Lou Daro takes the witness stand in a crowded room, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Lou Daro takes the witness stand in a crowded room, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- July 15, 1935
- Date
- 1935-07-15
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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35-year-old William Focher was mistakenly shot by police, believed to have held up the Olympic Auditorium.
Lou Daro sits on the witness stand wearing a white suit and a black tie. He gestures with his index finger, watched by the jury and sitting beside the judge and in front of another unidentified man.
Photograph appears with the article, "Killing Held Justifiable," Los Angeles Times, 16 July 1935: A1. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: 1217 - Lou Daro Mistake killing [stamped:] Jul 22 1935
Handwritten on negative: Lou Daro on stand
Text from newspaper caption: Lou Daro, wrestling promoter, at left, testifying yesterday before Coroner's jury as to altercation with William Focher, who subsequently was slain when fleeing police, who mistakenly believed Focher had held up the Olympic Auditorium. The slaying was held justifiable but very unfortunate.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_7556
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002df8dz
- 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 .