L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City

by John Buntin

  Files identified as LAPD departmental records are stored at the CRC but are not available to the general public.

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  Baker, Erwin. “Mills Tells Parker to Explain Raid: Chief Denies Councilman Has Right to Quiz Him on Muslims,” Los Angeles Times, November 9, 1965.

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  Caldwell, B. R. Letter to HQ, Los Angeles Procurement District, February 23, 1943. William H. Parker Police Foundation archives.

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  California Eagle. “Police Investigation Points Up Brutality In Minority Community.” June 30, 1949.

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  ____. The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely. New York: The Modern Library, 1995.

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  ____. Memorandum to the City Council from the Police Commission, “Subject: Council File No. 89512,” August 6, 1959, CRC.

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  ____. “Lid Off L.A.!” Los Angeles Mirror-News, February 15, 1952.

  ______. “A Cool Customer in a Hot Spot.” Los Angeles Times, April 15, 1962.

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  Cohen letter to Hecht, March 22, 1964. Newberry Library, Chicago.

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  Demaris, Ovid. The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno. New York: Times Books, 1981.

  Dixon, Jane. “Problems of a Working Girl: Queer Aspects of Human Nature Exhibited to Quiet and Watchful Theater Workers, Says Love Is Catching ‘Like the Measles.’” Los Angeles Times, July 15, 1919.

  Domanick, Joe. To Protect and to Serve: The LAPD’s Century of War in the City of Dreams. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.

  Donner, Frank. The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America’s Political Intelligence System. New York: Random House, 1980.

  Escobar, Edward. Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican-Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department 1900-1945. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999.

  ____ “Bloody Christmas and the Irony of Police Professionalism: The Los Angeles Police Department, Mexican Americans, and Police Reform in the 1950s,” Pacific Historical Review 72, 2.

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  Federal Bureau of Investigation, Freedom of Information Act files: Meyer Harris Cohen, File #7-HQ-5908, 58-HQ-6129, 92-HQ-3156; James Dragna; William H. Parker (see in particular August 2, 1963, memo, Parker FBI file, for the origins of the FBI feud); Johnny Roselli; Bugsy Siegel; and Lana Turner.

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  Fogelson, Robert. Big City Police. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977.

  ________ The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.

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  Frawley, Harry. “Police Board Will Use More Power—Mayor.” Valley Times, August 8, 1950.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Hulse, Jerry. “Mickey Cohen to Wed Striptease Dancer, 22.” Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1959.

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  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.

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  _______ “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.

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  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.

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nbsp; ____. “The Case of Earl Kynette,” July 8, 1966.

  ____. “Friends, Critics Praise Parker,” July 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.