“… the end justifies the means…”

“Shivers”; Benny Goodman Sextet; Christian ; Hampton; Johnny Guarnieri; Charlie Christian; Artie Bernstein; Nick Fatool; Lionel Hampton; Benny Goodman; Columbia (35349); Publication date: December 20, 1939

“Baltimore Bounce”; Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) and his Orchestra; Sammy Low; Erskine Hawkins; Bluebird (B-10565-B); Publication date: December 20, 1939

“I Hadn’t Anyone Till You”; Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) and his Orchestra; Dolores Brown; Ray Noble; Bluebird (B-10565-A); Publication date: December 20, 1939

The New York Times, December 20, 1939

‘MYTH’ ABOUT LEPKE ASSAILED AT TRIAL

Defense, in Summing Up of Narcotics Case, Asks Jury to Forget Publicized Name

‘BREACH OF JUSTICE’ SEEN

Argument to Continue Today With Federal Pleas and Jury’s Charge to Follow

…there isn’t a person who lives in the City of New York who hasn’t heard stories about Lepke,hasn’t read them, hasn’t discussed them.”