Mosk, Richard M.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department records
Collection
Identifier: 0229
Abstract
The city of Los Angeles became the epicenter of a public relations scandal on March 3, 1991, when an amateur cameraman captured on video four uniformed LAPD officers beating motorist Rodney G. King. In addition to generating public outrage, the incident cast a dark shadow over the LAPD and called into question the integrity of the nation's third largest municipal police force. Subsequently, the ten member Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department was formed to conduct a...
Dates:
1991
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Richard M. Mosk Christopher Commission records
Collection
Identifier: 0395
Abstract
Chaired by attorney Warren Christopher, the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department was formed in the wake of the 1991 videotaped beating of Rodney King by several LAPD officers. The collection consists of files kept by Richard M. Mosk in his capacity as a member of the Commission.
Dates:
1989-2000
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Richard M. Mosk Warren Commission papers
Collection
Identifier: 6120
Abstract
Richard M. Mosk was a California Court of Appeal Justice who over more than three decades of public service investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, chaired the Motion Picture Classification and Rating Administration that provides the parental ratings for motion pictures, and sat on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague, where he served as a judge from 1981 to 1984 and 1997 to 2001. The Warren Commission was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29,...
Dates:
1963-2015
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
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- Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources 2
- Police brutality -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 2
- Police misconduct -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 2
- Police-community relations -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources 2
- Transcripts 2
- Trials (Police misconduct) -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 2
- Assassination -- Investigation -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
- Assassination -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
- Assassination -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
- Compact discs 1
- DVDs 1
- Interviews 1
- Interviews (Sound recordings) 1
- Journals (periodicals) 1
- Legal documents 1
- Letters 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
- Magazines (periodicals) 1
- Maps 1
- Memorandums 1
- Photographs 1
- Police -- Complaints against -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
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- Press releases 1
- Race riots -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
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