The control group uses cell phones. And, actually, before he developed the tumor that was ultimately more aggressive, I was treating Johnnie for a more benign tumor a few years before. And if you use your phone all the time -- like I -- you know, people in the news business, they have a cell phone to the ear all the time. Simpson. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KING: Remaining with us, Dr. Keith Black, chairman of department of neurosurgery at Cedar-Sinai, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent and a neurosurgeon himself, in Australia, Dr. Vini Khurana, neurosurgeon, associate professor of neurosurgery at Canberra Hospital. Click here to go to our international version. Upon passing the bar, Cochran worked as a deputy criminal prosecutor in Los Angeles. KING: And how far has the -- SLESIN: What we're missing is the understanding of how this could possibly work. WebWhen evidence led police to suspect O.J. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. BLACK: Well, the -- in the developing brain, you have a lot more dividing nerve cells and supportive cells in the brain. BLACK: It does, Larry. Dr. Black, do you have questions about portable phones, cordless phones? Male. So just because it's -- you know, you have a tumor, doesn't mean that it's linked to cell phones. During the early 1980s, he oversaw a settlement for the family of African American football player Ron Settles, who died in a police cell under questionable circumstances. And I would under -- I would hope that most people are aware of what that is. But we don't have all the answers. He was in New York at the time and had been admitted to a hospital in New York. BLACK: Headaches. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, KING: You had to like Johnnie Cochran. This big white mass, that is what's an acoustic neuroma -- a tumor of the specific nerve in that inner ear area. They got smaller, as you can see. He was 67. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TIFFANY COCHRAN EDWARDS, JOHNNIE COCHRAN'S DAUGHTER: He was such a wonderful man. I was innocent, but he believed it. The Nokia a few years later, this was '98, and then '99 and then 2001. DR. KEITH BLACK, NEUROSURGEON, CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER, JOHNNIE COCHRAN'S PHYSICIAN: Larry, memory loss can be a cause of concern. GUPTA: They come with the phone. And I think it's quite sensible for people who are concerned to use an ear phone and to basically eliminate their exposure. D. COCHRAN: Yes, he was on the phone a lot. What do you base it on? His first marriage, to his college sweetheart, Barbara Berry, produced two daughters, Melodie and Tiffany. Select the best result to KING: Dr. Gupta, what do you make of what Dr. Khurana just said? Simpson as a not guilty verdict is read in a Los Angeles courtroom in this file photo taken Oct. 3, 1995. KING: Dr. Gupta, do you use a cell phone? Did he die at home? BLACK: That's considered, you know, a significant increase, although the overall incidence of brain cancer is low. Santa Rita has a higher jail death rate than Los Angeles Here is a look at the people who died: 2014: 10 DEATHS. WebHis attorney, Johnnie Cochran, argued that the charges should be dropped. We don't know about mechanisms. So, you know, I think the safe practice is to use an earpiece so that you keep the microwave antenna away from your head. And finally, not wearing one of these non- ionizing Bluetooth things all the time. God bless you. How did he become your patient, doctor? Is that really safe? WebTuesday, Apr. A judge reportedly issued the warrant on Thursday, And the studies that have found an association, some of them have found such a strong association that they really don't fit at all with the time course of brain cancer in the United States. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOHNNIE COCHRAN, ATTORNEY: It makes no sense. KING: What were his last days like? GUPTA: We don't know. As prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden sparred with Simpson's defense attorney, the late Johnnie Cochran, Kim desperately hoped for a conviction. KING: He's still living? Take a look at this thing, it's just huge. They saw an abnormality within the brain. His client list included former "Diff'rent Strokes" star Todd Bridges, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Michael Jackson (search), who is now facing child molestation charges, and former football great Simpson. And he was Johnnie Cochran's doctor. That day, Simpson's charismatic lawyer, Johnnie Cochran, coined a phrase that would become an enduring motto in pop culture: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." Upon Simpson trying on bloodied gloves that prosecutors alleged were used during the murder, Cochran came up with a phrase that would become famous: If it doesnt fit, you must acquit. Under the auspices of Bailey, who had a private investigator background, the team also discovered that detective Mark Fuhrman had made racist, highly