Just to orient you, the eyes are going to be up here, the ear is going to be over here. The jury is still out. But there's no reason to worry because so far, the studies haven't proven anything. KING: Louis, would it be a simple solution, everyone should use an ear phone? KING: Can you break it down? In April 2004, Cochran underwent surgery, which led to his staying away from the media. Reacting to news of Cochran's death Tuesday, Jackson had kind words for the lawyer he considered "a great humanitarian. WebJohnnie Cochran - Address & Phone Number | Whitepages Johnnie Cochran We found 15 records for Johnnie Cochran in AL, GA and 5 other states. is POV and doesn't make any What is that? But I think now most of the people who actually do research on brain cancer causes are very skeptical that cell phones cause brain cancer. 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. That's ahead on LARRY KING LIVE. Meanwhile others may choose to apply the "precautionary principle." Journalist and author Jack Olsen reported that FBI "moles" had infiltrated defense sessions and monitored Cochran's phone calls. There's no known mechanism, but not necessarily no mechanism. Is there a best way to use a cell phone? 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. 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. The earner has no shutter. And I think pretty much everyone knows if you are x-rays all the time, that's not good. In some of these European studies, almost a four times increased likelihood of developing tumors like this one in people who are chronic cell phone users. Were cell phones to blame? Cell phones give off non-ionizing radiation. Death. You know, one of the most common presenting symptoms in an adult is new onset seizure, as well as headaches. Legal Statement. When a patient comes to the surgery, the focus is not what caused it. And others have said the same thing. I would like to point you to the long-term data that's coming out of the Interphone studies. What do you make of it? .css-m6thd4{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;display:block;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-family:Gilroy,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.2;font-weight:bold;color:#323232;text-transform:capitalize;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-m6thd4:hover{color:link-hover;}}Ken Starr. GUPTA: We don't know. Attorney at law. 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. Yet more controversy followed the lawyer when items from his personal life were publicly revealed. This was '92. Some will courageously take the risk and apply the device daily in their confidence that tomorrow will bring definitive acute care treatments. 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. KING: We're going to -- we're going to excuse Dr. Black for a couple of segments. Best Known For: Attorney Johnnie Cochran took on highly publicized police brutality cases and defended such celebrity clients as Michael Jackson and O. J. Simpson. In 1978, Cochran once again became part of the citys legal force when he joined the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, although he eventually returned to private practice. In 2004, Cochrans associates revealed that he was suffering from an undisclosed illness. I can think back at least five years ago when Dr. Black wore an ear piece back then. 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. "I read everything I could find about Thurgood Marshall and confirmed that a single dedicated man could use the law to change society.". Later, we'll get into a major discussion about cell phones and we'll include our own Dr. Sanjay Gupta. This is a phone people probably became most familiar with. And I think that there's enough sort of concern out there to at least prompt people to think more about how they use their cell phones, using earpieces, keeping it further away from the ear and things like that. Amidst much debate over the case, Cochran entered the national spotlight and became a celebrity himself, making screen appearances and writing his memoirs. Cochran's longtime mistress, Patricia Sikora, also spoke out against the attorney. Their conclusion: we just don't know. D. COCHRAN: I think perhaps there could be. ", He said other members of his defense team also deserved credit for his acquittal, but added: "Without Johnnie running the ball, I don't think there's a lawyer in the world that could have run that ball. (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. KING: You had to like Johnnie Cochran. We've reached saturation points. We could barely find them in the stores but he had one on and Johnny would say, listen if Dr. Black is wearing an ear piece, we should also. KHURANA: Absolutely. So we don't know how we speak yet or think. KHURANA: I do, Larry. Tory v. Cochran (search) involves a bitter ex-client who was ordered to never display a sign or speak about Cochran again. Or check out our newest web feature, about last night. