Mob Roundup in Brooklyn
May 20, 1963 - In the wake of an early morning shooting attack on two Profaci mobsters, Brooklyn detectives last night rounded up the...
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May 16, 2023
Comedian Lenny Bruce Convicted of Heroin Possession
May 16, 1963 - Comedian Lenny Bruce (pictured left with John Marshall, his attorney) was convicted by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury...
May 13, 2023
Dr. Sheppard Faces Legal Setback
May 13, 1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected today a plea from Dr. Sam Sheppard (pictured right in 1954) that he be allowed to take a...
May 13, 2023
Belmondo and French Policeman Face Charges after Violent Incident
May 13, 1963 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, the movie actor (“Breathless”), was charged in Paris today with having insulted a policeman, and the...
May 12, 2023
Movie Tough Guy Lawrence Tierney Arrested Again
May 12, 1963 - Former movie tough guy Lawrence Tierney (pictured top in 1951 and bottom in 1958 after assaulting two NYPD officers), out...
May 8, 2023
New Strangling Victim in Boston
May 8, 1963 - A young music teacher was found strangled tonight in her apartment just off Harvard Square, confronting the police of the...
May 3, 2023
Auschwitz Trial Opens in Frankfurt
May 3, 1963 - Twenty-four persons have been charged with the murder of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Jews, at the Auschwitz...
Apr 23, 2023
Prison Break in Michigan, Four Hardened Convicts At Large
Apr. 23, 1963 - Four hardened criminals, two of them convicted murderers, escaped today from the maximum-security section of the nation’s...
Apr 16, 2023
NYPD To Continue “Operation Decoy”
Apr. 16, 1963 - “Operation Decoy,” the New York City program in which policemen dress as women to trap muggers, perverts, and rapists,...
Apr 14, 2023
Mentally Disturbed High Schooler Charged Admits Murdering Olympic Skier
Apr. 14, 1963 - A mentally disturbed high school boy who Utah authorities said tried to strangle a 15-year-old Salt Lake City girl less...
Apr 13, 2023
Arrest Made in Murder of Olympic Skier
Apr. 13, 1963 - A lanky, 18-year-old high school youth was booked tonight for the dismemberment slaying of skier Sonja McCaskie in Reno,...
Apr 11, 2023
🚨Assassination Attempt Made on Former Maj. Edwin Walker
🚨Apr. 11, 1963 - Former Major General Edwin A. Walker was the victim of an attempted rifle assassination at about 9 p.m. last night...
Apr 6, 2023
Nashville Millionaire Killed with Samurai Sword, Wife Held for Questioning
Apr. 6, 1963 - Financier John B. Wilson died with a Japanese samurai sword through his heart in his Nashville mansion today, and police...
Apr 6, 2023
Olympic Skier Brutally Murdered in Reno
Apr. 6, 1963 - The dismembered body of a young British Olympic skier was found last night in her Reno, Nev., apartment, police announced...
Apr 4, 2023
Brooklyn Hoods Face Wrath of Government and Underworld for Attack on FBI Man
Apr. 4, 1963 - Four Brooklyn hoodlums accused of attacking and stomping an FBI agent outside a church just before the funeral of Carmello...
Apr 3, 2023
FBI Agent Beaten by Mafia Thugs
Apr. 3, 1963 - An FBI agent was severely beaten and stripped of his pistol today while observing a funeral gathering outside a Brooklyn...
Mar 26, 2023
Comedian Lenny Bruce: “Rather Get Gas Chamber in L.A. than Jail in Chicago”
Mar. 26, 1963 - Lenny Bruce, the comedian, surrendered today in a Los Angeles court on a fugitive warrant issued in Chicago after his...
Mar 23, 2023
Singer Johnny Mathis Slugged in Vegas
Mar. 23, 1963 - Singer Johnny Mathis, 27, ran away from a Las Vegas hotel because “he was frightened and scared” after a card dealer...
Mar 22, 2023
Missing Persons Report Filed on Johnny Mathis
Mar. 22, 1963 - A missing persons report was filed with the police today on singer Johnny Mathis, 27, who reportedly hasn’t been seen...
Mar 22, 2023
Governor Connally Grants Parole to Candy Barr
Mar. 22, 1963 - Texas Governor John B. Connally today granted parole to former Dallas striptease dancer Candy Barr (pictured at Dallas...
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