Crowds in front of the Courthouse during the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1927-1928

Title: Crowds in front of the Courthouse during the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1927-1928
Date Created: [1927-1928]
Date: 1927/1928
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Crowds line both sides of the street and gather in front of the old Los Angeles County Courthouse during the arraignment or trial of William Edward Hickman, confessed kidnapper and murderer of Marion Parker, age 12. Photographed in the vicinity of Broadway and Temple streets (current City Hall location). The Hall of Records stands on the left.
Caption: Written on negative: Hickman case
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward...Murder

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Los Angeles County Courthouse (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.0557099
Latitude: -118.2435579
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Courthouses--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10456
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hbf23
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Rights Country: US
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