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Letter from Robert L. Goe to Mr. Virgil W. Peterson (CCC), 10-1-59.
McDougal, Last Mogul, 36-38.
Murray, "The Richest SOB in Hell," in Legacy of Al Capone.
Virgil W Peterson memo, 8-26-58.
60. Ragen's sworn testimony in Kefauver Continental Wire investigative files, box 75.
61. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 11.
62. Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood, 107.
63. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 31-32.
64. Russo, Outfit, 192.
65. McDougal, Last Mogul, 40-41.
66. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 32.
67. Demaris, Captive City, 125.
68. Moldea, Dark Victory, 40.
69. Bruck, When Flollywood Had a King, 31.
70. McDougal, Last Mogul, 141; Moldea, Dark Victory, 14; and Peretti, Creation of Jazz, 147-48.
71. Moldea, Dark Victory, 22.
72. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 30.
73. Additional Petrillo sources: New York Times and Chicago Tribune, 10-25-84 (Petrillo obits); CurrentBiography (1940), 650-52; Chicago Tribune, 3-1-41, 3-4-41, 6-14-40, 8-21-40, and 9-18-40; Jerome Beatty, "Hard Boiled Maestro," American Magazine, October 1940; PMs Weekly, 9-8-40; Bruck, When Hollywood Had aKing, ch. 1, "The Two Caesars"; and Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood, 397-98.
74. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 67-68.
75. McDougal, Last Mogul, 57-58.
76. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 65.
77. Ibid., 354.
78. Int. of Henry Denker, 8-30-04.
79. Demaris, Captive City, 123.
80. Factor sources:
Chicago American, 11-12-62, 11-13-62.
Chicago Daily News, 11-12-62, 12-27-62.
Chicago Daily Tribune, 8-11-54, 8-13-54, 11-14-62.
Chicago Tribune, 11-13-62, 12-28-62.
Factor's pardon file at National Archives, College Park, MD.
Johnson, Wicked City, 350-53.
Los Angeles Herald Express, 10-16-61.
Los Angeles Times, 1-24-84 (obit).
News week, 1-7-63.
New York Times, 2-16-67.
Russo, Outfit, 100-104.
Touhy, When Capones Mob Murdered, passim.
81. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 6
1.
82. Messick, Beauties and the Beast, 235.
83. CCC memo in files of Jack Tobin.
84. U.S. v. Nitti, Southern District Court of New York, case #114-101, p. 1055.
85. Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the 20th Century (New York: Verso, 1996), 375-76.
86. Chicago Tribune, 6-13-48.
87. Fox, Blood and Power, 148.
88. Gomery, Shared Pleasures; and "Barney Balaban," International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers,Volume4: Writers and Production Artists (St. James Press, 1996).
89. Chicago Tribune, 3-31 -39.
90. Dorothy Appleby sources: Ints. with James Appleby, Jennifer Silberblatt (probate executor), and Craig Robins (probate attorney); Portland Press Herald, 9-9-90 (obit); and Chicago Tribune, 8-16-26, 5-21-31, 4-2 32, 5-12-32, 6-30-35, 9-11-35, 9-13-35, 9-19-35, 9-22-35, 9-24-35.
91. Int. of Wendell Rawls, 6-17-04.
92. FBI L.A. Field Office, Korshak summary update, 8-12-68.
93. James Doherty, Chicago Daily Tribune, 2-3-46.
94. FBI int. of Korshak, 9-27-48, on file at CCC, #58-194.
Chapter Three
1. Niklas, Corner Table, 35.
2. Scalise sources:
"Aides Tell How Scalise Ruled Union Treasury," Chicago Daily Tribune, 5-4-40.
Chicago Crime Commission memo, Sidney R. Korshak #70-36, 1-19-76.
Chicago Crime Commission memo from Virgil W Peterson, 6-6-62.
Chicago Daily News, 5-4-40.
Life magazine, 5-6-40, 34.
Los Angeles Times, 9-15-69.
New York Times, 9-15-40, 10-8-40.
Pegler, various 1940 "Fair Enough" columns, at Hoover Library, West Branch, Iowa.
Witwer, "Scandal of George Scalise."
