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June 21, 1947
THE BETHLEHEM GLOBE-TIMES, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1947
* Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel assassination
* Flamingo Club, Las Vegas, Nevada - Murder Inc.
This 16 page newspaper has a one column headline on the front page: "Gangland Shots Kill Gambling King"
Tells of the assassination of famous racketeer Bugsy Siegel. Some newspapers didn't even report this event at all. And the ones that did were usually inside page reports.
Other news of the day throughout. Some small binding holes along the spine, otherwise good condition.
wikipedia notes: On the night of June 20, 1947, as Siegel sat with his associate Allen Smiley in Virginia Hill's Beverly Hills home reading the Los Angeles Times, an unknown gunman entered the backyard and fired at him through the window with a .30-caliber military M1 carbine, hitting him many times including twice in the head. No one was ever charged with the murder, and the crime remains unsolved.
Though popular descriptions held that Siegel was shot in the eye, an autopsy revealed that the bullet actually entered the back of his skull, and exited through an eye socket; investigators found the eye across the room. The cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage. According to Florabel Muir, "Four of the nine shots fired that night destroyed a white marble statue of Bacchus on a grand piano, and then lodged in the far wall".
In the Bialystoker Synagogue on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Siegel is memorialized by a Yahrtzeit (remembrance) plaque that marks his death date so mourners can say Kaddish for the anniversary of his passing. Siegel's plaque is just below that of his father, Max Siegel, who died two months prior to his son's murder.
Category: The 20th Century
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