EXPLODING THE PHONE

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"The Southern New England Telephone Company presented some of its subscribers today with the antidisestablishmentarianism of phone numbers." :-) An article about how to reach long distance directory assistance

Keywords

Directory Assistance; Universal Information

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Describes the invention of the "silicon alloy junction diode" and says it "opens the way to operating telephone systems and computers with a speed 1,000 times faster than that of mechanical switches now in use."

Keywords

Bell Labs; Bell Telephone Laboratories; Bell Laboratories; transistor; pnpn; diode

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Where-are-they-now type article describing John Draper's life post phone phreaking. Discusses Jobs and Wozniak, EasyWriter, and Draper's time in Goa, India.

Keywords

John Thomas Draper; John T. Draper; John Draper; Captain Crunch; EasyWriter

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Report on McClellan Senate Investigations Committee on bookmaking. Describes cheese box, Walter Shaw

Keywords

cheese box; Walter Shaw; gambling

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ProQuest

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"Police raiders broke into a Bronx store late yesterday afternoon charging it was the headquarters for the manufacture of illegal telephone cheese-box devices used by bookmakers..."

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cheese box; James R. Kennnedy (police inspector); Thomas F. Murphy (police commissioner); gambling

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ProQuest

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New York gambling raids net black box; multiple arrests.

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gambling; black box; Archie J. Giannuzio (suspect); Ralph Barone (suspect); Mrs. Rosa Mosca (suspect); 234 Union Ave., Mamoroneck, NY; 88 First St., New Rochelle, NY; 359 South Fifth Ave., Mount Vernon, NY; Walter Shaw

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ProQuest

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New Jersey Bell detailed its involvement in AT&T's toll fraud surveillance program. Acknowledged monitoring 2.6 million telephone calls and recording 280,000.

Keywords

New Jersey Bell; Greenstar

Notes / See Also

We appear to be missing this document.

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Charges upgraded to felony against Robert Dunlap, 36, a college switchboard operator who admitted to selling more than $1 million worth of long distance calls using a blue box.

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New York University; New York Telephone Company (NYTCo); Robert Dunlap (arrested); blue box; switchboard; NYU; New York University

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New York gambling raid reveals wireless cheesebox.

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cheesebox; cheese box; Fred Fisher; Edward C. Chudy; gambling

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ProQuest

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Another New York gambling raid nets cheesebox; 2 suspects arrested.

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cheesebox; cheese box; August Hirsch; Arthur Carroll; gambling

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ProQuest

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Article compares and contrasts the histories of The Whistler and Captain Crunch.

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phone phreaks; AT&T; Joe Engressia; The Whistler; blue box; Mountain Bell; Captain Crunch; John Draper

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ProQuest

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Article describes the many ways that people defraud the telephone company, the costs associated with each type, and what the phone company is doing about it.

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blue box; American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T); H.W. Caming (AT&T lawyer); phone phreaks; Bernard Cornfeld (convicted); Lainie Kazan (convicted); Bob Cummings (accused); black box; red box; Bell Labs (BTL); Centralized Ticket Investigation Units (CTIU)

Notes / See Also

RLX01-001 contains an incomplete version of this article which has a clear copy of the photos which illustrate the piece.

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ProQuest

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New York Telephone Company demonstrates its anti-blue box technology. Article describes how blue boxes work and the history of the blue box technology.

Keywords

New York Telephone Company (NYTCo); phone phreaks; blue box; American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T); Bell Laboratories (BTL)

Notes / See Also

Second copy in ATT02-002

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ProQuest

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Article about the "rip off" lifestyle. "The best things in life are free, if you steal them from the bourgeoisie."

Keywords

Rip-off set; rip-off lifestyle

Notes / See Also

We only have the first two pages in hard copy, but full text in electronic format.

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Raid on New York gambling operation nets cheesebox; suspect arrested.

Keywords

cheesebox; cheese box; David R. Wassing; gambling

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ProQuest

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One-paragraph AP article stating that FBI raided four apartments in Washington confiscating a blue box.

Keywords

FBI; Washington, DC

Notes / See Also

Possibly related to one of our FBI files?

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Brief article from NYT "Patents" column describing a blue box detector.

Keywords

blue box; David C. Naylor; Northern Electric Company Ltd. (Montreal)

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Very brief AP article about computers at New England Telephone fighting fraud.

