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Associated Press Picking Out Some Shoes

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09717.05 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Los Angeles, California Type: Photograph Date: 14 August 1965 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w Height: 14.4 cm, Width: 20.2 cm Order a Copy

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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