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UCLA is currently running an exhibition regarding the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial. I recommend it for all gang historians. American Experience, a PBS show, did a fine job explaining the event:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/eng_filmmore/pt.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/eng_filmmore/pt.html
Excerpts from the Sleepy Lagoon case, one of the first cases in the California courts identifying defendants as street gang members (in this case the 38th Street gang), are below. The first link goes to the initial conviction decision:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/msg/e088818064ca5e3b
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/msg/e088818064ca5e3b
| This link goes to the decision to overturn, October 4, 1944: http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=hb6z09p578&doc.view=frames &chunk.id=div00001&toc.depth=1&toc.id=div00001&brand=calispher e |
| "Special thanks to retired Hollenbeck Detective Joseph Wambaugh. The link below is to his book about Boot's in 1960's Los Angeles: http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=hb6z09 p578&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00001 &toc.depth=1&toc.id=div00001&brand=calis phere |
