Howard Hughes: Autobiography Press Conference

Caption: 

In an extraordinary news conference on January 9, 1972, televised live with a panel of journalists at a Los Angeles hotel, a sixty-six-year-old Hughes called from the Bahamas to an amplified telephone (center) to denounce a planned autobiography, purportedly cowritten by him and novelist Clifford Irving, as a fake.

Digital Creation Date: 
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Medium: 
Photograph
Courtesy Line: 

Photograph courtesy of UNLV Special Collections.

Physical Creation Date: 
Saturday, January 1, 1972