Hollywood Shooting Spree

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Photograph Caption:
Ambulance attendant Harry Vaughn and partner wheel critically injured Morrie Coopersmith from Dorando's Bar in Hollywood following early-morning shooting spree in which two men were slain. Body of one victim lies covered with sheet on sidewalk.

Photographer: George Brich, Valley Times Photo Collection/Los Angeles Public Library
Photograph dated February 26, 1964

Wilsons Grave

Cool photo! Looks like it's right out of an old cop show. Cops these days look more militarized and threatening.

Slipstream

It must have been hard to shoot those stories. Did you work the crime beat often?

Evangel

Wow. Swinging between photo assignments that capture kids on a playground to those where bodies lie dead on the ground must have given you a very wide angle view of life. I wonder what your favorite types of assignments were.