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Title
D11488-4
Date(s)
- 1941-06-19 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Despite federal warnings that American businesses engaged in defense work in the days preceding America's entry into World War II should guard against sabotage, the Tacoma Times felt that the defenses here were lax. In an effort to prove their point, they set up some fictional acts of espionage and photographed them by flashlight, with absolutely no interference from security guards. The photos appeared on the front page of the June 26, 1941 Tacoma Times with a scathing headline. Here, a "foreign agent" is shown forcing his way into a wharf warehouse with a trans Pacific liner berthed alongside. (T. Times 6/26/1941, pg. 1)
Sabotage--Tacoma; Photojournalism--Tacoma--1940-1950; World War, 1939-1945--Civil defense--Tacoma;