Gulker, Chris
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Photograph caption reads: "Some of the group of dozens of black community leaders who denounced media handling of the Bradley affair ". Mayor Tom Bradley was being investigated by the Los Angeles City Council and other governmental bodies to determine if he had exerted improper influence to assist a bank that had paid him a consulting fee. The mayor steadfastly maintained that he had not done so. The bank had paid him $18,000 in advisory fees. Bradley has said that after learning the city was doing business with Far East National Bank, he returned the money and resigned his position. Included in photograph are Mark Ridley Thomas, Los Angeles Councilman, seated far right; Danny J. Bakewell, seated, third from right; Gilbert Lindsay, Los Angeles Councilman, seated, fifth from right. Photograph dated: May 23, 1989.
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California Digital LibraryKeywords
- African American Civic Leaders
- African Americans
- Bakewell, Danny J
- Bradley, Tom,1917 1998
- California
- City Council Members
- Far East National Bank (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Government
- Governmental Investigations
- Herald Examiner Collection Photographs
- Lindsay, Gilbert
- Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photographs
- Press Conferences
- Ridley Thomas, Mark
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