incendiary remarks about African-American citizens. WebThe direction in which the camera la facing and the taking of the pictures ure controlled through the tube from the outside. Furthermore, this is the public position of leading health organizations, such as the United States Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, the American Cancer Society, ACS, and the World Health Organization, WHO. I really think the overwhelming amount of evidence that we have from reviewing the literature has shown there really is no good, viable link between cell phone use and brain tumors. Tory v. Cochran (search) involves a bitter ex-client who was ordered to never display a sign or speak about Cochran again. First, to use cell phones less often and to use land lines whenever possible. I would like to point you to the long-term data that's coming out of the Interphone studies. I use cell phones. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. For a time, he represented high-profile athletes and music stars in contract matters. Firemen have an occupational risk of brain cancer because of diesel exposure. Dr. Thun, do you think this one is safer than that one? Attorney Johnnie Cochran took on highly publicized police brutality cases and defended such celebrity clients as Michael Jackson and O. J. Simpson. BLACK: Well, I think it's very difficult, Larry, to make a direct correlation between an individual developing a brain tumor and the use of cell phones. That's ahead on LARRY KING LIVE. He appeared on Court TVs Inside Americas Courts and was also featured on a number of TV programs, including Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Chris Rock Show and The Roseanne Show as well as the Spike Lee film Bamboozled (2000). Cell phones give off non-ionizing radiation. ", Cochran represented former Black Panther Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. And, again, you know, although there hasn't been any definitive studies, there have been some studies that show a correlation between the side that you use a cell phone on and the side that you use KING: If it's the left side, you're going to get it on the left side? The different studies produced different results, canceling each other out. He won a $760,000 award in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Ron Settles, a black college football star who died in police custody in 1981. Simpson of the murder, he was ordered to surrender by 11 am on june 17 Simpson did not surrender vanished, but was tracked down later in the day when he made a call from his cell phone on the Santana Ana freeway. Go to CNN.com/larryking and take our quick vote. And, you know, if people use their cell phones for years and years and kids start using them, they're going to use them their whole lifetime. KING: How did you find out what he had? Dr. Keith Black and Dr. Sanjay Gupta remain with us. Simpson was found not guilty of murder. KING: Want to know what the American Cancer Society thinks about cell phones? He is editor of MicrowaveNews.com. WebJohnnie Cochran - Death. And you're putting a heat source, essentially, close to your ear, close to your brain for, you know, again, long periods of time, depending on how long you use it. Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads, Name: Johnnie Cochran, Birth Year: 1937, Birth date: October 2, 1937, Birth State: Louisiana, Birth City: Shreveport, Birth Country: United States. He asked his secretary to call me and get me on the phone because he couldn't remember the phone number to the house. Around this time, Cochran began to build a reputation for taking on cases involving questionable police actions against African Americans. KING: One type of tumor often mentioned in the discussion of potential risk of cell phones is acoustic neuroma. Most people do. In 1994, Cochran joined Alan Dershowitz, F. Lee Bailey, Robert Shapiro, Barry Scheck and Robert Kardashian to form the core of the so-called dream team of lawyers hired to defend athlete/actor O.J. You remember early cell phones. Rather than a tumor, he called his ailment a neurological condition requiring a procedure. So it's possible for a cell to get an injury and then migrate to a different location within the brain, as well. KING: Use it? It gives me an opportunity if I want to go into politics. We strive for accuracy and fairness.If you see something that doesn't look right,contact us! KING: But later you did use surgery, right? DR. LOUIS SLESIN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, "MICROWAVE NEWS": Well, the first thing is that it is quite possible because we're seeing these kinds of effects in a number of epidemiological studies on this Interphone study mentioned on the program. D. COCHRAN: He died at home. Pratt was convicted and imprisoned, while Cochran maintained that the activist was railroaded by authorities, pushing for a retrial. By the time Simpson called, the byword in the black community for defendants facing serious charges was: "Get Johnnie. Johnnie