This Week In '66

 

With Lynn Peril

SHOW NOTES

The death of the fifth Mrs. Mickey Rooney in a shocking murder-suicide was in the headlines This Week in ‘66! 

Great video here:  The Murder of 1954 Miss Muscle Beach Beauty Contest Winner Barbara Thomason

Abramson, Rudy, “New ‘Pep Pill’ Control Law Going Into Effect; Druggists Must Keep Records Showing All Sales of Amphetamines and Barbiturates,” Los Angeles Times, January 31, 1966, 11. 

Ames, Walter, “Actress’ Friends Insist Rooney Was Her Suitor,” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1958, 2. 

Ames, Walter, “Mickey Rooney’s Fifth Marriage Disclosed,” The Los Angeles Times, June 4, 1959, 47. 

Bigart, Homer, “Peace Groups Begin Protests Against Resumption of Bombing in North Vietnam,” New York Times, February 1, 1966, 14. 

“Denies Marriage to Eighth Wife Yesterday; Mickey Rooney Does It Again,” The Indiana Gazette, July 29, 1978, 1. 

Graham, Rubye, “One Girl in Paris; Saint Laurent Builds Smash Collection on Sailors’-wear Theme,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 1966, 1. 

Jaediker, Kermit, “The Murder the French Won’t Forget,” New York Daily News, December 9, 1973, 133. 

Johnson, Pete, and Paul Houston, “Mickey Rooney’s Wife Shot to Death in Brentwood Home; Young Actor Found Slain Beside Her,” Los Angeles Times, February 1, 1966, 3. 

“Mickey Rooney’s Wife Found Slain,” Newsday, February 1, 1966, 4. 

“Rooney Plans Sixth Marriage,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, “September 5, 1966, 50. 

Sease, Glenn, “People,” Pittsburgh Press, December 15, 1967, 2. 

Shearer, Lloyd, “Elaine Devry: What it Means to Be One of Mickey Rooney’s Six Wives,” Parade, January 29, 1967.

“Starlet Takes Sleeping Pills and Nude Dunk at Rooney’s Home,” The Tampa Times, August 12, 1958, 16.

“Tape Recording Sealed Death of Mrs. Rooney,” The Independent (Long Beach, CA), February 2, 16.