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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

This week’s mystery movie was the 1957 Twentieth Century-Fox film Three Brave Men, with Ray Milland, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Lovejoy, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, Virginia Christine, Edward Andrews, Frank Faylen, Diane Jergens, Warren Berlinger, Andrew Duggan, Joseph Wiseman, James Westerfield, … Continue reading

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Conservatives Sexually Frustrated, UCLA Daily Bruin Says

Sept. 26, 1943: The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen ends its strike against the Pacific Electric, with workers returning to their jobs at 2 a.m. Their first task is to untangle a “freight jam which had threatened to undermine the entire … Continue reading

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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 wounded Japanese lieutenant. According to Torrance … Continue reading

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Zoot Suit Files: Intelligence Report on Subversives

Sept. 24, 1942: Intelligence officer B.L. Canaga compiles a report on subversives that might be active in the 11th Naval District. His list includes communists, Japanese, Falangists, Sinarchists, Italians, Germans and acts of sabotage: “Many prominent and wealthy motion picture … Continue reading

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May 27, 1938

Photograph by the Los Angeles Times, dated April 13, 1938 Above, the defendants and their attorneys in the Harry Raymond bombing … At left, more angry exchanges between Deputy Dist. Atty. Eugene Williams and Police Capt. Earle Kynette … Also: … Continue reading

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Christmas past

Christmas in prison with Dalton Trumbo, 1950  

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Dec. 3, 1957

 

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Reds freed!

Note the suicide of Stanford scientist William K. Sherwood. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

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McCarthy dies

  Part 1 Click to enlarge Part 2, click to enlarge   Part 3, click to enlarge   Pictures from Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s funeral here.  Email me 

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