by John Buntin
Giesler, Jerry. Hollywood Lawyer: The Jerry Giesler Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Gottlieb, Robert, and Irene Wolt. Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times and Its Publishers and Their Impact on Southern California. New York: Putnam, 1977.
Governor’s Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, issued December 5, 1965. Reprinted in Robert Fogelson, ed. Mass Violence in America: The Los Angeles Riots.
Graham, Billy. Just As I Am. New York: Harper SanFrancisco, 1997.
Gregory, Dick. Callus on My Soul: A Memoir. New York: Kensington Books, 2002.
Harnisch, Larry. “Cohen Talks.” Daily Mirror Blog, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/05/cohen_talks.html.
Hayde, Michael. My Name’s Friday: The Unauthorized but True Story of Dragnet and the Films of Jack Webb. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2001.
Hecht, Ben. Unpublished draft of Mickey Cohen biography dated February 6, 1959. Box 7. Ben Hecht Papers, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.
____. A Child of the Century. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954.
Henstell, Bruce. Sunshine and Wealth: Los Angeles in the Twenties and Thirties. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1984.
Hertel, Howard, and Gene Blake. “Parker Hints Muslims Took Part in Rioting.” August 17, 1965.
Hill. Gladwin. “5-Year Term Given to Mickey Cohen; Judge Finds Gambler ’Not So Bad.” New York Times, July 10, 1951.
Hilty, James W. Robert Kennedy, Brother Protector. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.
Hollywood Citizen-News. “Mickey Shifted to New Jail to End ‘Privileges,’ Crowding at County Bastille the Official Cause,” February 8, 1952, CRC scrapbooks.
____. “Parker Hints at Crackdown, Own Cleanup May Forestall Jury Action,” March 27, 1952.
____. “4 Named to Police Board by Poulson,” July 2, 1953.
____. “Hidden Mike Barred, Beverly Bookie Case Upset by High Court,” April 28, 1955.
______ “Mickey Can’t Have L.A. Bar, Officers Rule,” October 10, 1955.
____. Untitled article, February 18, 1963.
____. “Parker Out of Hospital, Will Rest,” March 15, 1965.
Hopkins, Ernest Jerome. Our Lawless Police: A Study of Unlawful Law Enforcement. New York: Viking, 1931.
Horne, Gerald. Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1995.
Horwitt, Sanford. Let Them Call Me Rebel. New York: Knopf, 1989.
Hulse, Jerry. “Mickey Cohen to Wed Striptease Dancer, 22.” Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1959.
Hurewitz, Daniel. Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007.
Houston, Paul. “Police Chief Parker’s Death Mourned in City and State, Meeting May Be Today to Name His Successor.” Los Angeles Times, June 19, 1966.
Irey, Hugh, “An Open Letter to the Mayor: Ex-Official Tells LA Police Stymie.” Los Angeles Mirror, July 13, 1953.
_______ “Police Dept. ‘Split’ Bared.” Los Angeles Mirror, July 14, 1953.
Jacoby, Norman. “Highlights in the Life of the Chief of Police.” Eight Ball, March 1966. William H. Parker Police Foundation archives.
Jennings, Dean. We Only Kill Each Other: The Life and Bad Times of Bugsy Siegel. New York: Penguin, 1992.
_______ “MICKEY COHEN: The Private Life of a Hood.” Saturday Evening Post, parts 1-4, September 20, 1958; September 27, 1958; October 4, 1958; and October, 1958.
________. “Portrait of a Police Chief.” Saturday Evening Post, May 7, 1960.
Johnson, David R. “Siegel, Bugsy.” http://anb.org/articles/20/20-01749.html; American National Biography Online Feb. 2000, access date: July 17, 2006.
Johnston, Alva. “The Cauliflower King-I.” The New Yorker, April 8, 1933.
Kansas City Times. “Noise, Cheers, Applause, Songs—and 3 Candidates.” April 11, 1960, CRC scrapbooks.