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, 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. Pratt was convicted in 1972. And by the way, it's more important, most of the experts agreed, to pour millions of dollars into research for treatments for those who get the disease -- from causes unknown, unproven, or unconsidered -- rather than worry about a little thing called prevention. "And I knew that accepting it good-naturedly, even participating in it, helped soothe some of the angry feelings from the Simpson case.". We don't know that that will necessarily be a safe practice. GUPTA: Well, some of the studies that we've been talking about so far this hour talk about this specific sort of tumor and it's possible association here. They got smaller, as you can see. They were not sure what the abnormality on the MRI scan demonstrated. Wir freuen uns, Ihnen das brandneue Lego 41027 einfhren zu drfen! The weight of the evidence is negative. Name: Lawrence Edward Baslee Jr. Age: 56 Arrested: 1/23/2014. Is that really safe? KING: So do Dale and Dr. Black think there's a link between cell phones and Johnnie Cochran's brain tumor? In fact, Sanjay is going to do a little exercise for us in the growth of an industry. It gives you an opportunity to do interesting things. It doesn't fit. BLACK: It was in the skull, yes. In a trial that involved celebrity and domestic abuse, the Simpson trial became best known for dividing the country along racial lines. Now that we're back, I can't help but wonder, if the most important thing is finding treatments, then where was the outcry when the FDA tried to close down a Texas doctor who was successfully treating the disease? GUPTA: It's a trip down memory lane, if you will. He's Australia's -- the head of the Interphone arm that is incorporating Australian research. GUPTA: Yes, I do. D. COCHRAN: Well, I think it's an enigma. They do give off less radiation than a cell phone, but wearing it all the time could be a problem. 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. KING: Johnnie Cochran probably was one of the best known attorneys in the United States. While we're waiting ten years to find out whether radiating RFs into the head (or the area adjacent to the genitals) is good or bad, should we suffer the inconvenience of minimizing cell phone use? Legal Statement. Phone 2030 120 s. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KING: Welcome back to LARRY KING LIVE. So surgery, at least to try to remove all of the tumor that we could see on the MRI scan, was not one of the initial treatment options. I'm sorry. He was 67. They went down in this non- ionizing radio frequency as well, which was a good thing, I think, by everyone's admission. And I think particularly among young people who are logging, you know, thousands of hours KING: Teenagers? GUPTA: Keep it away from your body. Even as a child, he had loved to argue, and in high school he excelled in debate. Things were changing, the size of the phone, the quality of the phone, but also the amount of radiation it gave off. Is that true? For young kids out there, it's a great career. Around this time, Cochran began to build a reputation for taking on cases involving questionable police actions against African Americans. Yes. or redistributed. KING: He's still living? But if you start to say well, look, wait a second, how about if it's 10 years, how about it's 20, 30, 40 years KING: We don't know yet. The family moved to California in 1943, where the younger Cochran eventually excelled as a student in what was becoming a more racially integrated environment. CTIA also referred to us the American Cancer Society for more comments on this topic. D. COCHRAN: I got concerned right away that he couldn't remember my telephone number. During their divorce, it came to light that for 10 years Cochran had secretly maintained a "second family," which included a son. WebHis attorney, Johnnie Cochran, argued that the charges should be dropped. 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. KING: And how far has the -- SLESIN: What we're missing is the understanding of how this could possibly work. KING: Is that considered high? KING: You are watching LARRY KING LIVE. The precautionary principle is a fancy version of the old (unproven) adage "better safe than sorry.". And I spoke with Johnnie and also with Dale and they flew back to Los Angeles, where we did further diagnostic studies. But first, if the manual says keep it in some sort of holster and keep it away from your ear, would you say the manufacturer is worried about something, Dr. Schwartz? I'm going to spin that brain around and take you to a very specific part of it. WebJohnnie Cochran's widow speaks publicly for the first time since her husband's death. 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." The science would suggest that they were actually all safe. The following decade, Cochran won a huge, unprecedented court payment for a 13-year-old molested by an officer. Until the research has been done, it would be presumptuous to make a judgment call. Simpson in his trial for the murders of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. And unfortunately, you know, as you showed at the beginning of the show, there's a billion people, you know, that will be using cell phones and they will be using cell phones for many years. KHURANA: OK, Sedesky (ph) from Israel, the Israel arm of Interphone, this is what she says: "a positive dose response trend was found. Upon passing the bar, Cochran worked as a deputy criminal prosecutor in Los Angeles. Dr. Thun, do you think this one is safer than that one? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOHNNIE COCHRAN, ATTORNEY: It makes no sense. KING: Dr. Black? First, what do you think of the theory of the possibility of the cell phone causing brain cancer? Dr. Gupta is our chief CNN medical correspondent, himself is a practicing neurosurgeon. Do you see, Dale, as a lay person, the possibility of cell phone use and Johnnie's illness? @@*@@* FILE @@*@@*Attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. holds onto O.J. KING: Dr. Gupta, what do you make of what Dr. Khurana just said? Simpson's lead attorney Tuesday, saying he abruptly halted support payments after she discussed their relationship on television. 