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Jul 5, 2023

New Jersey Factory Worker Goes Berserk

July 5, 1963 - A 36-year-old factory worker shot and killed his wife and sister-in-law today in Linden, N.J., and after wounding 3 other...

Jun 19, 2023

Condemned Murderers Latham and York Granted Stay of Execution

June 19, 1963 - Two condemned killers, James Douglas Latham and George Ronald York (pictured in 1961), were granted a last-minute stay of...

Jun 11, 2023

Tony Pro Convicted of Extortion in Newark

June 11, 1963 - Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano (pictured), 46, hulking president of Teamsters Union Local 560 and friend of Teamsters czar...

May 29, 2023

Tony Pro on Murdered Shop Steward: “He Was Accident-Prone”

May 29, 1963 - Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano (pictured), 45, president of the Teamsters Union’s 13,000-member Local 560, expressed grief...

May 28, 2023

French Nightclub Owner Guilty in NYC Heroin Case

May 28, 1963 - Francois Paul Scaglia (pictured right with an NYC police detective after his 1962 arrest), a 35-year-old French nightclub...

May 27, 2023

Gov. Hughes Orders All-Out Probe of Union Murder

May 27, 1963 - An all-out investigation by the New Jersey state police into the cold-blooded Hoboken murder of maverick Teamsters shop...

May 26, 2023

Nazi-Minded Tough Guy Has Day in Court

May 26, 1963 - An arrogant, Nazi-minded tough guy, arrested for roughing up a detective during a melee at a Yorkville hate rally...

May 25, 2023

Tony Pro Kin Held in Hoboken Murder

May 25, 1963 - A relative by marriage to the Provenzano clan was held today as a material witness in the slaying of Walter Glockner, 27,...

May 24, 2023

Tony Pro Foe Murdered in N.J.

May 24, 1963 - A young Teamsters’ Union shop steward who opposed the president of his local, Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, was fatally...

May 22, 2023

French TV Star Admits Heroin Conspiracy

May 22, 1963 - Jacques D. Angelvin (right), a Parisian television performer, admitted in New York State Supreme Court today that he had...

May 20, 2023

Mob Roundup in Brooklyn

May 20, 1963 - In the wake of an early morning shooting attack on two Profaci mobsters, Brooklyn detectives last night rounded up the...

May 16, 2023

Comedian Lenny Bruce Convicted of Heroin Possession

May 16, 1963 - Comedian Lenny Bruce (pictured left with John Marshall, his attorney) was convicted by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury...

May 13, 2023

Dr. Sheppard Faces Legal Setback

May 13, 1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected today a plea from Dr. Sam Sheppard (pictured right in 1954) that he be allowed to take a...

May 8, 2023

New Strangling Victim in Boston

May 8, 1963 - A young music teacher was found strangled tonight in her apartment just off Harvard Square, confronting the police of the...

Apr 24, 2023

Search Is On for Slayer of Baltimore Mailman

Apr. 24, 1963 - In Attalla, Alabama today, state and county authorities began a massive search for the slayer of a white Baltimore...

Apr 23, 2023

Prison Break in Michigan, Four Hardened Convicts At Large

Apr. 23, 1963 - Four hardened criminals, two of them convicted murderers, escaped today from the maximum-security section of the nation’s...

Apr 14, 2023

Mentally Disturbed High Schooler Charged Admits Murdering Olympic Skier

Apr. 14, 1963 - A mentally disturbed high school boy who Utah authorities said tried to strangle a 15-year-old Salt Lake City girl less...

Apr 13, 2023

Arrest Made in Murder of Olympic Skier

Apr. 13, 1963 - A lanky, 18-year-old high school youth was booked tonight for the dismemberment slaying of skier Sonja McCaskie in Reno,...

Apr 6, 2023

Nashville Millionaire Killed with Samurai Sword, Wife Held for Questioning

Apr. 6, 1963 - Financier John B. Wilson died with a Japanese samurai sword through his heart in his Nashville mansion today, and police...

Apr 6, 2023

Olympic Skier Brutally Murdered in Reno

Apr. 6, 1963 - The dismembered body of a young British Olympic skier was found last night in her Reno, Nev., apartment, police announced...