After returning to private practice, Cochran built his firm into a personal injury giant with more than 100 lawyers and offices around the country. I think it's, you know, it's one of those things where, you know, I use a cell phone all the time. In legal circles, the verdict represented the pinnacle of success for a respected attorney who had toiled in the Los Angeles legal profession for three decades. KING: Sanjay, what does the manual say? DR. TED SCHWARTZ, NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: I don't really think they are worried about brain tumors. Simpson. BLACK: I use a cell phone, but I always use an earpiece. And I think particularly among young people who are logging, you know, thousands of hours KING: Teenagers? Each study may have some flaw to the study. And while there hasn't been an increase in the rate of brain cancers overall, we have to also remember that they do take time before they are registered in local registries and that data has to be correlated and eventually that data will come through. 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? KING: Did Johnnie know he was passing? 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. 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. This advancement opens up new avenues for medical research and the possibility of transplantation therapies for conditions such as neurodegenerative diseases Some studies found a problem, while others did not. 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. So it's possible for a cell to get an injury and then migrate to a different location within the brain, as well. He died from a brain tumor on March 29, 2005, at the age of 67. And, again, we knew it was serious, but we were trying to keep him as comfortable and maintain a good quality of life for him in the last days. In 1966, a Black motorist named Leonard Deadwyler, while attempting to get his pregnant wife to a hospital, was killed by police officer Jerold Bova. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA (voice ob. D. COCHRAN: Yes, you were. KING: Is that considered high? BLACK: Initially, Johnny's tumor was in an area that is considered not safe to operate on, Larry. Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. was born on October 2, 1937, in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Hattie and Johnnie L. Cochran Sr. It gives you an opportunity to do interesting things. Dr. Black, do you have questions about portable phones, cordless phones? There's no known mechanism, but not necessarily no mechanism. The earner has no shutter. 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. 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. 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. They may be using cordless phones as well, which we also know are risk factors based on data. Dale Cochran's First Interview Since the Death of Her Husband Johnnie; Is There a Link Between Cell Phones and Cancer? So you can't run a comparison like tobacco and lung cancer, the user and the nonuser. Santa Rita has a higher jail death rate than Los Angeles Here is a look at the people who died: 2014: 10 DEATHS. KING: Is this much safer than that? Also with us is Dr. Keith Black, one of the major figures in neurosurgery in this country. D. COCHRAN: Um-hmm. For a time, he represented high-profile athletes and music stars in contract matters. Here's the ear. KING: But if it is a cause and can be helped by using ear phones why not? That is what they recommend. He spent two years in the Los Angeles city attorney's office before establishing his own practice. Things were changing, the size of the phone, the quality of the phone, but also the amount of radiation it gave off. And he was Johnnie Cochran's doctor. He counted among his closest friends Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks, the city's former police chief, and the late Mayor Tom Bradley, who had been a Los Angeles police lieutenant before going into politics. KING: On a regular basis, every day? So you all were suspicious? I knew that he had a very serious malignant tumor, but I didn't look at it in terms of being terminal. First, Dr. Schwartz, we don't even know how we think. We know that it causes lung cancer by the statistical rate. KING: Use it? 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. But there have been other studies to show no correlation. D. COCHRAN: I got concerned right away that he couldn't remember my telephone number. It goes down to his phone. GUPTA: It's hard to say. FOX News' Jane Roh and The Associated Press contributed to this report. When Cochran helped Pratt win his freedom in 1997 he called the moment "the happiest day of my life practicing law.". called in during that show. Then, on October 15, 1995, the jury returned the not guilty verdict that divided the nation. Health, food and environmental journalist; radio host, Progressive Radio Network. GUPTA: Yes, I do. While Cochran never argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, a case involving him is on the docket this session. This month, sadly, one of the parties in the case - famed attorney Johnnie Cochran - died. KING: That's Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. 