Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts

30 November 2008

Creepy Bystander (reflected in window) Gazes At Wounded 'Lover's Lane' Suspect



Title: Wounded suspect, Minton R. Scott in police car after being shot by officers in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

Published caption: WOUNDED: Suspect Minton R. Scott in police car after being shot by officers who had set trap in Ascot Hills for man who was terrorizing couples in parked automobiles.

Publication: Los Angeles Times
Publication date: January 13, 1947
Subjects: African American criminals--California--Los Angeles
Arrest (Police methods)
East Los Angeles (Calif.)
Police shootings--California--Los Angeles
Genre: News photographs
Phys. descr.: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 10 x 12.5 cm.
Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Photo ID: uclalat_1429_b9_44330
Copyright contact: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special

Los Angeles Times Photo Archives (UCLA)
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28 November 2008

Photographer John Shearer On Assignment, Attica Uprising, New York, 1971



Photographer John Shearer on assignment outside Attica prison during a prisoner riot and uprising.
Location: NY, US
Date taken: September 1971
Photographer: Bill Ray
Size: 843 x 1280 pixels (11.7 x 17.8 inches)

Narratives From The 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, and further: Attica Revisited.

LIFE Magazine Photo Archive
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"Cabinets" For Bodies "Identified" As "John Doe" From The Riots At Attica, September 1971



Closeup of cabinets for bodies and labels which indentify them as "John Doe".
Location: NY, US
Date taken: September 1971
Photographer: Bill Ray
Size: 1280 x 841 pixels (17.8 x 11.7 inches)

I was pretty young when this happened, but I remember that the Attica Uprising lingered in the collective consciousness for a long time, and was only later forgotten as a tragedy and injustice. More information, here.

LIFE Photo Archive
"Cabinets" For Bodies "Identified" As "John Doe" From The Riots At Attica, September 1971SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend

27 November 2008

Arthur Hall, Weed Suspect, Los Angeles Daily News 1950



Title: Suspect Arthur Hall being interviewed by police, as officer displays marijuana plant recovered in raid, Los Angeles, Calif., 1950
Publication: Los Angeles Daily News
Publication date: 1950
Subjects: Arrest (Police methods)
Drug control--California--Los Angeles County
Drug seizures--California--Los Angeles County
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Dept.
Marijuana
Police questioning--California--Los Angeles County
Police raids--California--Los Angeles County
Police stations--California--Los Angeles County
Genre: News photographs
Phys. descr.: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 10 x 12.5 cm.
Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Photo ID: uclalat_1387_b153_51368-1
Copyright contact: 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
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