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Raymond bombing

Feb. 20, 1938
Los Angeles

Yes, the AP actually wrote the above story and The Times actually published it. Below, one of the most backward sentences I have read in a long while: "Not guilty will be the plea of Earle Kynette, suspended acting captain of the police intelligence unit, indicted Friday on charges of attempted assassination in the bombing of Harry Raymond, private detective." This reminds me of Wolcott Gibb's satire of Time magazine's writing: "Backward ran the sentences until reeled the mind. Where it will end, knows God." Prisoners give Kynette and his co-defendants a warm welcome at the jail ... And heavy snow isolates residents of Lake Tahoe.

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Posted by Larry Harnisch on February 20, 2008 in Front pages | Permalink

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Larry Harnisch. The leading Black Dahlia expert and a collaborator in the 1947project, Harnisch has been a copy editor at The Times since 1988. He has appeared on many TV shows discussing the Dahlia case, notably "James Ellroy's Feast of Death."

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