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I am retired from the Los Angeles Times

November 18, 1959: Paul V. Coates – Confidential File

Posted on November 18, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 18, 1959: Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill) responds to taxpayers’ fury over a resolution to take all 100 senators to Hawaii for its statehood ceremonies, Paul Coates writes. Continue reading →

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November 18, 1958: Mickey Cohen pal back from the dead

Posted on November 18, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 18, 1959: Mickey Cohen pal is back from the dead! Continue reading →

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George Hodel: Ask Me Anything, November 2025

Posted on November 18, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 18, 2025: This month’s Ask Me Anything on George Hodel and Steve Hodel in the Black Dahlia case. Continue reading →

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November 18, 1941: Private Detective Held in ‘Love’ Killing

Posted on November 18, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 18, 1941: Private detective Edwin Crumplar is charged in ‘love slaying’ of Irene Wilder, who died of an infection after Crumplar shot her in the stomach. Jimmie Fidler says Alan Ladd’s romance with Sally Wadsworth won’t please Paramount. Continue reading →

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November 17, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on November 17, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 17, 1959: In a school project, a boy plants radishes in a circle rather than rows. Why? That’s how you get them at the market, he says. Now a commercial grower is trying the method to ease stoop labor, Matt Weinstock says. Continue reading →

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November 17, 1959: Paul V. Coates – Confidential File

Posted on November 17, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 17, 1959: Paul Coates has the story of Beat poet Jerry Baker, arrested while hitchhiking on his way to a coffeehouse. Continue reading →

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November 17, 1968: The ‘Heidi Game’ remembered

Posted on November 17, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 17, 1968: NBC preempts the last moments of a game between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets to air “Heidi,” and the infamous “Heidi Game” was born. Continue reading →

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November 17, 1947: Miracle Red Toothpaste Tints Gums a Healthy Pink

Posted on November 17, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 17, 1947: Miracle toothpaste colors gums a healthy pink! Yellow teeth look white! Continue reading →

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November 17, 1941: Women Reporters

Posted on November 17, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 17, 1941: Reporter Mary Shaw Leader is posthumously honored for covering Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Leader walked 15 miles to cover Lincoln’s speech. Continue reading →

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Movieland Unsuitable Foreign Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 17, 2025 by lmharnisch

For Monday, we have a mysterious fellow in an unsuitable foreign mystery film. Continue reading →

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November 17, 1907: A #MeToo Moment in the Monkey House; Opera Tenors in Trouble

Posted on November 17, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 17, 1907: A detective in Central Park’s monkey house arrests Leon Cazauran, brought to New York to sing in “Thais” at Oscar Hammerstein’s Manhattan Operahouse, and his companion, Claude Modjeska, “a copper-colored young man,” The Times says. The charge was attempting to corrupt small boys Continue reading →

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November 16, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on November 16, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 16, 1959: A new teacher’s night out to celebrate a career change has an unusual twist, Matt Weinstock writes. Continue reading →

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November 16, 1959: Paul V. Coates – Confidential File

Posted on November 16, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 16, 1959: Erle Stanley Gardner tells Paul Coates: “The basic problem facing law enforcement today is one of public relations.” Continue reading →

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November 16, 1958: I Want to Live — The Barbara Graham murder case

Posted on November 16, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 16, 1958: Five years after the execution of Barbara Graham in the Mabel Monahan killing, the story comes to the screen in the Robert Wise film “I Want to Live!” by Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz, starring Susan Hayward in an Oscar-winning performance. Continue reading →

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November 16, 1947: Alvira Earp, Widow of Frontier Lawman Virgil Earp

Posted on November 16, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 16, 1947: Alvira Earp, widow of Virgil Earp and sister-in-law of U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 98. Continue reading →

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November 16, 1907: Husband in Elaborate Disguise Shoots Estranged Wife on Streetcar

Posted on November 16, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 16,1907: Frederick Cook faces trial for shooting his estranged wife on a streetcar, disguising himself so she wouldn’t recognize him. Continue reading →

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November 15, 1981: Still Unsolved — Aspiring Screenwriter Killed in Hit-Run Staged to Look Like Rape

Posted on November 15, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 15, 1981: The mysterious death of Sue Latham, a cyclist who was hit by a car while unjamming the gears on her bike, but dragged to a construction site and partially undressed to make it look like she was raped. Continue reading →

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November 15, 1943: Riot at Tule Lake Internment Camp?

Posted on November 15, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 15, 1943: Something appears to be going on at the Tule Lake internment camp, but it’s unclear from contemporary coverage exactly what it was. Continue reading →

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November 15, 1909: Finds ‘Husband’ Is Woman

Posted on November 15, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 15, 1909: Dr. Alice Bush of Oakland sues for divorce, charging that her husband, R.K. Morgan, failed to disclose something rather important. Continue reading →

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November 15, 1907: Charles Mulford Robinson Drafts a Los Angeles of the Future

Posted on November 15, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 15, 1907: Charles Mulford Robinson proposes a grand boulevard for downtown Los Angeles, from a proposed Union Station ending at a new public library and art gallery. And a new City Hall. Continue reading →

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