Aug 22, 2021Actor and Musician 'Spade' CooleyGets Life Sentence for Murdering WifeAug. 22, 1961 - Donnell Cooley (right), the musician and actor better known as Spade Cooley, was spared the gas chamber and sentenced to...
Aug 18, 2021Judge Learned Hand, Highly-Esteemed Jurist, Dead at 89Aug. 18, 1961 - Judge Learned Hand (pictured in 1951), once called the greatest jurist of his time, died today at the age of 89. Judge...
Aug 16, 2021TV: Karl Held to Portray Law Student on "Perry Mason"Aug. 16, 1961 - Karl Held (right), television actor, will portray David Gideon, a young law student who assists Perry Mason when the TV...
Jul 14, 2021Pugach Guilty in Acid-Throwing CaseJuly 14, 1961 - Burton N. Pugach, a disbarred lawyer, was convicted today of arranging to have lye thrown in the face of his former...
