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Father: Del Farnsworth JEPSON
Mother: LIVING

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LIVING

Father: LIVING
Mother: Lorna Jane WADSWORTH

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LIVING

Father: James Harvey BURT
Mother: Minnie R. HALL

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LIVING

Father: LIVING
Mother: LIVING

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          _Felton Hanson HICKMAN _
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Sidney Roy KORSHAK

Father: Harry KORSHAK
Mother: Beatrice Rebecca LASH

Family 1: Bernice STEWART

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US PUBLIC RECORDS:
#771650360 Bernice S. Korshak, birth 1919, address 808 N. Hillcrest Rd. , Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Calif., 90210
#915055954 Bernice S. Korshak, 332 N. Palm Dr., Beverly Hills, Los Angele s, Calif. 90210
#558099988 Bernice S. Korshak, 535 W. Via Lola, Palm Springs, Riverside , Calif. 92262
Researcher: Georgenia Stewart, 25 Nov 2008

NOTES: UK INCOMING [PASSENGER LISTS, 1878-1960:
Sidney (43) and Bernice Korshak (31), port of departure was New York, Ne w York, United States. Arrival date in England was 26 Apr 1951. Ship de parting was the "Independence" and ship arriving was the Queen Elizabeth" , Cunard Steamship Company.
Stayed in the Savoy Hotel, London. Sidney was listed as a lawyer and Ber nice as a housewife. They traveled first class.
NEW YORK PASSENGER LISTS; 1820-1957:
Sidney R. (43) and Bernice Korshak (31), port of departure Naples, Italy . Arrival date in New York, New York, United States was 25 May 1951. Sh ip was the "Independence". Sidney's place of birth was Illinois and Bern ice's was Nevada. They had 9 pieces of luggage.
Researcher: Georgenia Stewart, 25 Nov 2008

NOTES: NEW YORK PASSENGER LISTS, 1820-1957
Sidney and Bernice Korshak, point of departure and arrival, New York, Ne w York, United States. Leaving 25 Sep 1953, arrival 10 Oct 1953. Ship w as the "RMS Caronia". Sidney born Illinois and Bernice born Nevada.
Address: 200 East Chesnut Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Researcher: Georgenia Stewart, 25 Nov 2008

NOTES: NEW YORK PASSENGER LISTS, 1820-1957
Sidney and Bernice Korshak, point of departure Le Havre, France, Leavin g 22 Oct 1954, arrival 26 Oct 1954. Ship was the "SS United States". Si dney born Illinois and Bernice born Alabama.
Address: 200 East Chesnut Street, Chicago, Illinois. They traveled firs t class.
Researcher: Georgenia Stewart, 25 Nov 2008

NOTES: NEW YORK PASSENGER LISTS, 1820-1957
Sidney and Bernice Korshak, point of departure Le Havre, France and arriv al in New York, New York, United States on 22 Oct 1956. Ship was the "Un ited States". Sidney born Illinois and Bernice born New Mexico.
Address: 2970 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois.
Researcher: Georgenia Stewart, 25 Nov 2008

!DEATH: California Death Index, 1940-1997 lists:
Sidney Roy Korshak, born 6 June 1907, in Illinois, died 20 Jan 1996, in L os Angeles, California. SSN 323-34-1801. Mother's maiden name was Lash . Researcher: Georgenia Stewart, 25 Nov 2008.

!DEATH: Social Security Death Index lists:
Sidhey R. Korshak, born 6 Jun 1907, died 20 Jan 1996. SSN# 323-34-1801 w as issued 1956-1958 in Illinois. Last residence Chicago, Cook, Illinoi s 60602. Researcher: Georgenia Stewart, 25 Nov 2008.

!OBITUARY: U.S.: Selected Jewish Obituaries, 1948-2002 lists:
Attorney Sidney Korshak, birth about 1908, age 88, died 20 Jan 1996, Beve rly Hills, California. Source: Chicago Obituary Database published 1-22 -1996. Researcher: Georgenia Stewart, 25 Nov 2008.