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Boston, MA; New England Telephone (NET); computers; toll fraud; Peter Cronin (spokesperson, NET)

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Financier Bernard Cornfeld indicted for using blue boxes to make fradulent overseas calls.

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Los Angeles, CA; Bernard Cornfeld (indicted); blue box; Beverly Hills, CA; London; Geneva; Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company (PTT); Investors Overseas Services (IOS); FBI

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ProQuest

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Obituary of Joybubbles

Keywords

Joybubbles; Joe Engressia

Notes / See Also

We have three complete copies of the original issue.

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New Jersey Bell Telephone Company defends its practices of monitoring and recording calls before the New Jersey State Board of Public Utility Commissioners.

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Newark, NJ; New Jersey Bell Telephone Co (NJBTCo); Rocco J. Marano (VP, NJBTCo); toll fraud; Donald J. Stevenson (Ass't VP, NJBTCo); blue box

Notes / See Also

Appears under slightly different title "Jersey Bell Gives Monitoring Data" in ATT file.

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ProQuest

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AT&T lawyer testifies before House panel, defends AT&T practice of monitoring and recording calls. Article contains statistics about number of cusotmer to customer calls vs. customer to AT&T; percentages of calls found to be fraudulent; number of calls using black box vs. blue.

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Washington, DC; American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T); H. W. William Caming (AT&T attorney); blue box; black box; Earl Conners (security chief, CPTCo); Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (CPTCo); Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Newark, NJ; Detroit, MI; St. Louis, MO; toll fraud

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ProQuest

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Blue box related charges against Ike Turner and two other defendants dismissed. Dennis Rubenstein convicted, fined and sentenced to probation.

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Inglewood, CA; Ike Turner; blue box; Dennis Rubenstein (convicted)

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AT&T monitored millions of calls, and recorded some, in an attempt to stop toll fraud.

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American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T); William Mullane (AT&T spokesman); New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Detroit, MI; Miami, FL; St. Louis, MO; Newark, NJ; toll fraud; blue box; Joseph F. Doherty (dir. corp. sec. AT&T NY)

Notes / See Also

Another copy can be found in ATT02-004

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ProQuest

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MIT graduate Raymond C. Straub, 27, arrested on charges of defrauding the phone company. Massachusetts State Police seized 200 blue boxes at Straub's Cambridge apartment.

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Raymond C. Straub; blue box; MIT; Cambridge, MA

Source

Alan Rubinstein

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Bernard Cornfeld found guilty on three counts of defrauding the telephone company.

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Bernard Cornfeld; Los Angeles; blue box; Investors Overseas Services (IOS)

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ProQuest

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9 students arrested after telephone company investigation finds that they made free long distance calls using blue boxes.

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Mineola, NY; Long Island, NY; New York Institute of Technology; Peter Mokover (suspect); Clarkson Institute of Technology; Potsdam, NY; State University of New York, Potsdam; 26 Henhawk Rd.; Lee Maisler (suspect); 29 Kings Point Rd., Great Neck, NY; Jonathan Wolfert (suspect); 5 Star Rd., Great Neck, NY; David Levy (suspect); 67-49 Kessel St., Forest Hills, Queens, NY; Elizabeth Dooley (suspect); 2061 St. Raymond's Ave., Bronx, NY; William Cotter (suspect); Robert Darling (suspect); Baldwinsville, NY; Marcy, NY; John Waston (suspect); Utica, NY; Mary McGill (suspect); Antwerp, NY; blue box

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ProQuest

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FBI arrests 2 suspects, searches residences of 3 others in raid to stop 9 city gambling ring using blue box. 3 additional arrested reported in error in earlier article.

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gambling; blue box; FBI; Miami; New York; Jersey City; Baltimore; Huntington, WV; Baton Rouge; New Orleans; Clarksdale, MS; Cleveland; Gilbert Lee Beckley (suspect); Morton Kane (suspect); Martin Skarloff (suspect); Kenneth Hanna (suspect); Nat Modell (suspect)

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ProQuest

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FBI breaks up 9 city bookmaking ring using blue box to avoid telephone charges; five people arrested.

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gambling; blue box; FBI; Miami; New York; Jersey City; Baltimore; Huntington, WV; Baton Rouge; New Orleans; Clarksdale, MS; Cleveland; Gilbert Lee Beckley (suspect); Morton Kane (suspect); Martin Skarloff (suspect); Kenneth Hanna (suspect); Nat Modell (suspect)

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ProQuest

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Son in California uses black box to talk with parent in New York toll free.