Kefauver, Estes. Crime in America. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1951.
Kendall, Sydney. The Queen of the Red-Lights, pamphlet published by W J. Phillips, 1906. Special Collections, UCLA. Los Angeles, CA.
Kennedy, Robert. The Enemy Within. New York: Popular Library, 1960.
King Jr., Martin Luther. “Beyond the Los Angeles Riots.” Saturday Review, November 13, 1965, 33-35, 105.
Klein, Norman. The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory. New York: Verso, 1997.
Kooistra, AnnMarie. “Angels for Sale: The History of Prostitution in Los Angeles, 1880-1940.” University of Southern California Dissertation, August 2003.
Korman, Seymour. “Hoodlum Shot to Death, Victim Ripe for Killing, Police Report.” Chicago Daily Tribune, December 4, 1950.
____. “2 FILM COMICS ADD SPICE TO COHEN’S TRIAL: Jerry Lewis, Skelton on Witness Stand.” Los Angeles Times, May 25,1961.
____. “Convict Cohen a Second Time Tax Offender: Guilty of Beating U.S. Out of $400,000,” Chicago Tribune, July 1, 1961.
Kyle, Palmer. “Porter or Bonelli for City’s Next Mayor.” Los Angeles Times, May 26, 1929.
Lacey, Robert. Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1991.
Leppard, Stan. “Mr. Lucky Thrives on Borrowed Time.” Los Angeles Herald & Express, December 3, 1959.
Lieberman, Paul. “Cop Befriends a Crook” Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2008, http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gangster29-2008oct29,0,4555503,full.story.
____. “Crusaders in the Underworld: The LAPD Takes On Organized Crime.” Los Angeles Times, October 26, 2008.
____. “Noir Justice Catches Up with Mickey Cohen,” November 1, 2008. “Up with Mickey Cohen.” Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2008.
____. “‘Dragnet’ Tales Drawn from LAPD Files Burnished the Department’s Image.” Los Angeles Times, October 30, 2008, http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gangsterwebb30-2008oct30,0,6588206.story.
Lewis, Brad. Hollywood’s Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen. New York: Enigma Books, 2007.
Life magazine. “Trouble in Los Angeles,” January 16, 1950.
Liptak, Adam. “U.S. Is Alone in Rejecting All Evidence If Police Err.” New York Times, July 19, 2008.
Lomax, Almena. “Bradley Makes ‘Loot,’ Just in Time for the Vote on the Police Pay Raise.” Los Angeles Tribune, October 31, 1958.
Los Angeles Daily News. “CONVICT DESCRIBES KILLING BY L.A. COP: Slaying of ‘Peewee’ Lewis Described at San Quentin.” June 7, 1949.
____. “Police Network in 20 Cities to Keep Constant Tab on Mobs.” November 11, 1947.
Los Angeles Examiner. “W H. Parker Heads Fire Police League.” January 7, 1949.
__________. “Grand Jury to Attack Police Trials System.” September 7, 1949.
____. “Law for Policemen Took,” editorial, November 14, 1949.
____. “Wild Party by 100 Police Described, Youth Tells of Beatings at Police Yule Party,” March 19, 1952.
____. “An Inadequate Answer,” editorial, May 2, 1952.
____. “Chief Parker Expected to Quit in Bowron Row,” May 27, 1952.
________. “Admits Slaying Bookie, Claims It Was ‘Self Defense,’” December 9, 1959.
____. “Yorty, Parker Clash: Chief Denies Charge of Ballot ‘Gestapo,’” June 9, 1961.
Los Angeles Herald. “Committee of Safety Makes Its Report,” November 8, 1900.
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. “Bowron Denies Parker Ouster,” May 27, 1952.
____. “All Election Promises Kept, Yorty Asserts. But Black Leaders Flat Contradict His Claim That He Never Promised to Fire Chief Parker,” July 9, 1962.
