Buron Fitts and wife Marion at his trial for perjury, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Buron Fitts and wife Marion at his trial for perjury, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: January 21, 1936
Date: 1936-01-21
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph appears with the article, "Fitts Trial in Perjury Case Opens," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: 1.
Selections are made for the twelve jurors that will judge District Attorney Buron Fitts for false testimony in front of a grand jury in 1931 for a financial transaction of the sale of an orange grove and dismissal of a morals charge against real estate broker John P. Mills.
Mrs. Fitts rests a hand on her husband's shoulder as she leans in to speak to him at the prosecutor's table.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Mr. + Mrs. Buron Fitts
Text from newspaper caption: Buron Fitts, District Attorney, and Mrs. Fitts shown in court where the prosecutor faces trial on a perjury charge.
Text from negative sleeve: 3268 - Mr. + Mrs Buron Fitts Perjury Trial [stamped:] Jan 21 1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Fitts, Marion, 1893-1985
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12146
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h84sq
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Rights Country: US
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