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Photo Credits

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reproduce the photos in this book:

UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, Los Angeles Daily News Photographic Archives, Copyright © Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.

UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives, Copyright © Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.

The Los Angeles Public Library Photograph Collection, Copyright © Los Angeles Public Library Photograph Collection, History Department—LL4, 630 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071.

The Museum of Ventura County Photograph Collection, Copyright © Museum of Ventura County, 100 East Main Street, Ventura, CA 93001.

About the Author

Richard Rayner is the author of eight previous books, including
The Blue Suit, Drake’s Fortune
, and
The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California.
His work appears in
The New Yorker
, the
Los Angeles Times
, and other publications. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.

Leslie White (center), cocky and self-assured, poses with colleagues days after the St. Francis dam disaster.
(Museum of Ventura County)

A mass grave for St. Francis victims.
(UCLA Special Collections)

Dave Clark (second from right)—tall, tan, white-hatted, and “frigid-eyed”— strides on a downtown sidewalk with other attorneys.
(UCLA Special Collections)

A major scene of the action—the Los Angeles Hall of Justice, which opened in 1925.
(UCLA Special Collections)

Buron Fitts, district attorney for Los Angeles County and a formidable power player, enjoys a photo op.
(UCLA Special Collections)

Oil promoter C. C. Julian—his dealings characterized the crazy 1920s boom.
(Los Angeles Public Library)

A bloody Albert Marco, pictured after his arrest at the Ship Café.
(UCLA Special Collections)

Oil magnate E. L. Doheny—political scandals in which he was enmeshed led to profound tragedy.
(UCLA Special Collections)

A forest of Los Angeles oil derricks from 1926.
(UCLA Special Collections)

Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, the morning after the shootings.
(UCLA Special Collections)

The corpses of Ned Doheny (foreground) and Hugh Plunkett.
(Boston University)

Journalist and murder victim Herbert Spencer.
(Los Angeles Public Library)