by John Buntin
____. “Cohen Booked for Not Signing Traffic Ticket,” May 26, 1957.
____. “Mickey Cohen’s Traffic Trial Off to Salty Start, Policemen Who Made Arrest Testify that Defendant Delayed Autos at Intersection,” July 11, 1957.
____. “Mickey Cohen Takes Manuscript to Author,” August 4, 1957.
____. “Cohen Found Guilty, Gets $11 Traffic Fine,” November 12, 1957.
____. “Jury Acquits Mickey Cohen on Disturbing Peace Charge, Ex-Convict Ruling May Affect Case,” December 17, 1957.
____. “Mickey Cohen Proud of Actress in Murder Quiz, Admits Liz Renay, Questioned in Anastasia Case, Loaned Him $10,000 He’s Repaying,” February 27, 1958.
____. “Chicago Attorney Glad to Stake Mickey Cohen, Admits $22,500 Loan; Says Ex-Gambler Stands to Make Fortune on Life Story,” June 9, 1958.
____. “Girl Friend of Mickey Cohen Quizzed Again, Won’t Tell Treasury Agent About Gifts from Bodyguard of Slain Anastasia,” September 10, 1958.
____. “Liz Renay Indicted on Perjury Charges: Mickey Cohen’s Actress Friend Accused of Lying About Raising $5,500 in Loans,” March 13, 1959.
____. “Under Table, Didn’t See Slayer, Cohen Says,” March 29, 1959.
____. “Poulson Cuts Police Budget by $6 Million, Commissioner Promptly Warns Mayor That City Faces Criminal Invasion,” May 1, 1959.
____. “Report Hints Cohen Had Part in Slayings,” June 16, 1959.
____. “Police Board Member Flays Parker, Quits,” June 19, 1959.
____. “Parker Plans Security for Khrushchev Visit,” September 7, 1959.
____. “Mickey Cohen Jailed in Murder of Bookie,” December 4, 1959.
____. “Slayer of Bookmaker Surrenders to Police,” December 9, 1959.
____. “Parker Angrily Denies Racial Discrimination: Presents Charts of City Districts, Tells of Undesirables Shipped into Los Angeles,” January 27, 1960.
____. “Council Hears Parker’s Recording on ‘Wild Tribes,’ Chief Denies Slur, Refuses to Apologize,” February 3, 1960.
____. “Demagoguery Loses a Round,” February 5, 1960.
____. “Witnesses Deny They Saw Whalen Shooting,” March 11, 1960.
____. “This Is Not Alabama,” editorial, June 1, 1960.
____. “The Bright Badge of the L.A.P.D,” editorial, August 9, 1960.
____. “MAD GUNMAN CAPTURED, Mickey Cohen Tells Inside Story of L.A., Bland Gangster Spars with Counsel in Quiz; Sheriff Also Testifies,” November 18, 1960.
____. “Parker Hails Kennedy as Crime Foe,” December 17, 1960.
____. “Ben Hecht Sees Cohen as Top Book Material,” May 18, 1961.
____. “Cohen’s Story Contract Presented at His Trial,” May 19, 1961.
____. “$9,000 Advance for Cohen, Screenplay Told,” May 20, 1961.
____. “Picked for Cohen Role in Film, Skelton says,” May 25, 1961.
____. “Two Cited Under Lynch Law After Park Riot,” June 2, 1961.
____. “Candy Barr Tells About Being Cohen’s ‘Sweetie’: Jailed Stripper Testifies How Ex-Hoodlum Helped Her Flee US. to Mexico Hideaway,” June 3, 1961.
____. “$200,000 Tax Writeoff Offer to Cohen Told,” June 8, 1961.
____. “US. Rests Cohen Income Tax Case,” June 17, 1961.
____. “Cohen Defense Claims He Was Losing Money,” June 24, 1961.
____. “Six Muslim Suspects Held in Row at Market,” September 3, 1961.
____. “Mickey Cohen Jaunty Again—in Volkswagen,” October 20, 1961.
____. “Mickey Cohen, 4 Others Indicted in Murder Plot, All Accused in Dec. 2, 1959 Slaying of Jack Whalen in Sherman Oaks Cafe,” November 1, 1961.
