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The First with the Latest!: Aggie Underwood, the Los Angeles Herald, and the Sordid Crimes of a City - Softcover
Agness “Aggie” Underwood never intended to become a reporter—all she really wanted was a pair of silk stockings. When her husband told her they couldn’t afford them, she threatened to get a job and buy them herself. Those silk stockings launched a career that started with Aggie at the switchboard of the Los Angeles Record newspaper in 1926, and ended more than four decades later when she retired as City Editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. As a reporter for the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express (later, Herald Examiner), Aggie not only reported on crimes throughout the city, but sometimes helped solve them. Using quick wit and intuition, Aggie helped her newspaper live up to its motto "The First with the Latest." Through the Los Angeles Herald Examiner’s photo archive, now held by the Los Angeles Public Library, the cases Aggie covered are more than just faded headlines, but come to life in light and shadow. This catalog of nearly 100 images, which compliments an exhibit at the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library gives a brief overview of Agness Underwood and some of the cases she covered. All proceeds benefit Photo Friends of the Los Angeles Public Library.
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Joan Renner is an author and a social historian. Her blog, Deranged L.A. Crimes (derangedlacrimes.com), tells true tales of 20th Century murder, mayhem, political corruption and celebrity scandal.Joan has been an invited lecturer at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, the Los Angeles Police Museum, Los Angeles Public Library and at two California Association of Criminalists seminars. She appeared in a segment on film noir for the Turner Classic Movies series Film Fanatics, and in a History Channel production on mobsters during the 1930s. She has been a featured crime expert in several ID Discovery Channel series including: Deadly Women; Evil Twins; Evil Kin; Hell House; Nightmare Next Door; Dark Places, and Deadly Affairs. Most recently she appeared in Horror at the Cecil Hotel.From August 2015 through January 2016 she curated a photo exhibit at LAPL's Central Library and authored the companion book, both entitled The First with the Latest!: Aggie Underwood, The Los Angeles Herald, and The Sordid Crimes of a City. Joan has worked as a volunteer archivist for the Los Angeles Police Museum and is currently working as a volunteer archivist/consultant for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Museum. She was an integral member of the team that produced a book of historic Los Angeles crime scene photographs, entitled L.A.P.D. '53, co-authored by novelist James Ellroy and Glynn Martin (LAPD retired). The book was published by Abrams and spent four weeks on the Los Angeles Times' Bestseller list.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1515165752
- ISBN 13 9781515165750
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages148
- EditorRice Christina
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