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Robert Alton (2 January 1902 – 12 June 1957) was an American dancer and choreographer, a major figure in dance choreography of Broadway and Hollywood musicals from the 1930s through to the early 1950s.
Apr 22, 1992 · We, the 48 official witnesses to the execution of Robert Harris, soon learned what the delay was about. But inside the gas chamber, the antihero of this drama seemed puzzled.
Robert Alton was a ballet student in New York, and worked his way up to choreographer on many Broadway productions. He started choreographing films in 1936, and directed dance sequences in many of Hollywood's most famous musicals (The Harvey Girls (1946), Easter Parade (1948), Show Boat (1951)).
Apr 20, 1992 · The guilt of Robert Alton Harris was not at issue in virtually any of these appeals. But the years spent traversing the long road of legal switchbacks have not been without instruction.
Apr 21, 2017 · SAN QUENTIN — After an exhausting night of uncertainty and three last-minute legal delays, condemned San Diego murderer Robert Alton Harris was put to death at dawn today in California’s gas ...
On March 6, 1979, Robert Alton Harris was convicted in San Diego County, Superior Court of two counts murder in the first degree with special circumstances, and kidnapping. Co-defendant Daniel Marcus Harris was convicted of kidnapping and sentenced to six years in state prison.
Sep 29, 2010 · Robert Alton Harris, the killer of two teenage boys snared outside a Jack in the Box, would become the first person put to death in the state in a quarter century.
Mar 14, 1992 · Murderer Robert Alton Harris, convicted of the 1978 killings of two teen-age San Diego boys, was ordered by a judge Friday to die April 21 in the gas chamber at San Quentin, setting the stage...
Apr 21, 1992 · Double murderer Robert Alton Harris died in the gas chamber at dawn Tuesday in California's first execution in 25 years, after a dramatic last-minute stay was overturned. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned that stay and three others filed through the night by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Apr 24, 1992 · SAN FRANCISCO -- Friends and family eulogized executed killer Robert Alton Harris Friday as a man who had found peace of mind while awaiting his fate on Death Row.
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