Author Anne Choi as 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.