Leonard Chambers was one of the most popular early physique models whose likeness was captured by Los Angeles photographers Bob Mizer and Frederick Kovert in the early 1950s. On the evening of Friday, May 4, 1956, he was shot to death by two California police officers. “Leonard Chambers was shot in the back when he tried to run away while being arrested on a traffic warrant, it would seem that our police are fairly effective at carrying out their own plan of executions...” — Bob Mizer, Physique Pictorial, 1956.
