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[Ken Murakami, KWKW disc jockey, head and shoulder portrait, Los Angeles, California, October 13, 1955]
[Ken Murakami, KWKW disc jockey, head and shoulder portrait, Los Angeles, California, October 13, 1955]
[Ken Murakami, KWKW disc jockey, head and shoulder portrait, Los Angeles, California, October 13, 1955]

[Ken Murakami, KWKW disc jockey, head and shoulder portrait, Los Angeles, California, October 13, 1955]

Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.549
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, October 14, 1955.;Studio head and shoulder portrait of Ken Murakami, 18 year old Nisei disc jockey of San Gabriel of a new one hour program on radio station KWKW in Los Angeles, California, October 13, 1955. Dressed in a light colored suit jacket with handkerchief in left breast pocket and a dark necktie with single diamond design, Murakami turns slightly to the left and looks at viewer.

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