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Mar 21, 2023

Last Prisoners Removed from Alcatraz

Mar. 21, 1963 - The Federal prison on Alcatraz Island became a hollow, echoing shell today with the removal of the last 27 prisoners...

Mar 15, 2023

American Opera Soprano Murdered in Rome

Mar. 15, 1963 - A glamorous American opera soprano clad in a scarlet nightgown was found shot dead today in her room in a fashionable...

Mar 14, 2023

Comedian Lenny Bruce Sentenced to Prison

Mar. 14, 1963 - Lenny Bruce, 37-year-old comedian, was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison and fined $1,000 after being...

Mar 13, 2023

Murderer Nathan Leopold Released After 33 Years in Prison

Mar. 13, 1963 - Nathan Leopold (second from left in 1924), a man who has spent his adult life atoning for a crime committed in his youth,...

Mar 11, 2023

Two Ex-Convicts Confess to Kidnapping L.A. Police Detectives

Mar. 11, 1963 - Two former convicts confessed today to kidnapping two Hollywood police detectives, but each accused each the other of...

Mar 10, 2023

Two Los Angeles Policemen Kidnapped, One Murdered

Mar. 10, 1963 - Ian James Campbell (pictured), a 31-year-old Los Angeles policeman, was kidnapped with a fellow officer, Karl Hettinger,...

Mar 8, 2023

Hoffa: Let’s Investigate Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy

Mar. 8, 1963 - James R. Hoffa, the Teamsters Union boss, proposed an investigation of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy today “because...

Mar 6, 2023

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Backs California A.G. on Drug-Smuggling Prevention

Mar. 6, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (pictured with John F. Kennedy Jr.) assured California Attorney General Stanley Mosk...

Mar 1, 2023

Anthony “Tough Tony” Anastasio Dead at 57

Mar. 1, 1963 - Anthony Anastasio (pictured right in 1957), labor boss of the Brooklyn waterfront, died early today at Long Island...

Feb 25, 2023

NYC Police Commissioner Releases Murder Statistics

Feb. 25, 1963 - Murder is mainly an indoor crime in New York City. It is harder on wives than on husbands. Saturday is the deadliest day...

Feb 24, 2023

Hollywood Screenwriter Admits Stabbing Wife to Death

Feb. 24, 1963 - Funeral services were conducted today for Mrs. Dolores Heideman, 32, as police prepared to charge her husband Leonard,...

Feb 22, 2023

Prominent Hollywood Screenwriter Murders Wife

Feb. 22, 1963 - “I had a dream…I was acting out the dream.” Leonard M. Heideman (pictured), a leading television writer in Hollywood,...

Feb 20, 2023

Wisconsin Teen Admits Murdering Entire Family

Feb. 20, 1963 - Five counts of first-degree murder were leveled against 16-year-old Harry Hebard (right) in Green Bay, Wisconsin this...

Feb 18, 2023

Wisconsin Teen Charged with Mass Murder of Family

Feb. 18, 1963 - In Oconto County, Wisconsin, this morning, a 16-year-old high school student was taken into custody after the bodies of 5...

Feb 13, 2023

Attorney General Sees Progress in War on Organized Crime

Feb. 13, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy told a Los Angeles press conference today that, although the Justice Department has...

Feb 13, 2023

Zantzinger Surrenders to Authorities

Feb. 10, 1963 - A wealthy Maryland farmer turned himself in to police today after a statewide alarm was broadcast for his arrest on...

Feb 2, 2023

Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club Growing in California

Feb. 2, 1963 - They call themselves Hell’s Angels. Their symbol is the grinning Death’s Head. Perhaps you’ve seen them on the highways of...

Jan 31, 2023

Clemency Plea from Wife Slayer Dr. Sheppard Is Rejected

Jan. 31, 1963 - The Ohio Pardon and Parole Commission today rejected a clemency plea from Dr. Sam Sheppard (pictured left in the early...

Jan 28, 2023

Love Comes to Convicted Murder Dr. Sam Sheppard

Jan. 28, 1963 - Love has come to Dr. Sam Sheppard in the prison where he is serving a life sentence for the 1954 murder of his wife...

Jan 27, 2023

Rhode Island Teen Booked for Murder of Two Women, Says He Had “Urge To Kill”

Jan. 27, 1963 - A 17-year-old Pawtucket, R.I., high school student and star athlete spent much of the day telling police how he slashed...