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black box; Fullerton, CA; Leslie Wilder (suspect); Benjamin Wilder (suspect); Rose Wilder (suspect)

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ProQuest

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Member of New York Telephone Company security group a suspect in investigation of bribery of police officers by gamblers. Details of 1955 wiretapping ring reviewed.

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wiretapping; Harold A. McElroy (suspect); New York Telephone Company; John Broady (suspect); Charles Gris (suspect); John Jacob Astor (wiretapping client); Charles Pfizer and Company (wiretapping client); Wildenstein Galleries (wiretapping client)

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ProQuest

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Grand jury indicts 13 in multi-state betting ring;4 telephone company co-consirators named.

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gambling; Benjamin Lassoff (suspect); Robert Lassoff (suspect); Myron Deckelbaum (suspect); Gilbert Lee Beckley (suspect); Alfred Mones (suspect); Sam Di Piazza (suspect); Louis E. Bagneris (suspect); Eugene A. Nolan (suspect); Charles A. Perez (suspect); Harold Brouphy (suspect); Anthony Giorioso (suspect); Alfred Reyn (suspect); Peter Joseph Martino (suspect); Albert E. Bagneris (co-conspirator); Vincent J. Caminita (co-conspirator); Simon Klayman (co-conspirator); Frank Marino (co-conspirator)

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ProQuest

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Two arrested in New York for use of cheesebox

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cheesebox; cheese box; gambling; Max Berger (suspect); William Heblich (suspect)

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ProQuest

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Texas appeals court overturns $3 million award to Ashley and T. O. Gravitt's widow.

Keywords

T. O. Gravitt; James Ashley

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Six women describe sexual encounters with Ashley and Gravitt

Keywords

T. O. Gravitt; James Ashley

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T. O. Gravitt commits suicide and leaves behind a note accusing Bell System of misdeeds.

Keywords

T. O. Gravitt; James Ashley

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Supreme Court says that AT&T is subject to the antitrust laws just like anyone else.

Keywords

AT&T; antitrust

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Analysis of the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust action against AT&T

Keywords

AT&T; antitrust

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AT&T settles antitrust case.

Keywords

AT&T; antitrust; Western Electric

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AT&T to begin disconnect MCI customers.

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AT&T; MCI

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CCIS put into place between Chicago and Madison.

Keywords

CCIS; Common Channel Interoffice Signaling

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Overview of the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 1974.

Keywords

Johnny Carson; toilet paper; Harold V. Froehlich

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June issue of Ramparts has been withdrawn from newsstands in the East and has not been delivered to Western dealers after PT&T threatened prosecution.

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500,000 AT&T workers scheduled to strike at 6 am tomorrow.

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AT&T; strike

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FCC announces a comprehensive investigation of AT&T's request for a major rate increase as well as its "mounting costs, charges of discriminatory hiring practices and the company's control of the Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary."

Keywords

FCC; Western Electric; discrimination

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"A New York Telephone Company executive admitted under questioning yesterday that service in three central offices with 210,000 subscribers would probably be worse at the end this year than it was at the end of 1968"... Discusses PLaza-8 problems

Keywords

New York, New York; telephone service

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Cries of frustration over erratic telephone service are being heard from more and more of the major metropolitan areas in the United States...

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telephone service; New York, New Yotk

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United States Court of Appeals overturns the FCC's ruling forbidding use of Hush-a-Phone, describes rule as "unwarranted interference."

Keywords

Hush-a-phone

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FCC issues final ruling once again saying that the "unrestricted use of the Hush-a-Phone could result in a general deterioration of the quality of interstate and foreign telephone service."

Keywords

Hush-a-phone

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Hush-a-phone filed an objection to the FCCs decision to uphold AT&T's ban on Hush-a-Phone.

Keywords

Hush-a-Phone

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FCC upholds AT&T regulations preventing foreign attachments. "Unrestricted use of the device could, in the commission's opinion, result in a general deterioration of the quality of telephone service."

Keywords

Hush-a-phone

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Walter Shaw arrested in Miami as black box inventor

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black box; gambling; Miami, FL; Walter Shaw (suspect); Southern Bell Telephone; Arthur Huttoe (Assistant State Atty)

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ProQuest

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Discussion of New Yorker telephone night habits, includes some cost figures.

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New York