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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:11 PM ”ON AMERICAN SOIL: How Justice Became A Casualty of World War II” Journalist and Author Jack Hamann to discuss his new book at the Los Angeles Press Club – Wednesday, February 1st 2006. On a hot August night in 1944, a soldier’s body was discovered hanging by a rope from a cable spanning an obstacle course at Seattle’s Fort Lawton. The body was identified as Private Guglielmo Olivotto, one of the thousands of Italian prisoners of war captured and brought to America. The murder…

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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:20 PM BY TED JOHNSON, ted@LApressclub.org Was Bugsy Siegel responsible for the murder of the Black Dahlia? That’s the conclusion posited by author Donald H. Wolfe in his new book “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles,” (Judith Regen Books, 2006), which he outlined in a Los Angeles Press Club event in January. Stepping into one of Los Angeles’ most notorious unsolved crimes, Wolfe is the latest writer to try to shed new light on the 59-year-old murder.…

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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:10 PM Kevin Sites, foreign correspondent for Yahoo News, has been chosen to receive the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. The award will be presented at the 48th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards to be held June 24, 2006, at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Sites, who has reported extensively from Iraq, marks the first time that the club has honored an online journalist with one of its most important awards. In recommending Sites for…

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Monday, January 16, 2006 8:54 AM

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Monday, January 16, 2006 8:54 AM BY DIANA LJUNGAEUS, diana@LApressclub.org Are you terrified your credit card records are among the millions stolen? Our non-profit became the unwitting conduit of credit card crooks in spite desperate attempts to involve local and federal authorities as the scam was unfolding. The good news is no Press Club or member information was stolen and the club was financially protected. But the episode caused a lot of frustration and lost work time. And we weren’t even the target. The scammers victimized 2,000 strangers who have…

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Monday, January 16, 2006 8:49 AM

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Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:19 PM By DIANNE BATES Jack Hamann started with a reporter’s hunch that “something wasn’t right” about a 43- year-old story he discovered while covering a routine assignment in 1987.The end result of his obsession with the story of the hanging in 1944 of Italian prisoner of war, Private Guglielmo Olivotto, in Washington State is the recently published book, American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of WW II. Hamaan’s quest also opened an inquiry into the resulting trail and court martials – bill HR 3174,…

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Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:19 PM BY CHRISTINE PALMA, christine@LApressclub.org When asked for her wish list, Executive Director Diana Ljungaeus put e-commerce, mailing list management, and revamped website at the top of immediate needs. The challenge for this one-person office has always been not having enough hours in a day. Last year, hackers forced the Press Club to shut down its online payment system. The new e-commerce site using Ebay’s Pro Stores engine will provide security and save the Club hundreds of manhours by making Quickbooks reconcilliation easier, and by…

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Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:15 PM BY CHRIS WOODYARD, chris@LApressclub.org Journalists face not only danger in the Iraq war, but hardship – from knowing the lives of their Iraqi interpreters and staff are constantly threatened to having had to file stories and pictures over the occasional objections from soldiers in the field, a packed audience was told at a emotional Press Club panel discussion. Three journalists and a California National Guard officer who served in Iraq on the panel, “To Live and Die in Iraq: The War – Three Years…

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