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Voices: Police Capt. Ed Jokisch, 1914 – 2011
Photo: LAPD homicide detectives in a gag photo, Christmas 1946. Ed is on the left in the back row. Credit: Ed Jokisch I received word Saturday that my friend, retired Police Capt. Ed Jokisch, has...
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#architecture, #art, #black dahlia, #history, #religion, 8|9|2011
Photo: 130 W. 30th, via Google maps’ street view. SPOTLIGHT David W. Dunlap, writing in the New York Times’ City Room, tells the story of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, sometimes called the “gay...
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Voices: Police Capt. Ed Jokisch, 1914 – 2011, Part 2
Photo: Capt. Ed Jokisch. Credit: Jokisch family This is Part 2 of my interview with the late Ed Jokisch. Listen to the interview. | Part 1 In this portion of the interview, Jokisch discusses Capt....
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Rave Review on Amazon, Only $5
Photo: Edsel Ford III, left, and Edsel Ford II at the wheel of the Model 40. Credit: Edsel and Eleanor Ford House. David Streitfeld of the New York Times reports on how authors, restaurants and hotels...
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Voices: Police Capt. Ed Jokisch, 1914 – 2011, Part 3
Image: Ed Jokisch retires, Feb. 18, 1972. Retirement cartoons are an LAPD tradition. This is what they looked like in the 1970s. Credit: Ed Jokisch family. This is Part 3 of my interview with the late...
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Steve Hodel and James Ellroy
Images: James Ellroy’s inscribed copies of “Black Dahlia Avenger” are sold on EBay. Classy, no? Several people have written to me about James Ellroy’s onetime support of Steve Hodel and the whole...
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Found on EBay –‘For the Life of Me’
A copy of Jim Richardson’s flawed autobiography “For the Life of Me” has been listed on EBay. Richardson was the notorious city editor of the Examiner who orchestrated its coverage of the Black Dahlia...
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When Hollywood Goes Wrong —‘The Black Dahlia’
There are so many things that Brian De Palma got wrong in “The Black Dahlia” that a list of mistakes would fill a long book. I had forgotten that the movie starts out with what is purportedly the Zoot...
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The Black Dahlia at 65
Photo: Lobby of the Biltmore Hotel, Jan. 9, 2012, 6:30 p.m. Credit: Larry Harnisch/L.A. Daily Mirror. I wandered over to the Biltmore on Monday night to keep my annual appointment. I’m not compulsive...
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‘Lipstick Killer’ William Heirens Dies at 83
The Chicago Tribune is reporting the death of William Heirens, 83, who allegedly wrote “For heaven’s sake catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself” in lipstick on a mirror at a 1945 crime...
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The Black Dahlia and Downtown L.A. at Night, 1946
Photo: Man with a slate in footage shot for “Down to Earth.” My friends over at the 1947project have found some process footage that was filmed about April 1946 for the Columbia feature “Down to...
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Voices: Police Capt. Ed Jokisch, 1914 – 2011
Photo: LAPD homicide detectives in a gag photo, Christmas 1946. Ed is on the left in the back row. Credit: Ed Jokisch I received word Saturday that my friend, retired Police Capt. Ed Jokisch, has...
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#architecture, #art, #black dahlia, #history, #religion, 8|9|2011
Photo: 130 W. 30th, via Google maps’ street view. SPOTLIGHT David W. Dunlap, writing in the New York Times’ City Room, tells the story of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, sometimes called the “gay...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Voices: Police Capt. Ed Jokisch, 1914 – 2011, Part 2
Photo: Capt. Ed Jokisch. Credit: Jokisch family This is Part 2 of my interview with the late Ed Jokisch. Listen to the interview. | Part 1 In this portion of the interview, Jokisch discusses Capt....
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Rave Review on Amazon, Only $5
Photo: Edsel Ford III, left, and Edsel Ford II at the wheel of the Model 40. Credit: Edsel and Eleanor Ford House. David Streitfeld of the New York Times reports on how authors, restaurants and hotels...
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Voices: Police Capt. Ed Jokisch, 1914 – 2011, Part 3
Image: Ed Jokisch retires, Feb. 18, 1972. Retirement cartoons are an LAPD tradition. This is what they looked like in the 1970s. Credit: Ed Jokisch family. This is Part 3 of my interview with the late...
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Steve Hodel and James Ellroy
Images: James Ellroy’s inscribed copies of “Black Dahlia Avenger” are sold on EBay. Classy, no? Several people have written to me about James Ellroy’s onetime support of Steve Hodel and the whole...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Found on EBay –‘For the Life of Me’
A copy of Jim Richardson’s flawed autobiography “For the Life of Me” has been listed on EBay. Richardson was the notorious city editor of the Examiner who orchestrated its coverage of the Black Dahlia...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When Hollywood Goes Wrong —‘The Black Dahlia’
There are so many things that Brian De Palma got wrong in “The Black Dahlia” that a list of mistakes would fill a long book. I had forgotten that the movie starts out with what is purportedly the Zoot...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Black Dahlia at 65
Photo: Lobby of the Biltmore Hotel, Jan. 9, 2012, 6:30 p.m. Credit: Larry Harnisch/L.A. Daily Mirror. I wandered over to the Biltmore on Monday night to keep my annual appointment. I’m not compulsive...
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