____. “‘Pseudoleaders Who Can’t Lead,’ Blamed by Parker,” August 15, 1965.
____. “Riot Hearings Boil, Parker, Bradley in Row Over ‘Mystery Man,’” September 14, 1965.
____. “The Case of Earl Kynette,” July 8, 1966.
____. “Friends, Critics Praise Parker,” J
uly 18, 1966.
____. “6000 Pay Last Tribute to Parker, Chief Eulogized in Congress,” July 21, 1966.
Los Angeles Herald-Express. “Cohen ‘Safe’ in U.S. Cell, Moved to Federal Pen, Brutality by Police Told,” February 14, 1952.
____. “‘Cops So Drunk They Fought Each Other to Beat Us,’” March 19, 1952.
______ “Charge 750 Police in Office Jobs, Quiz Chief,” May 5, 1954.
_______ “Parker Hits Influx of Parolees to L.A.: Tells City Council of Huge Rise in Crime,” March 13, 1959.
____. “Parker Rejects Mr. K. Gripe, Russ Police OKd Ban on Disneyland Tour,” September 21, 1959.
____. “Chief Parker May Head US Crime Probers,” December 22, 1960.
Los Angeles Mirror. “Mayor Investigates Honorary L.A.P.D. Badges,” October 28, 1938, via Larry Harnisch’s Daily Mirror blog (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/10/mayor-investiga.html).
____. “‘Innocent’ in Cussing, Says Mickey Cohen,” August 31, 1949.
____. “Worton ‘Man of the Year’ in Mirror Mailbag Vote,” December 30, 1949.
____. “Full Story of Mob Shooting of Cohen.” July 20, 1949.
________. “Move for Action on L.A. Police Brutality Charges.” February 26, 1952.
____. “6 on Trial Tell More Police Brutalities.” March 6, 1952.
____. “Parker Clams Up on Jury Quiz.” March 27, 1952.
____. “Grand Jury Turns Heat on Parker, Report Hits Police Dept. Conditions.” April 29, 1952.
____. “Bare Yule Police Brutality Transcript.” May 13, 1952.
____. “Speaking of Snoopers.” January 19, 1953.
____. “Chief Shrugs at Claim of Cop Brutality, Police Brutality Gets Brush-off by Chief Parker,” February 27, 1952.
____. “PARKER FORCED TO ACT ON BRUTALITY: Cop Brutality Quiz Demanded by L.A. Judge.” March 13, 1952.
____. “Florabel Muir Reporting,” March 20, 1952.
____. “Bloody Christmas—One Year Later,” editorial, December 6, 1952.
____. “Chicago Hoodlum Chased by Cops, Goes to ‘Vegas,’” January 16, 1953.
____. “Give Police Board, Not the Chief, More Power.” July 2, 1953.
____. “Cal. Employe [sic] Accused as Bunco Go-Between.” September 2, 1953.
____. “Cohen Jailed for Failure to Register,” September 26, 1957, accessed via the Los Angeles Times’s invaluable Daily Mirror blog (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/mickey_cohen/index.html), October 12, 2008.
____. “Brutal Tactics Told at Hearing,” January 26, 1960.
____. “Big Squeeze Boosts Police for Kennedy,” July 11, 1960.
____. “Criminals Laugh at LA Police, Says Chief. Underworld Rejoices in Ruling,” May 31, 1955.
Los Angeles Mirror-Daily News. “Telephone Tap Defended by Chief Parker,” March 7, 1955.
____. “Police Instincts of Bill Parker Flourished Early,” June 18, 1957.
Los Angeles Mirror-News. “PARKER FORCED TO ACT ON BRUTALITY, Cop Brutality Quiz Demanded by L.A. Judge,” March 13, 1952.
____. “Police Brutality Probe Is Overdue,” March 14, 1952.
____. “Lawmen Blast High Court Order to Identify Informants in Arrests: Ruling Termed Crippling in Drive on Dope,” October 2, 1958.
