Category Archives: Mickey Cohen

Mickey Cohen talks

Posted on May 21, 2007 by lmharnisch

Mirror critic Hal Humphrey’s take on the Mickey Cohen-Mike Wallace affair.

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Confidential: Tells the Facts and Names the Names

Posted on May 20, 2007 by lmharnisch

The Mirror scores a jailhouse interview with L. Ewing Scott, plus one of Confidential magazine’s main informants, Francesca De Scaffa attempts suicide again. According to news reports, De Scaffa was so eager to be a Confidential source that she was … Continue reading →

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Cohen talks

Posted on May 19, 2007 by lmharnisch

"I killed nobody that didn’t deserve killing. In all of these here killings there was no alternative. You couldn’t call them cold-blooded killings…. It was either my life or theirs."     Mickey Cohen     May 19, 1957 Los … Continue reading →

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Voices

Posted on April 17, 2007 by lmharnisch

Cliff Dektar was a copy boy for The Times in 1943. He worked for the Mirror from 1950 to 1956, when he left for ABC-TV. On Jan. 2, 1951, Photographer Bud Gray and I were working the overnight Mirror radio … Continue reading →

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Voices

Posted on April 13, 2007 by lmharnisch

          In 1957, saxophonist Dave Pell was the leader of the Dave Pell Octet, the house band at the Crescendo on the Sunset Strip. He recently reminisced about performing there with comedian Lenny Bruce. Pell performs once … Continue reading →

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