BIBLIOGRAPHY, CLARIFICATIONS & CORRECTIONS
King of Diamonds Bibliography
BOOKS
Arnold, Ann “Gamblers and Gangsters – Fort Worth’s Jacksboro Highway in the 1940s and 1950s.” Austin, TX: Eakin Press,1998.
Aynesworth, Hugh
“Breaking the News – A Reporter’s Eyewitness Account of the Kennedy Assassination and Its Aftermath.” Richardson, TX: International Focus Press, 2003.
“November 22, 1963 - Witness to History.” Dallas: Brown Books Publishing, 2015.
Bainbridge, John “The Super-Americans.” New York: Doubleday, 1961.
Baker, Bobby “Wheeling and Dealing -- Confessions of a Capitol Hill Operator.” New York: W. W. Norton, 1978.
Brown, Judge Joe B., edited by Diane Holloway Lincoln, NE: Authors Choice Books, 2001.
Bryant, Vickie and Camille Hess “Top O’ Hill Terrace.” Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2021.
Burrough, Bryan “The Big Rich –The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes.” New York: Penguin Books, 2009.
Cartwright, Gary
“The Best I Recall.” Austin, TX: UT Press, 2015.
“Turn Out the Lights –Chronicles of Texas During the 80s and 90s.” Austin, TX: UT Press, 2000.
Denton, Sally and Roger Morris “The Money and the Power – The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America 1947-2000.” New York: Knopf, 2001.
Finkel, Michael “The Art Thief,” New York, Knopf, 2023.
Fischer, Steve “When The Mob Ran Vegas – Stories of Money, Mayhem and Murder.” Omaha, NE: Berkline Press, 2005.
Flemmons, Jerry “AMON – The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America.” Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 1998.
Gatewood, Jim
“Captain Will Fritz and the Dallas Mafia.” Garland, TX: Mullaney Corp., 2004.
”Decker – A Biography of Sheriff Bill Decker of Dallas County 1898-1970.” Garland, TX: Mullaney Corp., 1999.
“J. Frank Norris, Top O’ Hill Casino, Lew Jenkins and the Texas Oil Rich.” Garland, TX: Mullaney Corp.,
“Sid Richardson and Texas Oil.” Garland, TX: Mullaney Corp., 2017.
Gentry, Curt “J. Edgar Hoover – The Man and the Secrets.” New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
Graff, Garrett M. “Watergate, A New History.” New York: Avid Reader Press, 2022.
Gray, Ed “Henry Wade’s Tough Justice – How Dallas County Prosecutors Led the Nation in Convicting the Innocent.” Indianapolis IN: Dog Ear Publishing, 2010.
Haile, Bartee ”Texas Boomtowns – A History of Blood and Oil.” Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2015
Harrigan, Stephen “Big Wonderful Thing.” Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 219.
Horning, Paul “Golden Boy.” New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.
Hougan, Jim “Secret Agenda—Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA.” New York: Random House,1984.
Huffaker, Bo and Bill Mercer, George Fenix, Wes Wise “When the News Went Live – Dallas 1963.” Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2004.
Kirchick, James “SECRET CITY - The Hidden History of Gay Washington. Henry Holt.
Kelleher, Jems “He Was Expendable.” Middletown, DE: Lulu Books, 2014.
Kling, Dwayne “The Rise of the Biggest Little City – An Encyclopedic History of Reno Gaming , 1931-1981.” Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press.
Lait, Jack and Lee Mortimer “U.S.A. Confidential.” New York: Crown Books, 1952.
Letersky, Paul with Gordon Dillow “The Director – My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover.” New York: Scribner of Simon and Schuster, 2021.
Leslie, Warren “Dallas – Public and Private.” Dallas: SMU Press, 1964.
Lacey, Robert “Little Man – Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life.” Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1991.
Linsley, Judith Walker with Ellen Walker Rienstra and Jo Ann Stiles “Giant Under the Hill – A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas in 1901.” Austin, TX: The Texas State Historical Association, 2002.