____. “Shooting Takes Place Six Feet From Mickey,” December 3, 1958.
____. “Keep Cool with Mr. K, Chief Parker tells L.A.,” September 7, 1959.
____. “Cohen Suspect in Slaying, Restaurant’s Guests Flee After Shooting,” December 3, 1959.
____. “Racial Bias Accusations False, Says Chief Parker. Explains Police Problem,” January 27, 1960.
Los Angeles Police Departments records, City Records Center (CRC), Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Sentinel, May 17, 1962.
Los Angeles Times. “Detective McAfee is Exonerated,” September 23, 1916.
____. “Plans Submitted for Fine Theater: Picture Palace to Follow Elaborate Spanish Architecture,” July 11, 1920.
____. “The White Spot Glistens Brightly,” July 17, 1921.
____. “The Soul of the City,” June 24, 1923.
____. “Oaks Names Kent Parrot, Charges Lawyer Interfered in Police Department, ‘Dictatorial and Threatening,’” July 29, 1923.
____. “Kent Parrot Accused by Richards as ‘Sinister,’ Retiring Harbor Commissioner Names Him as Would-Be Boss,” August 1, 1923.
____. “Dark Trails to City Hall are Uncovered: Now Negro Politicians Make and Unmake Police Vice Squad Told in Heath Case,” August 17, 1923.
____. “Shall We Re-Elect Kent Parrot?” April 23, 1925.
____. “Bledsoe Hurls Defy at Cryer, Challenges Parrot’s Status as De-Facto Mayor,” April 23, 1925.
____. “Champion ‘Ag-inner’ of Universe Is Shuler, Belligerent Local Pastor Holds All Records for Attacks Upon Everybody, Everything,” June 1, 1930.
____. “Crawford Career Hectic, Politician Gained Wide Notoriety as ‘Pay-Off Man’ in Morris Lavine Extortion Case,” May 21, 1931.
____. “ARE GANGSTERS BUILDING ANOTHER CHICAGO HERE?: Police Officially Deny It; Admit Privately Facts,” March 29, 1931.
____. “Penny Money At Cafe: Clinton ‘Caveteria’ Caters to Customers of Lean Purse,” October 14, 1932.
____. “Complete Vote Received for Thursday’s Election,” September 30, 1934.
____. “Chief Shifts 28 Officers in New Shake-Up of Police,” March 9, 1939.
____. “Davis Defends Police Spying at Bombing Trial, Bitter Clashes Mark Chief’s Day on Stand,” April 27, 1939.
____. “Police Due for Shake-up Tomorrow, Chief Announces: New Divisions Will Be Organized and Shifts Made of Many Uniformed Officers in Sweeping Program,” November 30, 1939.
____. “Policewoman Implicates Sgt. Stoker in Burglary, Love for Vice Squad Man Admitted by Audrey [sic] Davis,” July 3, 1949.
____. “Murder Plot Story Filed: Testimony Transcript in Siegel Case Gives Gang,” August 31, 1940.
____. “Siegel Denies Buchalter Aid: Film Colony Figure Testifies on Removal Fight,” May 27, 1941.
____. “Plunge Fatal to Gangster, State Witness Against Buchalter and Others Attempts to Escape,” November 13, 1941.
____. “Japanese Aliens’ Roundup Starts: F.B.I. Hunting Down 300 Subversives and Plans to Hold 3000 Today,” December 8, 1941.
____. “Little Tokyo Banks and Concerns Shut, Even Saloons Padlocked; Extra Police on Duty to Prevent Riots,” December 9, 1941.
____. “Round Up of Japanese Aliens in Southland Now Totals 500: Officers, Working with F.B.I., Continue Hunt; Asiatic, Who Had Pledged Loyalty, Found with Guns,” December 9, 1941.
