"I killed nobody that didn't deserve killing. In all of these here killings there was no alternative. You couldn't call them cold-blooded killings.... It was either my life or theirs."
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To Mike Wallace in an ABC-TV-interview in Los Angeles (May 18, 1957). Quoted in LA Times (May 19, 1957).
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Mickey Cohen
Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen (4 September 1913 in Brooklyn, New York – 29 July 1976 in Los Angeles, California) was a gangster based in L.A. from the 1930s through the 1970s.
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