Martin, James “James J. Ling, Who Built Conglomerates, Dies at 81,” The New York Times, Dec. 26, 2004, page 50.
McDonald, Maurice N. “Nick:. “Oswald and I.” Charleston, S.C.: RMSW Press, 2013.
Mellen, Joan “Our Man in Haiti -- George de Mohrenschildt and the CIA in the Nightmare Republic.” Walterville, OR: Trine Day LLC, 2012.
Miller, Edward H. “Nut Country –Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of The Southern Strategy.” Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Minutaglio, Bill and Steven L. Davis “Dallas 1963.” New York: Twelve-Hachette Book Group, 2013.
Moehring,Eugene P. “Resort City in the Sunbelt – Las Vegas 1930-2000.” Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1989.
Moldea, Dan E. “Interference – How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football.” New York: William Morrow andCo.,1989.
Murchison, Clint Jr. “Clint’s Corner.” Dallas, TX: Self-Published, 1970. Nail, Reilly. “Per Stirpes – The John M. Nail Family in Texas 1839-1995.” Self-published, 1995.
Newton, Michael “Mr. Mob -- The Life and Crimes of Moe Dalitz.” North Carolina and London: McFarland and Company, 1951.
Oliver, Beverly with Coke Buchanan “Nightmare in Dallas.” Lancaster, PA: Starburst Publishing, 1994.
Papa, Paul W. “Discovering Vintage Las Vegas.” Guilford, CN: Globe Pequot of Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
Payton, Claire Antone Department of History, Duke University, Dissertation. Baker Case Spotlights Congressional Ethics: The City and the State: Construction and the Politics of Dictatorship in Haiti (1957-1986) 2018.
Patoski, Joe Nick “The Dallas Cowboys.” New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. Payne, Darwin. “Big D.” Dallas: Three Forks Press, 2000.
Payne, Darwin
”No Small Dreams – J. Erik Jonsson – Texas Visionary.” Dallas, TX: DeGolyer Library, 2014.
“Behind the Scenes, Covering the JFK Assassination.” University of North Texas Press, Denton, Texas, 2023.
Pizzo, Stephen, Mary Fricker and Paul Muolo “Inside Job –The Looting of America’s Savings and Loans.” New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.
Reston, James Jr. “The Lone Star -- The Ife of John Connally.” New York: Harper and Row, 1989.
Reid, Ed and Ovid Demaris “The Green Felt Jungle.” Bronx, NY: ISHI Press, 1963.
Schumacher, Geoff ”Sun, Sin and Suburbia – A History of Modern Las Vegas.” Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 2015.
Shaw, Mark
“The Reporter Who Knew Too Much – The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen.” New York: Post Hill Press, 2017.
Denial of Justice – “Dorothy Kilgallen, Abuse of Power, and the Most Compelling JFK Assassination Investigation in History.” New York: Post Hill Press, 2018.
Sheehan, Jack “The Players –The Men Who Made Las Vegas.” Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1997.
Shnayerson, Michael “Bugsy Siegel – The Dark Side of the American Dream.” New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021.
Sleeper, Gary W. “I’ll Do My Own Damn Killin’ – Benny Binion, Herbert Noble, and the Texas Gambling War.” Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 2006.
Stanford, Phil “White House Call Girl – The Real Watergate Story.” Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 2013.
Swanson, Doug J. “Blood Aces –The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, The Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker.” New York: Viking, 2014.
Thompson, Thomas ”Blood and Money.” Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1976.
Tye, Larry “Demagogue – The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Van Buren, Ernestine Orrick “Clint – Clinton Williams Murchison.” Austin, TX: Eakin. Press, 1986.
Wolfe, Jane “The Murchisons –The Rise and Fall of A Texas Dynasty.” New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
Zapruder, Alexandra
“Twenty-six Seconds – A Personal History of the Zapruder Film.” New York: Twelve-Hachette Group, 2016.
