Associated Press Picking Out Some Shoes

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GLC#
GLC09717.05-View header record
Type
Images
Date
14 August 1965
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
Picking Out Some Shoes
Place Written
Los Angeles, California
Pagination
1 photograph : b&w Height: 14.4 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Civil Rights Movement

One wirephoto entitled, "Picking Out Some Shoes," taken by the Associated Press, dated August 14, 1965. Image is of a man reaching into the broken window of a shoe store. Wire transfer information states that the image taken was of a broken storefront in Los Angeles, following the Watts riots. Refers to the riots as "Uncontrolled looting and arson -- which hundreds of police have been unable to stop for three nights -- has brought the California National Guard's assistance."

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