We have had a couple posts on this before, but the L.A. Times ran a series of photos today that I don't believe we have seen.
L.A. Times:
At 3:55 a.m. on July 20, 1949, Mickey Cohen and several companions were shot outside Sherry’s Restaurant on Sunset Boulevard.
The next morning, the Los Angeles Times reported:
Law enforcement agencies rallied against a bold upsurge of gangsterism in Los Angeles yesterday following the shotgun wounding of Mobster Mickey Cohen and three other persons in the Sunset Strip.
While a man hunt spread for the gunmen who blasted at the local underworld kingpin, an aroused citizenry demanded protection against the rising tide of crime typified by the gangland assassination attempt…..
Cohen and his companions were shot outside Sherry’s Restaurant, 9039 Sunset Blvd., at 3:55 a.m. Also wounded in the fusillade of slugs were:
Harry Cooper, 39, special agent for Howser (California state Atty. Gen. Frederick Howser) assigned to guard Cohen a week ago. The former California highway patrolman received a slug in the liver and was reported in a serious condition.
Edward (Neddie) Herbert, 35, a Cohen henchman who escaped 11 shots from a gangland .45-caliber pistol last June 22. He was wounded in the kidney and spleen and was reported critical and in severe shock….
Mrs. Dee David, also known as Dee Davis, 26-year-old doctor’s assistant and acquaintance of Cohen. She received three slugs in the spine and was described in “very critical” condition with severe shock.
July 20, 1949: Mickey Cohen, right, and Harry Cooper leave the Continentale Cafe on Santa Monica Boulevard. An hour later, the two were shot outside Sherry's Restaurant, on Sunset Boulevard. Look at the size of Cooper!
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July 20, 1949: Mickey Cohen receives emergency treatment at Hollywood Receiving Hospital for shoulder wound.
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July 20, 1949: Edward "Neddie" Herbert, one of Michey Cohen's associates, after getting shot outside of Sherry's restaurant on Sunset Blvd. He has a towel in his mouth to ease the pain. Herbert died a week later from his wounds.
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July 20, 1949: Miss Dee David getting treatment after being shot outside of Sherry's restaurant on Sunset Blvd. David, Mickey Cohen and two others were shot.
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July 20, 1949: Frank Niccoli, seated, and Eli Lubin, with Mickey Cohen at Queen of Angels Hospital following Cohen being shot in shoulder. The Times described the two hospital visitors as Cohen "henchmen."
If you remember from my Jean Spangler post, Frank Niccoli was one of Mickey's guys who was seen with Jean a week before she disappeared. Rumor had it that he was dumped down a lime pit at a Cucamunga vineyard. This photo was taken a couple of months before his "disappearance".
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July 20, 1949: Men use brush under billboard during reenactment of ambush Mickey Cohen and others in front of Sherry's Restaurant on Sunset Blvd.
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Illustration by LA Times artist Charles Owens showing ambush of Mickey Cohen and others outside of Sherry's Restaurant on Sunset Blvd. on July 20, 1949.
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The L.A. Times story with more pictures is here:
http://framework.latimes.com/2013/01...en-wounded/#/0