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Photos That Make Us Wonder
OK, does anyone else wonder about the main picture in the Shalikashvili obituary in The Times? OK, how about now? Sir, Gen. Shalikashvili, sir, are you wearing hearing protection, sir?
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LAPD Pistol Team – 1934 [Updated]
Photo: The LAPD pistol team puts on a demonstration at the Auto Club headquarters in 1934. Credit: “Three Cars in Every Garage: A Motorist’s History of the Automobile and the Automobile Club of...
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Smallpox Epidemic – Los Angeles, Feb. 7, 1863
Read the entire Feb. 7, 1863, edition of the Los Angeles Star from the Huntington Library, scanned by USC. Feb. 7 1863: The coroner holds an inquest in the killing of Christian Hutt. George Wright,...
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Japanese Lieutenant Killed at Guadalcanal Went to USC
April 11, 1943: And here begins one of my favorite “Li’l Abner” episodes: Zoot Suit Yokum. The Times reports a strange encounter on Guadalcanal in which an unidentified Marine took a rifle from a...
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Photos That Make Us Wonder
OK, does anyone else wonder about the main picture in the Shalikashvili obituary in The Times? OK, how about now? Sir, Gen. Shalikashvili, sir, are you wearing hearing protection, sir?
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LAPD Pistol Team – 1934 [Updated]
Photo: The LAPD pistol team puts on a demonstration at the Auto Club headquarters in 1934. Credit: “Three Cars in Every Garage: A Motorist’s History of the Automobile and the Automobile Club of...
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Smallpox Epidemic – Los Angeles, Feb. 7, 1863
Read the entire Feb. 7, 1863, edition of the Los Angeles Star from the Huntington Library, scanned by USC. Feb. 7 1863: The coroner holds an inquest in the killing of Christian Hutt. George Wright,...
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Japanese Lieutenant Killed at Guadalcanal Went to USC
April 11, 1943: And here begins one of my favorite “Li’l Abner” episodes: Zoot Suit Yokum. The Times reports a strange encounter on Guadalcanal in which an unidentified Marine took a rifle from a...
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Oct. 14, 1907: ‘In 9 cases out of 10, Where There Is a Shooting, There Is...
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Oct. 14, 1907 Los Angeles “In nine cases out of ten, where there is a shooting, there is also a woman,” said The Times. In this case, there was Oscar E. Otto, a...
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Oct. 16, 1947: LAPD Issues Guns to Policewomen!
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. Sixteen policewomen who will be graduated at 3 p.m. tomorrow from the Police Academy after their training course...
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December 1947: Youths, Bored With Hunting Squirrels, Shot at Each Other –...
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and original appeared on the 1947project. Facing a possible accusation of involuntary manslaughter, Jack L. Modisett, 17, of 1717 N. Avenue 53, was removed to...
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Jan. 14, 1959: Paul Coates on Three Boys Who Killed Their Father as He Slept
Jan. 14, 1959: Paul Coates has the amazing story of three boys, ages 7, 9 and 10, who shot their father to death as he slept. Coates says that the mother (and the boys planned to kill her as well –...
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I didn’t mean to kill him
May 10, 1957 Malibu Four years after his father was killed by a madman, USC premed student Patrick Quinn died during what had been a playful gunfight with the younger brother of his girlfriend when...
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It was loaded
Sept. 27, 1957 Los Angeles Thomas Lee Anglin’s first mistake was buying a gun so his wife could protect herself. His next mistake was arguing with her while she was holding the loaded .22-caliber...
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Mental patient flees
Nov. 20-21, 1957 Los Angeles There are many things we don’t know about Mary H. Andrews. We don’t know, for example, why Judge Elmer D. Doyle committed her to a Glendale mental hospital in November...
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Wife shoots husband
Nov. 21, 1957 Los Angeles You remember that 35-year-old woman out in the Valley who hooked up with her daughter's 16-year-old boyfriend three years ago? Well, she shot him. Accident. Jimmy and Dee...
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Jan. 27, 1908
Women prove themselves to be good shots during a target match in the Cahuenga Pass … A.C. Freeman scores 22 out of a possible 25 at 50 yards with his rifle upside-down and the stock resting against his...
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May 18, 1938
Above, Esther Sichler shows off her skill in a match at Elysian Park with a .38: A 3-inch group at 25 yards, breaking all women’s records in target shooting, The Times says. Her husband is a sheriff’s...
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May 23, 1938
It’s another slow day in the trial of Police Capt. Earle Kynette in the Harry Raymond bombing … In the meantime, let’s take a look at former police investigator Fletcher E. Felts, whose father was one...
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May 26, 1958
Above and at left, authorities arrest five members of the July 26 Movement in a plot to make arms for Fidel Castro’s rebel army in Cuba. A machine shop set up in a garage at 3144 Oakwood Ave.,...
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