Journal-Post Photographs

Title: Knute Rockne Outside Union Station
Description: Knute Rockne, second from left, and other unidentified men outside Union Station. Believed to be last photograph taken of Rockne before the plane crash in Kansas which killed him on March 31, 1931.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Negative

Title: Bennett Bridge Game Murder Trial, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hofman
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Hofman, friends who were playing bridge with the Bennetts when Mrs. Bennett shot and killed her husband John G. Bennett on September 29, 1929, in a quarrel over the bridge game. Mrs. Bennett was acquitted. Photo appeared in the "Kansas City Journal-Post," Thursday, February 26, 1931.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Negative

Title: Bennett Bridge Game Murder Trial, Unidentified Participant
Description: Portrait of an unidentified participant in the murder trial of Myrtle Bennett; possibly a witness. The woman is seated and wearing a fur coat and hat.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Negative

Title: Bennett Bridge Game Murder Trial, James R. Page
Description: James R. Page, county prosecutor, presents his case before the jury at the murder trial of Mrs. Myrtle Bennett. Mrs. Bennett shot and killed her husband John G. Bennett on September 29, 1929, in a quarrel over a bridge game. She was acquitted.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Negative

Title: Bennett Bridge Game Murder Trial, Crowd in Front of Criminal Court Building
Description: Crowd waits before the locked gate at the criminal court building where the murder trial of Mrs. Myrtle Bennett takes place. Mrs. Bennett shot and killed her husband John G. Bennett on September 29, 1929, in a quarrel over a bridge game. She was acquitted. Photograph with others of the Bennett trial, but it appears this one was not published.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Negative

Title: Bennett Bridge Game Murder Trial, Criminal Court Building
Description: Crowd waits at locked gate of the Criminal Court building for news about the murder trial of Mrs. Myrtle Bennett. Mrs. Bennett shot and killed her husband John G. Bennett on September 29, 1929, in a quarrel over a bridge game. She was acquitted.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Negative

Title: Bennett Bridge Game Murder Trial, John V. Hill
Description: John V. Hill, assistant prosecuting attorney, in witness stand at the murder trial of Mrs. Myrtle Bennett. Mrs. Bennett shot and killed her husband John G. Bennett on September 29, 1929, in a quarrel over a bridge game. She was acquitted.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Negative

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