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ICW Presents "L.A. Coroner" In Conversation with Anne Choi
Event
Join a lively discussion about Dr. Thomas Noguchi's life and work, exploring controversial true crime cases, the social and racial politics of the 60s and 70s, the postwar Japanese American experience, and Hollywood celebrity culture.
ICW presents Anne Choi as she discusses her research on the life and work of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, who served as the Chief Medical Examiner–Coroner of Los Angeles County from 1967 to 1982. Her book, L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood, includes never-before-published details about Noguchi’s most controversial cases, set against the backdrop of the social and racial politics of the 1960s and 1970s, the postwar Japanese American experience, and Hollywood celebrity culture. Anne Choi will engage in conversation with ICW Co-Director Bill Deverell.
About the Book
L.A. Coroner is the first-ever biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the Chief Medical Examiner–Coroner of Los Angeles County from 1967 to 1982. Throughout his illustrious career, Dr. Noguchi conducted the official autopsies of some of the most high-profile figures of his time.
His elaborate press conferences, which often generated more controversy than they did answers, catapulted him into the public eye. Noguchi was also the inspiration for the popular 1970s–80s television drama Quincy, M.E., starring Jack Klugman. Featuring never-before-published details about Noguchi’s most controversial cases, L.A. Coroner is a meticulously researched biography of a complex man, set against the backdrop of the social and racial politics of the 1960s and 1970s, postwar Japanese American experience, and Hollywood celebrity culture.