Sidney Roy Korshak
head of Teamsters on W Coast, heavily investigated by FBI etc lawyer fo r the mob. Called....
The Myth, The Duke, Mr Silk Stockings, the Fixer. Lived in Chicago and L A Ca.
Korshak, a product of Lawndale and DePaul University Law School who start ed representing mobsters in Chicago courthouses and ended up charging $50 ,000 a year as a retainer for "labor relations" for national businesses
Source: Genealogy website of Conway's of Ireland. Researcher: Georgeni a Stewart, 25 Nov 2008


Korshak was The Myth, Mr. Silk Stockings, The Duke and The Fixe r
Some mobsters get ridiculous nicknames.
The Clown.
No Nose.
The Weasel.
But others, like Chicago mob lawyer Sidney Roy Korshak, get nicknames mor e reflective of their importance.
To the rich and powerful, Korshak was "The Myth."
He was "Mr. Silk Stockings" and "The Duke."
And most appropriately, he was "The Fixer."
Korshak was the ultimate fixer, in Chicago and later in sunny California , where he thrived in the shadows.
Need a criminal case fixed? Call Korshak.
Teamsters threatening to cripple your business and they're not in a moo d to negotiate? Call Korshak.
Looking for an investment to launder the blood out of your mobbed-up mone y?
You get the picture.
His life spanned much of last century, and in his heyday he was the ultim ate bridge between big business, politicians, Hollywood, Las Vegas and th e mob. When the mob needed a smooth operator to work in the worlds wher e rough-hewn Chicago mobsters wouldn't fit in, Korshak -- the brother o f the late Chicago Democratic politician Marshall Korshak -- was the ma n of choice.
He was the velvet encasing the hammer.
He's now the subject of a new, exhaustive look at his exploits in investi gative reporter Gus Russo's magnum opus: Supermob: How Sidney Korshak an d His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers.
Russo tackled the Chicago mob in his 2003 book The Outfit. In Supermob h e expands on that work of melding big business and organized crime.
Russo underscores the Outfit's desire to move a lot of its money into leg itimate and quasi-legitimate businesses and investments, and the need o f organized crime for legitimate-looking men to help smooth that transiti on.
No one would typify that more than Korshak, a product of Lawndale and DeP aul University Law School who started representing mobsters in Chicago co urthouses and ended up charging $50,000 a year as a retainer for "labor r elations" for national businesses.
Early in the book, Russo does a masterful job of establishing the ethni c and political foundations for Korshak's beginnings in the Jewish sectio n of the Lawndale neighborhood and in the 24th Ward of consummate machin e politician Jacob Arvey.
In a neighborhood filled with young men hot for success, Korshak stood ou t. Russo shows how Korshak's friends from the same background would weav e their way into Korshak's orbit again and again throughout his life, fro m MCA's Jules Stein to the Pritzker family, from mobster Alex Louis Green berg to Appellate Court Justice David Bazelon.
Russo's ambition is to mark Korshak's place in the so-called Supermob o f mainly Jewish lawyers and businessmen who often got a boost from mobste rs early on in their careers and dealt with gangsters with varying degree s of involvement throughout their lives.
Source: "Supermob" by Gus Russo

