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Photo of Mickey Cohen crime scene

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Order Number	00010449
Title	Photo of Mickey Cohen crime scene
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE Box 9741-Cohen, Mickey.
Date	1949
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	This is a wide angle shot showing Sherry's Restaurant (on the right side) where Mickey Cohen and 3 others were ambushed at 3:45 a.m. in front of the restaurant on the Sunset Strip. Mickey's car drove up to the curb and gunmen (hiding across the street under an advertising sign indicated in the area circled on the left side of the picture) opened fire with shotguns. The gunmen then sped away in a gray auto, tossing out the guns a block away. Mickey was the least seriously wounded. (File date: July 20, 1949)
Subject	Sherry's Restaurant (Los Angeles, Calif.). Organized crime--California--Los Angeles. Gangsters--United States. Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs. Cohen, Mickey,1914-1976.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection