 1911-2000
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Trials--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2472
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dc7s8
- 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 .