3. CCC Peterson memos, 12-14-40, 12-17-40, 12-14-42.
4. Alan Hynd, "The Rise and Fall of Joseph Schenck," Liberty magazine, 3-pt. series, June-August 1941.
5. John Bartlow Martin, "Who Killed Estelle Carey?" Harper's, June 1944.
6. Hollywood extortion-case sources: Int. of Kostelanetz, 4-10-01; other details from Bioff's testimony in U.S. v.
Frank Nitto, et al., U.S. District Court for Southern District of N.Y., case #19456-19460, box 5808, Record Group 276, National Archives, New York.
Also:
Chicago American, 3-29-50.
Chicago Tribune, 9-24-47.
Dunne, Hollywood Labor Dispute.
Fox, Blood and Power, 210-15.
Gage, Mafia U.S.A., 344-56.
Home, Class Struggle in Hollywood.
Messick, Secret File, 167-83.
Neilsen and Mailes, Hollywood's Other Blacklist.
News week, 11-10-41,54-55.
Rasmussen, "L.A. Then and Now," Los Angeles Times, 1-2-00.
Variety, 8-22-33, 7.
7. Chicago Daily News, 3-18-43.
8, Int. of Fran Marracco, 2-27-04.
9, Int. of Tom Zander, 12-803.
10. Int. of MJ Goldblatt, 6-6-04.
11 Arthur Engel, "Paul Ziffren: California's Cure for Tired Democratic Blood," Harper's, September 1959.
12 Quoted in U.S. v. Campagna.
13 Berkow, Maxwell Street, 245.
14. Int. of Pete Wacks, 5-10-03.
15 Int. with Author, 5-21-04.
16. See, among others, McDougal, Last Mogul, 141.
17. FBI telex, SAC L.A. to director, 10-15-59.
18. Chicago Tribune, 6-13-37.
19. Ibid., 5-16-40.
20. FBI memo, Ladd to Rosen, 7-14-52, in FBI Bazelon file.
21. Greenberg tax records in Kefauver Exhibit 70, 11-1-50.
22. Nick Tosches, "The Man Who Kept the Secrets," Vanity Fair, April 1997.
23. Velie, Reader's Digest, July 1960.
24. Memo from Hoover to attorney general, 7-14-52, Bazelon file.
25. Chelf Committee memo, unsigned, 11-2-51, based on interview with a prominent D.C. attorney friend of Bazelon's.
26. Ibid.
27. Chicago Tribune, 11-24-85.
28. CCC memos to file from William Lambie, director, 11-18-81, 11-20-81.
29. FBI HQ Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 19.
30. CCC report of "Dixon," 9-24-44.
31. Chicago Tribune, 11-24-85.
32. Ibid.
33. Confidential int., 1-14-05.
34. Kansas City Times, 3-9-82.
35. Quoted in Demaris, Boardwalk Jungle, 269.
36. Int. of Jack Clarke, 6-30-03.
37. Sandy Smith, Chicago Tribune, April 12-14, 1961, 4-4-61.
38. Letter from LAPD intelligence chief Jim Hamilton to CCC, 1-9-57.
39. New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement interview report of Sidney Korshak, 10-18-83.
40. From L.A. FBI report, 2-35-63 (92-113-2085), Korshak file.
41. Int. of Sy Hersh, 5-16-03.
42. Int. of MJ Goldblatt, 6-6-04.
43. FBI case file 156-23-26, Korshak-Humphreys labor case.
44. Int. of Brian Ross, 4-19-04.
45. Int. of Sandy Smith, 11-11-03.
46. Int. of E. Timothy Applegate, 4-12-04.
47. Int. of Jack Walsh, 5-13-04.
48. Int. of Pete Wacks, 5-10-03.
49. Int. of Fran Marracco, 2-27-04.
50. Tosches, "Man Who Kept the Secrets."
51. FBI H Q Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 4.
Chapter Four
1. Roemer, E.nforcer, 171.
2. Rabbi Edward Feinstein, "City of Angels," Rosh Hashanah, 2000, Feinstein Archives.
3. Starr, Dream Endures, 185.
4. Robert Scheer, "The Jews of LA," Los Angeles Times, 1-29-78.
5. Cleland, California in Our Time, 127.
6. Gabler, Empire of Their Own, 274.
7. Sources on Beverly Hills and Hillcrest include:
Gabler, Empire of Their Own, 263, 274-76, 289.
