Word: bakersfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dingy Turner Street where Earl Warren was born in 1891 is now occupied by a Chinese family. Earl Warren's father was a master carbuilder for the Southern Pacific, who lost his job in 1894 when he went out on strike. The family moved 110 miles north to Bakersfield, then still something of a frontier town. Governor Warren recalls the day as a child when he was riding his donkey down the main street and ran spang into the running gun battle in which Deputy Sheriff Wil liam E. Tibbett, father of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, was killed...
JUNE BURN Bakersfield, Calif...