by Gus Russo
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FBI F i l es
The following FBI files were obtained for this project under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): Anthony Accardo, Jake Arvey, David Bazelon, Charles Bluhdorn, Morris "Moe" Dalitz, John Factor, Al Hart, Murray Humphreys, Marshall Korshak, Sidney Roy Korshak, La Costa Resort, Ronald Reagan, Benjamin Siegel, Jules Stein, and Paul Ziffren.
The FBI's Hoffa Disappearance file was obtained from David Ashenfelter of the Detroit Free Press, and the Ronald Reagan-Clark Kerr FBI file was obtained from the San Francisco Chronicle Web site.
M i s c e l l a n e o u s Documents
Sidney R. Korshak, birth certificate from Chicago Illinois State File #200223.
Sidney R. Korshak, military records.
Sidney R. Korshak, DePaul University Law School grade record.
Sidney R. Korshak, certificate of death, County of Los Angeles, 39619003663.
John Marshall High School Alumni Association records.
1920 Census, Chicago, Illinois.
1930, Fifteenth Census of the United States.
Annual report, Office of Alien Property, Department of Justice, for fiscal year ended June 30, 1949.
Evelle J. Younger, California attorney general, "Organized Crime Control Commission 1st Report," May 1978.
Castle Bank, IRS master list of depositors.
Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, 95th Congress, 2nd sess., March 1979.
Ralph Everett Stolken, certificate of death from County of Riverside, Riverside, California, 2-6-73.
Dorothy Drake, Last Will and Testament from State of New York, County of Nassau, created 11-7-88, DoD 8-9-90.
Hearings before the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, U.S. Senate, 82nd Congress, 1st sess., pursuant to S. Res. 202 (81st Congress), "A Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce"; pt. 5: Illinois, September 9; October 5, 6, 7, 17, 18, 19; December 18, 19,20, 1950; January 5, 19, 1951.
Committee on the Judiciary (House), Subcommittee to Investigate the Department of Justice ("Chelf Committee"), 82nd—83rd Congress; hearings, testimony, and case files. (Also the Frank Chelf Collection at Western Kentucky University.)
Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S.
Senate, 98th Congress, 1st sess., with regards to the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International Union; pt. 3: April 27, 28, 1983.
Hearings before the Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Manage
ment Field, 85th Congress, 2nd sess., pursuant to S. Res. 74 and 221 (85th Congress); pt. 33: March 21; July 8, 9, 10, 11, 1958.
Federal Communications Commission report on the telegraph industry, December 1939.
Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments (House), 80th Congress, 2nd sess., 1948; report and hearings ("Parole Investigation").
Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Senate), 81st Congress, 2nd sess., May 1950; "Transmission of Gambling Information" (race wire) ("McFarland").
Hearings before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (House) regarding proposed legislation to prohibit interstate sale of gambling machines (slots, etc.), 81st Congress, 2nd sess., June 1950.
Securities and Exchange Commission hearings in the matter of Parvin Dohrmann Company, Hearing Order 424, 8-21-69.
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Sidney R. Korshak et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 69 Civ. 4543, 12-8-70.
The President's Commission on Organized Crime, June 24-26, 1985; "Organized Crime and Gambling."
Appeal to the Superior Court of New Jersey from, regarding Playboy-Elsinore Associates application for a casino license, A-4188-81T1, 7-23-84.
Inquiry into the Illinois Racing Board License No. 402, 6-23-70, 7-24-70.
Universal City Studios, Inc., et al. v. RKO General, Inc., et al., Superior Court of the State of California, No. C 125 242, 6-6-75.
U.S. and Michael J. Sheehy, Special Agent of the Internal Revenue Service, v. Marshall Korshak, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, No. 73 C 820, 4-23-73.
U.S. v. Louis Compagna, et al., Federal Court, Southern District, New York.
U.S. v. Schenck & Moscowitz, Federal Court, Southern District, New York. (Supplied by Boris Kostelanetz.)
Sophie White v. Sidney Korshak, Superior Court of Cook County.
Estate of Joseph Glaser, No. 69 P 3458, Docket 160, p. 89, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois Probate Division.
Probate of Jules C. Stein, Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, Case No. P 664540, 8-1-86, 5-18-88, lawyers' fees, 6-1-88.
Peter Vaira and Douglas P. Roller, "Organized Crime and the Labor Unions," report prepared for the Carter White House, 1978.
State of New Jersey Casino Control Commission, "Plenary Licensing Hearing of Hilton New Jersey Corporation," 1984.
Penthouse International Ltd. v. Dalitz, Los Angeles Superior Court Civil Action No. C-162233.
U.S. v. MCA et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, Central Division, Civil Action No. 62-942 WM.
The papers of Robert Goe and Art White (miscellaneous confidential sources).
Journal A r t i c l es
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Chambliss, William J. "Vice, Corruption, Bureaucracy, and Power." Wisconsin Law Review 4 (1971): 1150-73.
Moore, William Howard. "Was Estes Kefauver 'Blackmailed' During the Chicago Crime Hearings?: A Historian's
Perspective." Public Historian 4 (1982): 5-28.
Peterson, Virgil. "Chicago: Shades of Capone." Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science 347 (May 1963): 30-39.
Rosenthal, Erich. "This Was North Lawndale: The Transplantation of a Jewish Community." Jewish SocialStudies 22 (1960): 67-82.
Wanklyn, H. G. "Geographical Aspects of Jewish Settlement East of Germany." Geographical Journal 95 (1940): 175-88.
Witwer, David. "The Scandal of George Scalise: A Case Study in the Rise of Labor Racketeering in the 1930's."
Journal of Social History 36 (2003): 917-40.
A Note on the Author
Gus Russo is the author of The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America and Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK. He is an investigative reporter who has worked for various major television networks, including PBS, where he was a lead reporter for the award-winning Frontline series.
