A typical example of retouching from The Times photo archives:

Steve Fontanini / Los Angeles Times, Dec. 28, 1973
From left, J. Miller Leavy of the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, with Dist. Atty. Joseph Busch and Joseph Carr, on Leavy’s last day after 41 years as a prosecutor. Leavy was the prosecutor in the Caryl Chessman, Barbara Graham and L. Ewing Scott cases, among many others.