____. “Mickey Cohen Murder Charges Dismissed,” March 19, 1962.
____. “Officers Out to Get Cohen, LoCigno Says,” March 22, 1962.
____. “Under Table, Didn’t See Slayer, Cohen Says,” March 29, 1962.
____. “Cohen’s Defense Closes Murder Trial Argument,” April 5, 1962.
____. “Lo Cigno Rules Guilty of Manslaughter,” November 15, 1962.
____. “Parker Assails Bishop’s View of Negro Policy,” January 18, 1963.
____. “Special Police Groups Press Fight on Crime, Cities Combat Increased Felonies with Crack Units; in Los Angeles It’s ‘Metro,’” February 23, 1964.
____. Sentences Reimposed on 11 Black Muslims,” March 3, 1965.
____. “Ex-Sergeant Strange Praises Chief Parker, Remembers Sincerity,” July 20, 1966.
____. “Politics and the LAPD,” April 11, 1969.
Los Angeles Tribune. “Truman Speeds War on Crime; Mickey Cohen Pay-off Charged, Racketeers’ Tax Returns to Be Eyed.” June 2, 1950.
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____. “‘Rousting’ System Earns Curses of the Rum-Runners, Chief Davis’s Raids Keep Whiskey Ring in Harried State,” Los Angeles Times, August 22, 1926.
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____. “Mickey Cohen Cashes In on His Glaring Notoriety,” April 3, 1951.
____. “A.B.C.-TV Retracts Remarks by Cohen,” May 27, 1957.
____. “Mickey Cohen Sues U.S.,” February 18, 1964.
____. “Los Angeles Police Chief: William Henry Parker 3d,” August 14, 1965.
____. “Lou Stillman, Legendary Boxing Figure, Is Dead,” obituary, August 20, 1969.
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____. January 7, 1953, memo to the Board of Police Commissioners, Subject: Progress Report, August 9, 1950 to January 1, 1953. LAPD records. Originally CRC Box 35314, now Escobar collection, Tucson, AZ.
____. “Responses to Questions of the Los Angeles City Council Concerning a Juvenile Gang Attack on a Citizen in Downtown Los Angeles,” December 8, 1953. Originally CRC Box 35324, now Escobar collection, Tucson, AZ.
____. Parker letter, January 29, 1954, to Don Thompson: 1953 county grand
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____. “Laws on Wiretapping,” letter to the Los Angeles Times, January 23, 1955.
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____. Letter from the Board of Civil Service Commissioners, September 28, 1926.
____. “Memorandum for the Adjutant General, Subject: Relief from Active Duty,” undated.
____. Letter from Arthur Hohmman to HQ Los Angeles Officer Procurement District, February 19, 1943.
____. Letter from Captain Robert L. Dennis to HQ, Los Angeles Officer Procurement District, February 23, 1943.
____. Col. Jesse Miller, Director, Military Government Division, to First Lt. William Parker, May 11, 1943.
____. Letter from C. B. Horrall to Capt. W. H. Parker, June 26, 1945.
____. “Police Post Gets Membership Drive Trophy.” L.A. Fire and Police Protective League News, 1947.
____. “Parker’s the One in ’51, Los Angeles Police Post 381, American Legion, unanimously presents William H. ‘Bill’ Parker for the office of COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION, DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA, for the year 1951-52,” August 1950, Number Three.
____. “Facts on Chief Parker’s Exam Records,” Assistant General Manager Civil Service, June 1, 1966.
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____. “Kennedy’s ‘Pad’ in L.A.—Dirty Shirts and Disorder,” July 15, 1960.
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____. “L.A. Negroes Only Part of Over-All Minority Problem: Concentration of Race Here Is Fifth Largest in United States.” Los Angeles Times, January 24, 1961.
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____. “Americana,” January 31, 1949.
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