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Title
Frank A. DeSimone
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1959
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Frank DeSimone graduated from the University of Southern California Law School and became a lawyer in 1933. Soon after, he turned to a life in crime and was an attorney for organized crime figures in Los Angeles. He was the boss of the Los Angeles crime family from 1956 to 1967. He was sometimes referred to as "One Eye" because one of his eyes drooped. Desimone was identified as having attended a 1957 Apalachin "crime convention" at the home of a known gangster in New York in November, 1957. That "convention" led to a federal investigation.
Photograph caption dated March 18, 1959 reads "Frank Desimone, unfriendly witness at federal grand jury."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00106456
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4249
CARL0005334151
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32272
Subject
DeSimone, Frank A
DeSimone, Frank A.--Trials, litigation, etc
California.--Grand Jury (Los Angeles County)
Gangsters--United States
Grand jury--United States
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Organized crime--United States
Men--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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