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Lot 186

[CHICAGO CRIME]. Scrapbook of Cook County Sheriff?s Office ...

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[CHICAGO CRIME]. Scrapbook of Cook County Sheriff?s Office newspaper clippings. 1964. Folio. A trove of newspaper clippings collected by the Cook County Sheriff?s Office from various Chicago newspapers spanning January 1, 1964 - December 31, 1964 with many articles focusing on Richard Cain, who was a Chicago police officer during the 1950s later found to be acting as a bagman between corrupt police officers and the Chicago Outfit. Cain would later be alleged to have been one of the assassins of President John F. Kennedy, having allegedly been posted with Charles Nicoletti in the Texas School Book Depository.