McDougal, Privileged Son, 128.
Newmark, Sixty Years in Southern California.
Rachlis, "The Patron. Class," Los Angeles Magazine, June 2003.
Scheer, "The Jews of L.A.," series in Los Angeles Times, January 28, 30, 31, 1978.
Vorspan and Gartner, History of the Jews of Los Angeles.
Weddle, Among the Mansions of Eden.
8. Niklas, Corner Table, 355.
9. Gabler, Empire of Their Own, 6.
10. Samish and Thomas, Secret Boss of California, 146.
11. Cohen, Mickey Cohen, 2-3.
12. Ibid., 94, 96.
13. Ibid., 232-33.
14. McShane, Life of Raymond Chandler, 121.
15. Rappleye and Becker, All American Mafioso, 54.
16. Int. of Connie Carlson, 10-20-04.
17. Land grab sources:
Davis, Margaret Leslie. Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles.
Hoffman, Abraham. Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981.
Hundly, Norris. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s-1990s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Kahrl, William. Water and Power: The Conflict Over Los Angeles's Water Supply in the Owens Valley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
Sanchez, Rene. "Quenching the Thirst of a Century—Los Angeles May Restore River It Diverted Years Ago."
Washington Post, 6-1-04.
Walton, John. Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
18. Velie, Readers Digest, July 1960.
19. From White's unpublished manuscript, "A Benign Machiavelli of the West," quoted in FBI telex, SAC L.A. to director, 10-22-59.
20. McDougal, Privileged Son, 194-96.
21. Bowron testimony before Kefauver Committee, 12-13-50.
22. James E. Hamilton, L.A. police chief, Kefauver Testimony, 11-15-50.
23. Bowron testimony.
24. Kefauver Committee testimony of Bowron, 12-13-50; Utley, 2-28-51; and Gould, 2-28-51.
25. Donner, Protectors of Privilege, 245-51.
26. Int. of Wanda Goe, 7-25-04.
27. Especially Government Employee 3 (June 1960).
28. Especially the 1952 House Judiciary Committee (Frank Chelf Committee) and the FBI's 551-page file on David Bazelon.
29. Knoedelseder, Stiffed, 76-77.
30. Chicago Tribune, 12-25-47.
31. Chelf memo from Robert Collier, 7-10-52, 82nd-83rd Congress, Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee to Investigate Justice Department, Case Files, Series B, Bazelon File, Box 53, Congressional Legislative Archives, Library of Congress.
32. Arthur A. Engel, "Paul Ziffren: California's Cure for Tired Democratic Blood," Harper's, September 1959.
33. McDougal, Last Mogul, 141.
34. Int. of Connie Carlson, 10-20-04.
35. LAPD officer's memo, "Hotel Hayward," 10-17-50; also L.A. County Clerk Records Book 31268, p. 159. See also "Chicago Links to Los Angeles Gambling Told," Chicago Tribune, 2-28-51.
36. Biographical information on Evans from: Murray, Legacy of Al Capone, esp. 207-16; Russo, Outfit, 61-62, 79, 98, 139, 162, 169, 342-47, 429; Demaris, Captive City, 23, 24, 39, 82, 223; and FBI H Q Humphreys file.
37. James E. Hamilton, L.A. police intel chief, Kefauver testimony, 12-13-50.
38. Greenberg testimony quoted in Murray, Legacy of Al Capone, 35.
39. Peterson letter to Kefauver, 2-19-53.
40. Demaris, Captive City, 223
41. Peterson letter to Goe; Robinson, counsel, Kefauver Committee, 11-1-50.
42. Kefauver Committee staff interview of Evans by H. P. Kiley, 10-30-50.
C h a p t e r Five
1. Chicago Tribune, 8-6-53.
2. Velie, Reader's Digest, July 1960.
3. Chicago Tribune, 5-16-47; and New York Times, 4-25-47, 18.
4. Chelf memo from Stephen Mitchell, 6-15-52, 82nd-83rd Congress, Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee to Investigate Justice Department, Case Files, Series B, Bazelon File, Box 53, Congressional Legislative Archives, Library of Congress.
