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Title: Bullet holes in the lampshade
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A man holds a lampshade which has been ripped by a blaze of bullets in a shooting involving gangster Mickey Cohen. On the table underneath is a spread out deck of cards. The "death-card", the ace of spades, has been circled in the picture. (File date: Aug. 19, 1948)
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010392
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 9741-Cohen, Mickey.
CARL0000012294
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8306
Subject: Cohen, Mickey,--1914-1976
Organized crime--California--Los Angeles
Gangsters--United States
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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