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Henry "Hank" Hicks Messick (August 14, 1922 - November 6, 1999) was an American investigative journalist and author, specializing in writing about organized crime. He was best known for his biography of Meyer Lansky. Messick was born in Happy Valley, North Carolina. He received a master's degree from the University of Iowa. He started his journalism career working at several newspapers in North Carolina. From 1957 to 1963 he worked at the Louisville Courier-Journal where he reported on the extensive illegal gambling activities in Newport, Kentucky. From 1963 to 1966 he worked at the Miami Herald, where he investigated police corruption. He briefly worked for the Boston Traveler in 1967, but was fired after investigating the business activities of Joseph Linsey, one of the newspapers shareholders and a former associate of mobster Charles "King" Solomon. He then worked full-time as an author, writing 19 books. He mostly wrote about organized crime in places outside New York City and Chicago, such as Kentucky, Florida, Bahamas, Cleveland and Hollywood.[1][2][3] Bibliography
References1. ^Hank Messick, Journalist And Author on Organized Crime The New York Times November 20, 1999[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/20/arts/hank-messick-journalist-and-author-on-organized-crime.html] 2. ^Obituaries: Hank Messick Los Angeles Times November 15, 1999 3. ^[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/05/20/the-mob-chaser-as-country-boy/0f94b6c1-afba-4e74-93c3-e0f5c8655ba6/ The Mob-Chaser As Country Boy The Washington Post May 20, 1978] AmericanMafia.com Sterling, Roemer and Messick: A Sad Farewell By Allan May {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Messick, Hank}} 7 : American investigative journalists|American male journalists|20th-century American journalists|Organized crime memoirists|Non-fiction writers about organized crime in the United States|1922 births|1999 deaths |
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