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Chessman - The End 1960
Description
Item title reads - Chessman - the end.
Caryl Chessman is executed 12 years after sentencing for sex crimes, kidnapping and robbery when a secretary misdialled the number and failed to deliver the latest stay of execution in time. California, America (USA).
L/S exterior of San Quentin...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Emma
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 52588
- Sort Number:
- 60/037
- Time in/Out:
- 01:22:29:00 / 01:23:24:00
- Canister:
- 60/37
- Film ID:
- 1678.16
- Issue Date:
- 05/05/1960
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