5. Chelf Committee memo, unsigned, 11-2-51, 82nd-83rd Congress, Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee to Investigate Justice Department, Case Files, Series B, Bazelon File, Box 53, Congressional Legislative Archives, Library of Congress.
6. Telex from Chicago SAC to Hoover (date unreadable). Information on Neil House partnership: Franklin County (OH) Official Records, Deed Books 1358, 1391, 1592. Information on Deshler: Ohio State Corporation Files #215074, 45096.
7. Testimony of H. Richard Niehoff (who attended the meeting with Pritzker) before Chelf Committee, 11-11 52, files of Committee on Judiciary "Chelf" Subcommittee, Gordon Bazelon file.
8. FBI memo, Cleveland office, 9-12-52, Bazelon file.
9. Demaris, Boardwalk Jungle, 269.
10. Peterson, Barbarians, 266.
11. Airtel, Cincinnati to Hoover 11-8-52, Bazelon file.
12. Memo, Rosen to Ladd, 7-22-52, Bazelon file.
13. Hilton obit in New York Times, 1-5-79.
14. Kirkeby citation in Who Was Who in America, vol. 4, 1961-68.
15. Kefauver Committee investigative files, Jules Endler, Box 84.
16. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 86.
17. Greene & Hilton Partnerships: L.A. County Recorder's Office, Book 21063, p. 304, L.A. County Clerks Files.
18. Lait and Mortimer, Chicago: Confidential! 241.
19. FBI HQ Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 10.
20. Kirkeby investments: L.A. County Clerk File # C 150504, C78498; and LAPD intel reports: "Hilton Hotels,"
3-10-58; "National Cuba Hotel Corporation," 1950; "Kirkeby Inc.," 9-24-57.
21. New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement interview report of Marshall Korshak, 10-18-83.
22. Int. of Don Wolfe, 1-5-05.
23. FBI memo from SAC] L.A. to director, "Reactivation of the Capone Gang," 7-22-46.
24. Goe-White notes, 3-29-57, based on 1956 LAPD intel report.
25. Nick Tosches, "The Man Who Kept the Secrets," Vanity Fair, April 1997.
26. Chicago Tribune, 3-5-62; and Variety, 3-7-62.
27. Letter from Robert Goe to Virgil Peterson, 10-1-59. Additional information on Store Properties: L.A. County, Clerk's Office, file C-78498; L.A. County Recorder's Office, Records Books 22746, p. 302; 22872, p. 19, 26099, p. 87, 42495, p. 120; and California State Corporation Commission, file LA-126420.
28. Greenberg memo from W. D. Amis to files, 11-1-50, Kefauver Committee.
29. Demaris, Captive City, 223.
30. Chelf memo to Robert Collier from Mitchell, 8-6-52, 82nd-83rd Congress, Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee to Investigate Justice Department, Case Files, Series B, Bazelon File, Box 53, Congressional LegislativeArchives, Library of Congress.
31. Int. of Andrew Furfaro, 10-20-04.
32. Beck and Williams, California, 458-59; and Cleland, California in Our Time, 248, 250.
33. Friedrich, City of Nets, 102.
34. Washington Post, 2-15-42.
35. Quoted in Friedrich, City of Nets, 112.
36. Testimony of Earl Warren, U.S. Congress, House Select Committee Investigating National Defense, San Francisco Hearing, 77th Cong., 2d sess., 11009-19.
37. Cray, Chief Justice, 430, 478.
38. From the 1989 album Tokyo Rose.
39. Joseph Y. Kurihara, quoted in William Minoru Hohri, Repairing America: An Account of the Movement forJapanese-American Redress (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1988).
40. Winifred Ryder, Tolan Committee hearings, 11667; cited in Richard Lawrence Miller, "Con
fiscations from Japanese- Americans During World War Two," 11-6-01, on the Forfeiture Endangers American Rights Web site.
41. Other sources on internment:
Beck and Williams, California.
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Personal Justice Denied: Report of theCommission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1982) (SuDocs Y3.W19/10:J98).
Daniels, Decision to Relocate.
Kotkin and Grabowicz, California Inc.
Ng, Japanese American Internment.