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. It used to come in a bag. I would not want to be a heavy user of a mobile phone. Click here to go to our international version. 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? But, basically, this is a tumor of the inner ear and -- there you go, Larry. And when patients or people were exposed to over 2,000 hours of cell phone use -- which is about an hour a day for 10 years -- that study reported about a 3.7-fold increase in the risk of developing brain cancer. He meant everything to me. Every morning when I get up, when I look at all the choices of things I could be, I love being a lawyer. who was arrested for speeding and later found dead in his cell. KING: Run them down. This was the Motorola flip phone. And the other doctors will remain and he will return with Dale Cochran. The food -- by the way, we'll show you a screen effect here. So, you know, tumors that are closer to that area may be more likely. Cochran died of an inoperable brain tumor at his home in Los Angeles, his family said. No one mentioned any study demonstrating the efficacy of either ear pieces or holsters, nor apparently considered whether radiating the region of the hips and sexual organs is preferable to radiating the brain. 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. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. A brain tumor killed the famed attorney and father of three at the age of 67. Simpson (search) against murder Re bushing Shuman machine co. D. COCHRAN: Cedars-Sinai Johnny Cochran Brain Tumor Center. Both defense attorneys Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran believed from the outset that Simpson was guilty, Toobin says. His family was by his side and he had been in a hospice, Epps said. KING: Somebody is scared. Joining us now from Washington, Dr. Michael Thun of the American Cancer Society, vice president of epidemiology and surveillance. KING: There are a lot of don'ts. 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. People that work in plastic factories -- as Dale said, I think one of the things that we're very excited about is not only trying to identify potential causes that we can eliminate, but also trying to find effective treatments and cures at the Johnny Cochran Brain Tumor Center. That's the founding editor and publisher of Microwave News, maybe the major publication in this field. BLACK: I actually received a call from Johnnie's assistant, as Dale indicated, concerned about his difficulty with memory and also some difficulty with speech. Another neurosurgeon joins us. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KING: Joining our panel from New York is Dr. Ted Schwartz. So I guess it's your call! And I think it's possible. It goes down to his phone. They declined. KING: How do children's phones, Dr. Black, differ from -- children's brains, rather, differ from adults? And the concern is not just brain tumors, but other health effects associated or reported to be associated with cell phones, including behavioral disturbances, salivary gland tumors, male infertility and microwave sickness syndrome. BLACK: Larry, typically no. He asked his secretary to call me and get me on the phone because he couldn't remember the phone number to the house. Cochran died at his home in Los Angeles, his family said. This was the question that Larry King posed this week to Dena Cochran, the widow of Johnnie Cochran (who died of the disease), as well as to a group of five This is due to failing a drug test and violating bail conditions, earlier this month. Yet. Gender. I knew that he had a very serious malignant tumor, but I didn't look at it in terms of being terminal. SCHWARTZ: Yes, there's no problem with using ear phones. WebLindstrom visits the Burns house to return Gracie's gloves that she left on the train. KING: Dr. Khurana, you want to respond? This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. This is the early '80s. So caution should be our guide. Simpson, meanwhile, was held liable for the killings following a 1997 civil trial and ordered to pay the Brown and Goldman families $33.5 million in restitution. "Cell phones operate with radio frequencies, RFs. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Meanwhile, wear an earpiece, or holster and all will be well, the doctors said. The environment is important, but ultimately, government mandates cannot protect our And it's only on LARRY KING LIVE. (END VIDEO CLIP) KING: Dr. Gupta, Dr. Khurana and Dr. Thun remain with us. 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 congratulations to Jeff in Freemont, Nebraska. But -- and that's been one of the red flags that has raised concerns among people that are looking into this, whether there is a correlation because, you know, we see tumors developing in the location -- close to the location that people do use cell phones. Simpson, who had expanded his career to acting since retiring from the NFL, was arrested in the summer of 1994 on charges he murdered his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson (search), and her friend Ron Goldman (search ). Cochran, who died in 2005, also is a central character on the FX series American Crime Story: The People Vs. O.J. 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