Title supplied by cataloger. In December 1963, 19-year-old Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped from his dressing room in the Harrah�s Club Lodge in Lake Tahoe by 23-year-old former high school classmates from Los Angeles�Barry Keenan and Joe Amsler. A third conspirator, John Irwin, was brought on to help collect a ransom. Sinatra was held in a Canoga Park house for three days and was released while the ransom was being collected. The three conspirators where quickly located by the FYI and later convicted. Photograph caption dated December 15, 1963 reads, ""Young Sinatra Visits 'Kidnap House' in Canoga Park. Along with FBI agents, he inspects ramshackle house where abductors held him captive."" The residence was located at 8143 Mason Avenue in Canoga Park.
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