“This Little Higgy’s Still Cookin’!” A Collection of Recipes by the Family of R.W. and Hattie Higginbotham. Kearney, NE: Morris Press Cookbooks, 2012
“This Little Higgy Stayed Home.” A Second Album of Recipes Collected by the Family of Hattie and Rufus Higginbotham.” Savanah, TN: Keepsake Cookbooks, Fundco Publishers, 1989.
Magazines and Newspaper Features
Amoss, Jim and Dean Baguet “Carlos Marcello Part One: Climb to Power.” The Times Picayune Dixie Magazine, February 14, 1982, pp .10-14 and 16, 18, 20.
Amoss, Jim and Dean Baguet “Carlos Marcello Part Two: The Feds on His Trail 1961-1981.” The Times Picayune Dixie Magazine, February 21, 1982, pp. 8-10 and 12-17.
Amoss Jim and Dean Baguet “Carlos Marcello Part Three: An Intimate Look at the Man Behind the Legend.” The Times Picayune Dixie Magazine, Feb. 28, 1982, pp. 16-19
Atkinson, Jim “Who’s Behind the Mafia in Dallas?” D Magazine, December 1977.
Barrett, Neal Jr. “Life with the Merger King – Dallas entrepreneur Jimmy Ling dreamed up the modern conglomerate. And then it crashed.” Texas Observer, May 5, 2011.
Beeson, William “Can They Trump the King of Diamonds?” Front Page Detective, March 1966, pp. 40-41 and 64-68.
Bowden, Jeff “The Man Who Brought Azaleas to Dallas—The story of landscape architect Joe Lambert, as remembered by his remarkable wife, Evelyn.” D Home, Holiday 2000.
Boyle, Robert “The Bookies Close Up Shop.” Sports Illustrated, September 9, 2003.
Brinkley, Rob “Meet Betty Blake.” Paper City, March 28, 2012, updated April 10, 2012.
Brown, Jo David Sports Illustrated. “A Big Man Even in Big D.” January 21, 1963.
Brown, Stanley “Let’s Make a Deal – If Dad Joiner had said no in 1930 he could have been H.L. Hunt.” Texas Monthly, August 1976.
Bunbury, Turtle “Evelyn Lambert: The American Widow Who Conquered Europe.”
Burner, John “How One Drought Changed Texas Agriculture Forever.” NPR, July 7, 2016.
Cartwright, Gary
“Benny and the Boys,” Texas Monthly, October, 1991. https:// www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/benny-and-the-boys/
“Sincerely, Clint,” Texas Monthly, October, 1991. file:///Users/ renapederson/Desktop/Murchison/Texas%20Monthly%20- %20cliint%20murchison%20marcello.htm
“Who Was Jack Ruby? How a small-time strip joint operator ushered in America’s age of violence.” Texas Monthly, November, 1975.
Chandler, David and investigative staff
“The Little Man Is Bigger than Ever,” LIFE, April 10, 1970.
Congressional Quarterly Almanac, 1964. “Republicans attack conduct of Baker Investigation.”
Cook, Adrian with photography by Robert Emmett Bright.
The Collectors – The Villa of Art -- Evelyn Kelly in the Veneto.” Architectural Digest, April 1980, pp. 90-97.
Culture Desk: The Thief Who Steals Only Silver.” The New Yorker, Dec. 22, 2016.
Dubner, Stephen J. “The Silver Thief.” The New Yorker, May 17, 2004. pp. 74
Fennell, James Photographs. “Casa Leon, Cuernavaca, Mexico – The Incredible Mrs. Lambert.” The White Book, March 2005.
Finklea, Robert “Who Was the King of Diamonds?” D Magazine, September, 1975.
Fitzgibbons, Ruth Miller “Dallas’ First Families: Old Money Still Survives.” D Magazine, August 1982.
Friedman, Andrea “The Smearing of Joe McCarthy -- The Lavender Scare, Gossip, and Cold War Politics.” American Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 4, 2005, pp. 1105–1129.
Gee, Denise “Dallas Socialite’s Apartment Pays Tribute to British Decorator.” D Home, March-April 2007.
