 |
| Many people have written to the Daily Mirror asking "What happened to Butch Harris?" or "Did he finally get into the Cub Scouts?" At this point, we don’t know.
Here’s the background. Recently, the Daily Mirror got a UCLA intern named Catriona Lavery and she started going through the microfilm of the Mirror-News, which unlike The Times, isn’t online via ProQuest. Catriona found Paul Coates’ followup story, then went back through the microfilm and dug up the original. Catriona is going to continue through the Mirror-News and check the African American weeklies (the California Eagle and the Los Angeles Sentinel) to see if there’s any further information. I haven’t had any luck checking the online databases for his name, so if anybody knows Butch Harris, tell him we’re looking for him! And no, The Times never wrote a word about this incident, which is one reason we’re tracking it down now. |
ladailymirror.com 