Papers, 1920-1960.

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Papers, 1920-1960.

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Collection consists of correspondence, a tape recording, papers, scrapbooks, and related ephemera accumulated by Judge Pope on the history of the bench and bar of Los Angeles County, chiefly while a member of the Board of Trustees of the LA County Law Library. Includes correspondence with the UCLA Oral History Office, and a tape recording that was to begin a series of oral history interviews with Judge Pope. Subjects in correspondence include the dynamiting of the LA times building, the trial of the McNamara brothers, Pope's work as the first public defender in LA, his career as a newspaper reporter, descriptions of important people, and a description of the first work camp for men serving jail sentences in LA.

4 boxes (2.0 linear ft.)1 oversize box.

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Pope, James Harlan, 1885-

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Pope was born on Aug. 31, 1885 in Clayton, MI; attended Albion College (1903-6) and Univ. of Southern CA Law School (1911-7); reporter, then city editor of the Detroit morning news, 1909; reporter, LA times (1910-2) and LA evening herald (1912-6); admitted to CA bar, 1915; became the LA city public defender (1916-23), and judge, police court (1923-6); became Municipal Court judge in 1926, and presiding judge in 1931; member, board of trustees of the LA County Law Library, and of the Conference o...