Greenberg, Nikki Finke “High Profile: Sharon Simons.” The Dallas Morning News, Sept. 27, 1981, pp. 1-2.
Gynne, S.C. “Bunker Hunt.” Texas Monthly, September, 2001.
Harris, Eleanor “The Case of the Billionaire Bachelor.” LOOK, November 30, 1954, pp. 83-93.
Hollandsworth, Skip
“Candy Barr: She used to be the center of attention, both scandalized and adoring. Now she just wants to be left alone.” Texas Monthly, September 2001.
“The Carat and the Schtick.” D Magazine, December 1986.
Hopkins, David ”Why Dallas Burlesque Owes a Debt to Tammi True.” D Magazine, March 2011.
Hunt, Thomas “The History of Organized Crime in the United Dallas—Dallas Mob Leaders.” The American Mafia. http://mafiahistory.us/maf-b-da.html
Imm, Val
“Making It and Breaking It in Society.” D Magazine, October 1976.
“So You Want to Be a Deb.” D Magazine, October 1976.
James, Gary Tammi True Interview. Famous Interview. No date.
Kendall, Rob “The late, great philanthropist Nancy Hamon, from an insider’s point of view.” FD Magazine, January 30, 2015.
Lerman, Leo. Photography Duane Michaels “The Entertaining Mrs. Lambert.” Vogue, July 1980, pp. 141 -147 and 182.
McPherson, Myra “A Good Ol’ Boy at the Super Bowl." D Magazine, September 1978.
McVay, Melinda “Biographical profile of Evelyn Kelly Lambert.” Nasher Sculpture Center Publication, May 1, 2015, pp. 1-34.
Miller, Eric ”The Jukebox Wars.” D Magazine, July 1984.
Patoski, Joe Nick “The King of Clubs.” Texas Monthly, April 2000.
Peppard, Alan
“Oil in the Family.” Vanity Fair, May 7, 2008.
”$12.5 million for Wyly’s House, A Century Old Touchstone of Affluence,” Dallas Morning News, July 16, 2017.
Porterfield, Bill “H.L. Hunt’s Long Good-bye.” Texas Monthly, March 1975. http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/h-l-hunts-long-goodbye/ #sthash.cEbmW38y.dpuf
Potter, Matt
“Oil and Politics in La Jolla.” The San Diego Reader, Jan. 5, 2011. https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/jan/05/cover-oil-politics-la-jolla/
“The Big Rich, Part Two.” The San Diego Reader, Jan. 12, 2011. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/jan/12/feature-big-rich-part-two/#
Prejean, Jean “A Passing: Betty Muhlenberg Brooke Blake.” My Sweet Charity, Aug 14, 2016. https://mysweetcharity.com/2016/08/a-passing-betty-muhlenberg-brooke-blake/
Redding, Stan “The King of Diamonds.” Official Detective Stories, August 1966, pp.31-33 and 49-50.
Reynolds, Ruth “The Jewel Thief Plots His Season.” New York Daily News Sunday, August 25, 1963, pp.16-17.
Richman, Tom “Jim Ling,” Inc. Magazine, May 1, 1984.
Ritz, David “The Mad Men of Dallas.” D Magazine, November 2012.
Rosenfield, Paul “The Disappearing Diamonds.” The Dallas Times Herald Sunday Magazine, March 18, 1962, pp.4-7.
Scherschel, Frank and Joe “$21 Million Hotel Opens.” LIFE, March 28, 1949, pp. 27-31. December 1992.
Seal, Mark
“Life of a Salesman,” Texas Monthly, December 1992.
“The New Social Register: The ‘A’ List. Or Just A List?” D Magazine, September 1987.
Shropshire, Mike “Does the Creator of the Cowboys Really Belong in the Hall of Fame?” D Magazine, September 2018.
Smith, Sandy “Brazen Empire of Crime: The Mob, Part One.” LIFE, September 1, 1967, pp. 15-22 and 42b-45.
