Aug 24, 2021Two Brooklyn Racketeers Indicted for Assault on Cop Aug. 24, 1961 - Anthony (Tony Shots) Abbatemarco, 39, and Giovanni Seimone, 48, were indicted today for felonious assault with intent to...
Aug 22, 2021Actor and Musician 'Spade' CooleyGets Life Sentence for Murdering WifeAug. 22, 1961 - Donnell Cooley (right), the musician and actor better known as Spade Cooley, was spared the gas chamber and sentenced to...
Aug 21, 2021Six Arraigned as Witnesses in Shooting of Cop, Attempted Strangling of RacketeerAug. 21, 1961 - In Brooklyn today, six men were arraigned as material witnesses in the critical shooting of a policeman and the attempted...
Aug 21, 2021Attacks on NYPD Officers Increasing in Incidence and ViciousnessAug. 21, 1961 - In the first 6 months of this year, 1,171 New York City policemen were attacked while trying to make arrests. From July 1...