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Friday, August 29, 2025
Leonard Chambers
This is Leonard Chambers, a model whose life was taken in a very questionable
LA area police operation in 1956. Bob Mizer wrote a protest essay
in Physique Pictorial, something almost unheard of at the time.
Through his 2nd wife's relatives, he's my 5th cousin, twice removed. Some links: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chambers-15557 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116502307/leonard_leon-chambers https://blog.bobmizer.org/physique-pictorial-model-shot-by-lapd https://www.rosehills.com/obituaries/whittier-ca/leonard-chambers-8323521 https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/GJZQ-SY8
It goes back even farther than 1958. Some of my grandmother's cousins moved to LA in the 1930s, and they actually mentioned the LAPD unflatteringly in their letters home.
How sad. I fear we are headed back in that direction.
ReplyDeleteThrough his 2nd wife's relatives, he's my 5th cousin, twice removed. Some links:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chambers-15557
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116502307/leonard_leon-chambers
https://blog.bobmizer.org/physique-pictorial-model-shot-by-lapd
https://www.rosehills.com/obituaries/whittier-ca/leonard-chambers-8323521
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/GJZQ-SY8
It's a tragic story that I think was neatly covered up by LAPD. How many times from 1956 to present day has that been the case!
ReplyDeleteIt goes back even farther than 1958. Some of my grandmother's cousins moved to LA in the 1930s, and they actually mentioned the LAPD unflatteringly in their letters home.
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