“From Hollywood to Long Beach: Investigating Race, Media, and Institutional Power,” a conversation with Dr. Anne Soon Choi about “L.A. Coroner,” will be presented on Wednesday, March 11, from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in LA3-106 on the CSU Long Beach campus, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach.
Choi will discuss her true crime biography, “L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood” (2025).
Noguchi, now 99, was the nation’s first Asian American chief coroner in the 1960s and was involved in several high-profile cases, including the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin, Robert F. Kennedy, Natalie Wood, William Holden and John Belushi. His forensic work was also central to bringing down the Manson family, who committed the brutal Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969.
A limited number of books will be available for purchase.
All faculty, students, staff and the public are welcome.
Sponsored by American Indian Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Chicano and Latino Studies, and College of Liberal Arts Scholarly Intersections Grant.
For more information, contact Barbara Kim at barbarakim@csulb.edu.
Zoom link: https://csulb.zoom.us/j/81950718357
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