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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Harry and Mickey Cohen Correspondence Collection
Creator:
Cohen, Mickey, 1914-1976
Identifier/Call Number: URB.HMC
Extent:
0.21 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1954-1969
Date (bulk): 1962-1964
Abstract: The Harry and Mickey Cohen
Correspondence Collection consist of personal correspondence primarily between one of the
Cohen brothers and newspaper woman Agness Underwood during the period of Mickey Cohen's last
prison term in the 1960s.
Language of Material: English
Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen was an American gangster working primarily out of Los Angeles,
CA after stints in Cleveland, New York, and Chicago, where he worked in Al Capone's
organization. In Los Angeles Cohen worked for Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel until his 1947 death
at which time Mickey took over. Cohen served in Alcatraz and later the Atlanta Federal
Penitentiary (for tax evasion, 1951 and again in 1961) where another inmate made an attempt
on his life with a blow to the head from a lead pipe.
The
Harry and Mickey Cohen Correspondence Collection consist
of personal correspondence primarily between one of the Cohen brothers and newspaper woman
Agness Underwood during the period of Mickey Cohen's last prison term in the 1960s. Much of
the correspondence deals with Harry's attempt to obtain a medical parole for his brother.
Materials are arranged by correspondent and date.
The collection is open for research use.
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.
Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires
the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
11/2011.
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April Feldman, 2016
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