NOTES: Will the Chicago Outfit Assign Hitmen to Compose 'Trunk Music' Ag ainst the Writers Guild?
Daily Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart has come up with a novel idea t o end the six-week-old writers’ strike – bring in the Chicago mafia to wh ack a few leaders of the striking Writers Guild.
In a column that ran in Daily Variety on Dec.10, 2007 under the headlin e “A way to settle so it’s all in the ‘family’” – with the word ‘family ’ in quotes to make sure we all know he’s talking about the Mafia – Bar t writes: “OK. I’ll admit it: I was once on reasonably friendly terms wit h Sidney Korshak” – the Chicago mafia’s man in Hollywood for more than 5 0 years.
Korshak, who was the go-to guy for the late-Universal Studios mogul Lew W asserman when contract talks stalled, was a master of “the trade-off,” ac cording to Bart, although in fact, Korshak was even more the master o f a quite different art – the art of the implied death threat.
“Korshak died 11 years ago,” Bart writes, “but had he been alive today, h e would have been dismayed by the state of disarray in Hollywood. The wri ters and show-runners don’t seem to appreciate what management has done f or them, he would have declared. And the companies similarly seem to hav e lost their talent at hard bargaining.
“Korshak surely would have enhanced the proposed compensation for digita l downloads (one of the sticking points in the contract talks), and had h is offer not been embraced, a few individuals might have been downloade d as well. Peace would prevail.”
Here, by ‘downloaded,’ Bart apparently means whacked; and by “a few indiv iduals,” he assumedly means union leaders, since they are the ones to who m contract offers are generally made.
“Does he know what century we’re in?” asked an astonished member of the W GA’s hierarchy. “Next he’ll be calling on Pinkerton agents to fire into o ur picket lines.”
Of course, Bart, who is a longtime member of the Writers Guild, may be ju st joking around – showing off the tough-guy image he has of himself, whi ch is something he’s known to do on occasion. But a reasonable reader mig ht ask: Is this anything for the editor of a newspaper to joke about duri ng an increasingly tense strike?
Joking or not, whacking troublesome Hollywood union leaders is somethin g that Korshak’s friends in the Chicago syndicate were known to do once i n a while. One famous case was the murder of Willie Bioff, the #2 guy i n the one of Hollywood most powerful unions, who in 1943 publicly identif ied Sid Korshak as the mob’s man in Hollywood.
Korshak’s ties to the Chicago mob go all the way back to the 1930s and th e days of Al Capone. In 1943, his name came up during the sensational tri al of some of Chicago’s top mobsters on charges that they’d extorted mor e than $1 million dollars from Hollywood’s movie studios. Unlike today, h owever, back then Daily Variety had an editor named Arthur Unger who wasn ’t so cozy with the mafia, and who bravely crusaded against the mob, writ ing editorials in which he called on Hollywood to run the gangsters out o f town.
The scandal began in the late 1930s when the Chicago mob seized control o f one of Hollywood’s most powerful unions - the International Alliance o f Theatrical Stage Employees, which represents most of the behind-the-sce nes workers in show business.
Frank Nitti, who was running the outfit while Capone was serving time fo r income tax evasion, controlled the union’s bosses, including Willie Bio ff, who was finally indicted on charges of extorting money from the studi os in exchange for labor peace.
During the trial, Korshak’s name came up when Bioff testified that he ha d been introduced to Korshak by one of the mob defendants, who had said : “Willie, meet Sidney Korshak. He is our man. . . . Any messages he migh t deliver to you is a message from us.”
Nitti had killed himself shortly after being indicted, and a lot of top m ob guys went to jail, including Johnnie Roselli and Paul “The Waiter” Ric ca. And in 1955, a decade after he was released from prison, Bioff was bl own to pieces by a car bomb, which in those days was a signature mob hit.
Korshak, who was once described as “the toughest lawyer in America,” wa s never charged with any crime, and moved easily between gangsters and mo vie moguls. Though not licensed to practice law in California, where he l ived for many years, Korshak served as an adviser to many of the top Holl ywood studios. And at the same time, authorities said, he was also an adv iser to such mob figures as Tony “Big Tuna” Accardo, Sam Giancana, Luck y Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Gus Alex.
In 1978, the California attorney general’s Organized Crime Control Commis sion issued a report that called Korshak “the key link between organize d crime and big business,” noting that he was a “senior adviser” to organ ized crime groups in California, Chicago, Las Vegas and New York. In a ra re interview, Korshak denied the allegations. “I’ve never been cited, le t alone indicted, for anything,” Korshak told the Los Angeles Herald Exam iner in 1978.
In Hollywood, Korshak helped broker numerous deals for some of the top st udios. In 1973, he mediated in the negotiations that led to the sale of M GMs theaters and properties in its overseas markets to Cinema Internation al Corp., a joint venture between MCA and Paramount. MCA chairman Lew Was serman and Charles Bluhdorn, whose Gulf & Western owned Paramount, person ally negotiated the deal with MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian - with Korshak a s mediator.

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