Sherman, Rebecca
“A Legendary Texas Socialite Who Lived to 100 Leaves an Incredible Story Behind – The Unbelievable True Tales of Betty Blake.” Paper City, October 14, 2016.
“Legendary Oil Empress Leaves Behind Powerful Sketches – Inside a Rich Mind.” Paper City, October 5, 2015.
Smith, Jerrie “The Golden Age of Dallas Society.” D Magazine, October, 1976.
Smith, Sandy “Brazen Empire of Crime: How the Mob Muscles into Your Daily Life.” LIFE, September 8, 1967, pp.92-104.
Stephenson, Tom “Low Profile: The Godfather of Greenville Avenue.” D Magazine, December 1989.
Stitler, Roland “A Good Ol’ Boy Back Home.” D Magazine, September 1978.
Stowers, Carlton “It’s Always Been A Gamble.” D Magazine, March 1995.
Summers, Anthony “Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover.” New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.1993.
TIME magazine, no byline “High Finance: Texas on Wall Street,” cover story, June 16, 1961.
Tucker, Chris “Jim Ling: Now he’s in oil and gas, but the shadow of LTV still lingers.” D Magazine, October 1982.
Turrentine, Jeff with photography by Ira Montgomery “Russell Buchanan restores an architecturally significant Dallas Home.” Architectural Digest, August 2, 2017, pp. 1-9.
Unsigned “Dallas Socialite’s Apartment Pays Tribute to British Decorator.” D Home, March -April 2007.
Unsigned “Dallas Dances.” Town and Country, February 1953, pp.90-91.
Unsigned “How Three Collectors Display Their Treasures.” House and Garden, Volume 130, July 1966, pp. 62-68.
Unsigned “Party Power Why society loves Ann Draper.” D Magazine, October 1976.
Wayne, Leslie “Conglamerateur-extraordinaire James J. Ling with LTV Memory He’s Taking His Act to the Oil Patch,” July 12, 1981, page 8.
West, Richard “WHY PRISCILLA DAVIS IS A CELEBRITY AND YOU’RE NOT- The Absolute, Complete, Final Word on Everyone Who’s Ever Been a Celebrity In Dallas-And Why.” D Magazine, April 1987.
Wright, Lawrence “Was Dallas A City of Hate?” D Magazine, November 1988.
Government Reports
Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the U.S. Congress, “The Disgraceful Bobby Baker Probe,” March 10, 1964, Page A1246.
Report of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the U.S. Senate, “Financial and Business Interests of Officers or Employees of the Senate,” July 8, 1964, pages 18-72.
Hunt, Thomas P “The American Mafia -- The History of Organized Crime in the United States Dallas (Civelo) Mob Leaders.” 2022
Corrections
Page 49: Second sentence in third paragraph should be: Members of the Murchison family say the Del Mar endowment continues to make annual contributions to the Boys & Girls Clubs and Boy Scouts of America 55 years later.
Page 61: Last sentence in second paragraph should read: He knew a lot of powerful people.
Page 155: Name should be Jim Gatewood, not Jim Gates, so the paragraph says: “According to local historian Jim Gatewood, he was a regular visitor to Top O’ Hill and bet big on boxing matches there. Gatewood claimed that Campisi and some of his associates tried to fix some bouts. When they won, Gatewood wrote, Campisi hosted parties with “good food, booze, and broads.”
Page 341: Should read checkers instead of dominoes, so the sentence reads: “His granddaughter Lyda Hill beat him at checkers.”
Page 395: First sentence of first paragraph should begin: Though Clint Jr.’s record had been diminished, his descendants became known as good stewards of family interests and respected civic leaders. Page 376: Should say Margaret Gillin rather than Dorothy Gillin so that this sentence reads: “When they moved to Beverly Hills, Margaret Gillin drove Dallas visitors to see movie stars’ homes in her Rolls-Royce. “
Page 396: It should say son Ray Hunt, rather than grandson, so this sentence reads: “His grandson, Ray Hunt, created his own success in the oil business and became a respected city leader.”