Cochran turned out to be right, famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz, a member of the Simpson defense team, said in 2005. KING: One of the problems, Dr. Khurana, is almost everybody has a cell phone. That's what people should do. What do you make of it? In 1959, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and later attended Loyola Marymount University Law School, graduating in 1962. LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, cell phones and cancer -- is there a link? And that's what we've done. Born in Shreveport, La., the great-grandson of slaves, grandson of a sharecropper and son of an insurance salesman, Cochran came to Los Angeles with his family in 1949. KING: But that was not a death signal? KING: When they see keep it in the holster, that means keep it away from your body. It sort of drops off in terms of the amount of radiation you're exposed to. THUN: I think it produces less emissions, but I think that this is a little bit missing the point. And my concern is that with the widespread use of cell phones, I think the worst scenario would be that we get the definitive study ten years from now and we find there's a correlation. KING: Now, I'm told that -- I'm not an expert on this so I'm going to read it. Secondly, we know that in the country that's used cell phones for the longest, which is Sweden -- they came in the early 1980's and the early cell phones were -- had much higher emissions than today's cell phones. His magic worked. By mid-decade, hed entered private practice with Gerald Lenoir and soon launched a firm of his own, Cochran, Atkins & Evans. KING: Can you break it down? The jury is still out. D. COCHRAN: We knew it was serious, but we thought it was treatable and that, you know, we should work our way out of it. Hardly anyone ever reads these safety manuals. When a patient comes to the surgery, the focus is not what caused it. Simpson (search) against murder D. COCHRAN: Yes, I think people are concerned. This advancement opens up new avenues for medical research and the possibility of transplantation therapies for conditions such as neurodegenerative diseases KING: So do Dale and Dr. Black think there's a link between cell phones and Johnnie Cochran's brain tumor? It's hard to say. He got David Cook's set completely correct. ``I don't know why he turned against me, why he cut me off, why he would want to see me hurt,'' a tearful He briefly became a special assistant to the Los Angeles County district attorney in the 1970s, setting up a unit to prosecute domestic violence cases. Larry, we're going to go inside the ear here to the inner part over here. Their conclusion: we just don't know. That is one of the problems with the Interphone study, which is the World Health Organization study between 13 countries. It is a great pleasure to welcome to LARRY KING LIVE Dale Cochran, the widow of the famed attorney, the late Johnnie Cochran. WebJohnnie Cochran's widow speaks publicly for the first time since her husband's death. Please use the form below to contact us by email, or pick up the phone and call us at 1.800.THE FIRM (1.800.843.3476) You have a limited time to pursue compensation. Peter Leeds appears as Mr. Garland. They went down in this non- ionizing radio frequency as well, which was a good thing, I think, by everyone's admission. They certainly cause car accidents. I am proud to have called him my friend.". His clients also included Haitian immigrant Abner Louima, who was tortured by New York police, and Tyisha Miller, a 19-year-old black woman shot to death by Riverside police who said she reached for a gun on her lap when they broke her car window in an effort to disarm her. Cochran continued to take on new cases into the new millennium, ranging from work for clients like Abner Louima, who was tortured while in New York City police custody, and rapper/music mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs, to an anti-trust litigation issued against racing giant NASCAR. That's not much cell phone usage, is it? That is a tumor that comes off one of the specific nerves in the inner ear. Not probably, he was one of the best known attorneys. Dale Cochran's First Interview Since the Death of Her Husband Johnnie; Is There a Link Between Cell Phones and Cancer? THUN: You are absolutely right. This is a great, exhilarating victory for Sean Combs. fame, said that this case, the case of Geronimo ji-Jaga, was the most important of his life, and the happiest day was the day that he was released. Do you see, Dale, as a lay person, the possibility of cell phone use and Johnnie's illness? What's known about the impact of RF on human tissue?" He remained a beloved figure in the black community, admired as a lawyer who was relentless in his pursuit of justice and as a philanthropist who helped fund a UCLA scholarship, a low-income housing complex and a New Jersey legal academy, among other charitable endeavors. And I think I should quote them. GUPTA: Ionizing is like the x-rays and things like that. KING: So you should check it out, any symptom? So those brains are much more susceptible. The precautionary principle is a fancy version of the old (unproven) adage "better safe than sorry.". As Dr. Gupta has pointed out, their quantification of what constitutes regular use is itself quite alarming. And I think that given the research and break throughs we are now making in cancer and brain cancer in particular, one of the positive outcomes is that if we can get more research funding, we can accelerate finding an effective treatment for this disease. "People in New York and Los Angeles, especially mothers in the African-American community, are more afraid of the police injuring or killing their children than they are of muggers on the corner," he once said. Meanwhile, wear an earpiece, or holster and all will be well, the doctors said. If cell phone use was a factor, wouldn't there be evidence on that side?" BLACK: No, no Larry, I'm not. Yet we know that we do. Since gaining a reputation in Ebony magazine as "the best in the West" in the early 1980s, Cochran eventually became the go-to guy for black celebrities in trouble. BLACK: Yes. KING: Dr. Black, from the place where Johnnie's tumor was, was that at a place where it might be near where a cell phone would operate by the ear? Things were changing, the size of the phone, the quality of the phone, but also the amount of radiation it gave off. KING: Headaches? So, you know, one's brain tumor may be or it may not be related to a particular type of environmental insult. Time now for Anderson Cooper and "A.C. 360" -- Anderson. Health, food and environmental journalist; radio host, Progressive Radio Network. ET) at his home in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, you know, my suspicion is that it's going to be five years or 10 years before we have a definitive answer. It provides sensation to the rest of the body. Meanwhile others may choose to apply the "precautionary principle." But I think it's one of those things where you recognize that this is a -- it's a non-ionizing, microwave producing device that we carry around with us all the time. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I wouldn't blame the cell phone companies. WebJohnnie Cochran - Address & Phone Number | Whitepages Johnnie Cochran We found 15 records for Johnnie Cochran in AL, GA and 5 other states. Cochran died in Los Angeles March 29, 2005 after a long illness. Brad here has a wired ear piece in his left ear. Two hundred and fifty-five million users want to know, what are the risks? (END VIDEO CLIP) KING: Dale Cochran, you have heard a lot of the discussion tonight. We have a little montage here for you. Dr. Gupta is at the big board again with some tips on safer cell phone use. In the March 8 episode "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia," it was revealed that Johnnie Cochran's ex-wife, Barbara Jean Berry, had accused him of domestic violence, a claim which he denied. This was '92. "And I knew that accepting it good-naturedly, even participating in it, helped soothe some of the angry feelings from the Simpson case.". Cochran received hate mail and death threats. Although he frequently took police departments on in court, Cochran denied being anti-police and supported the decision of his only son, Jonathan, to join the California Highway Patrol. They say that makes it the most safe. We had actually vacationed together on summer vacations with our mutual families. KING: Is the Johnny Cochran Brain Tumor Center -- we were there at its opening. Next, a doctor who stands by that statement. Watch. And congratulations to Jeff in Freemont, Nebraska. This was a phone from 1983. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. WebLego 41027 - Der TOP-Favorit unserer Produkttester. Cochran signed on as part of a "dream team" of lawyers defending the Hall of Famer. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA (voice Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. was born on October 2, 1937, in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Hattie and Johnnie L. Cochran Sr. Is that true? "I read everything I could find about Thurgood Marshall and confirmed that a single dedicated man could use the law to change society.". Cochran died in 2005 a decade before the upheavals that made police brutality and the unfair treatment of African American men by the justice system impossible to ignore. Also, some of the studies say regular cell phone use is using it one time a week for six months. But there have been other studies to show no correlation. I don't know what you think about this whole subject. KING: You are watching LARRY KING LIVE. And we immediately went to see a doctor in the next day or two. In one of the most controversial scenes so far in the blockbuster FX series, The People Vs O.J. KING: Is that memory loss a major cause of concern, Dr. Black? Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. He's Dr. Vini Khurana. 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