____. “Widow of Victim Heard at Murder Trial of Siegel: Heard Shots Killing Mate,” January 27, 1942.
____. “Siegel and Carbo Identified as Murder Aides, Tannenbaum Tells Killing,” January 28, 1942.
____. “Siegel’s Attic Capture Told, Witnesses at Death Trial Describe Hunt in Suspect’s Mansion,” January 31, 1942.
____. “Police Officer Keyes Resigns Under Attack,” July 26, 1942.
____. “Warren Picks First of Crime Commissions: Jeffers and Mudd Among Those Named Under New State Law,” October 22, 1947.
____. “Year Passes but Murder Not Solved: Search for Woman’s Slayer Recalls Other Mysteries,” February 14, 1949.
____. “Bowron Asks Grand Jury Action in Police Scandal, Two Officers Suspended; Cohen Posts $100,000 Bail,” March 23, 1949.
____. “Cohen Introduces Sound Recorder,” May 6, 1949.
____. “Cohen to Testify in Partner’s Case: Deputy Sheriff Denies Policeman’s Story That Meltzer Displayed Gun at Arrest,” May 10, 1949.
____. “New Police Chief on Job, to Tell Program in Week,” July 1, 1949.
____. “Chief Names Staff Inspector in Top Level Police Changes: Parker Given Number Two Post,” July 15, 1949.
____. “Worton Shifts 33 in Police Shake-Up: Top Flight Officer Named Intelligence Aide to Chief i
n Reorganization Move,” August 4, 1949.
____. “Hidden Microphones Hear Cohen Secrets, Police Device Records Intimate Talks in Home,” August 16, 1949.
____. “Police Shift Offices Due to City Hall Jam,” August 19, 1949.
____. “Parker Appointed New Police Chief Head, Patrol Division Head Promoted in Climax to Hot Battle Over Worton’s Successor,” August 3, 1950.
____. “Parker Declares City Is White Spot of Nation,” August 9, 1950.
____. “Mad Gunman Captured, Mickey Cohen Tells Inside Story of L.A.,” November 18, 1950.
____. “Cohen Deals Going Before Jury Today, Federal Inquirers Expected to Hear of Borrowings,” February 9, 1951.
____. “Truman Speeds War on Crime; Mickey Cohen Pay-off Charged, Racketeers’ Tax Returns to Be Eyed,” June 2, 1951.
____. “Cohen Profits Told as Tax Case Opens, Federal Prosecutor Attacks Gangster’s Story of Loans,” June 5, 1951.
____. “Mickey Cohen Gets 5 Years, $10,000 Fine,” July 10, 1951.
____. “Newman and Worton Quit Police Board,” July 18, 1951.
____. “Chief Parker Hits Brutality Stories,” February 28, 1952.
____. “F.B.I. Probing L.A. Police Brutality,” March 14, 1952.
____. “Under Table, Didn’t See Slayer, Cohen Says,” March 29, 1952, 30.
____. “Grand Jury Indicts Eight Officers in Beating Case,” April 23, 1952.
____. “36 L.A. Policemen Face Discipline for Brutality,” June 17, 1952.
____. “Verbal Battles by Lawyers Rock Public Housing Quiz,” May 21, 1953.
____. “Poulson Pledges War on Gangsters: Mayor-Elect Maps Plans with Parker; Shake-Up of Police Commission Indicated,” June 17, 1953.
____. “Police Warned on Secret Wire Taps, Officers Subject to Liability for Illegal Entry, Brown Says,” September 4, 1954.
____. “‘Planted’ Fur Story Acquits Malouf in Theft,” April 7, 1955.
____. “Judge Rules He Cannot Stop Police Microphones, Lacks Jurisdiction on Use of Public Funds for Installation, McCoy Says,” July 1, 1955.
____. “Mickey Cohen Sees Billy Graham, Talks on Religion, Former Mobster Goes to N.Y. for Conference,” March 2, 1957.
____. “Parker Seeks Grand Jury Action Over Cohen Blast,” May 21, 1957.
____. “Cohen Attends Graham Rally in New York,” May 22, 1957.