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. GUPTA: Yes, I think so. The trial left many of those certain of Simpson's guilt furious at Cochran, the leader of a group of expensive celebrity lawyers that included F. Lee Bailey, Robert Shapiro, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. GUPTA: It's interesting. So we're really talking about a very different type of emission that is sort of the halfway between an FM radio and the microwave. 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. There have been studies that come down on both sides of the issue. Also, some of the studies say regular cell phone use is using it one time a week for six months. 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 Food and Drug Administration made recommendations about cell phone use. By mid-decade, hed entered private practice with Gerald Lenoir and soon launched a firm of his own, Cochran, Atkins & Evans. D. COCHRAN: Yes, he was on the phone a lot. And his doctor says cell phones may have played a part in his disease. Were cell The food -- by the way, we'll show you a screen effect here. LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Johnnie Cochran Jr.'s former mistress filed a palimony lawsuit against O.J. Before he leaves us -- he will be returning with Dana Cochran. Even as a child, he had loved to argue, and in high school he excelled in debate. This is a Motorola phone. 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. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Let me just read you something here, Larry. What do you make of it? BLACK: Larry, typically no. Ton can buy a new 1953 Ford 2-door Sedan delivered in 174q Ardmore for a 1177 Sam p. Hale phone 708 since 1911 balancing. KING: One type of tumor often mentioned in the discussion of potential risk of cell phones is acoustic neuroma. GUPTA: Ionizing is like the x-rays and things like that. who was arrested for speeding and later found dead in his cell. BLACK: Teenagers and even younger -- and they will be using cell phones for 20 or 30 years, we do not have enough data now to say that, you know, that is a safe device. And, you know, I think, for the most part, people watching who use a cell phone will be just fine. Before dying, Cochran said he thought his cell phone caused his brain cancer. KING: Dale, did you know he was terminal? 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. KING: When something happens like to Senator Ted Kennedy, that focuses more effort on it, doesn't it, more attention? D. COCHRAN: That's all right. It's the long-term data we should be looking at. 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. Cochran's longtime mistress, Patricia Sikora, also spoke out against the attorney. We have a little montage here for you. For example, in Australia, there are 22 million cell phones and 21 million people. What is that? KING: Thanks, Sanjay. It was an historic moment because O.J. OK, let's move to the subject at hand. WebJohnnie Cochran lost his fight against brain cancer earlier this year. KING: More information go to what? So caution should be our guide. "And I knew that accepting it good-naturedly, even participating in it, helped soothe some of the angry feelings from the Simpson case.". And I really want to focus on a couple of issues, which is that, you know, when a patient comes into your office with a brain tumor, and they are very scared; they are afraid as to what caused this brain tumor, it's very important to focus a patient's attention and to focus the nation's attention not on this potentially very remote cause of brain tumors, but on trying to think about new treatment options and trying to get the nation to focus on how can we treat brain tumors, rather than this very remote cause of brain tumors. And the FDA also recommends keeping cell phones away from your head by using a speaker phone or using a head set or other connection to remote antenna. (The conviction was eventually overturned after more than two decades. BLACK: Well, Larry, I think if we look at the evidence that we have now, it's difficult to say that cell phones have a direct link to brain cancer, but it's also difficult to say that they're safe. This is a great, exhilarating victory for Sean Combs. A brain tumor killed the famed attorney and father of three at the age of 67. It used to come in a bag. Is that true? KING: Thank you so much, Dr. Sanjay -- Dr. Sanjay Gupta. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TIFFANY COCHRAN EDWARDS, JOHNNIE COCHRAN'S DAUGHTER: He was such a wonderful man. WebAccording to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average time between first exposure to a cancer-causing agent and clinical recognition of the disease "The clients I've cared about the most are the No Js, the ones who nobody knows," said Cochran, who proudly displayed copies in his office of the multimillion-dollar checks he won for ordinary citizens who said they were abused by police. Dr. Thun, do you think this one is safer than that one? WebOne notorious case The Cochran Firm tried was in 2004, when the firm's attorneys, representing Francis Ferko and accomplices, were able to bully NASCAR into eliminating its Grand Slam by forcing NASCAR to surrender the Mountain Dew Southern 500 in Darlington, SC, and giving a new date to Texas Motor Speedway. Johnnie Cochran's widow speaks publicly for the first time since her husband's death. So I guess it's your call! 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. KING: And how far has the -- SLESIN: What we're missing is the understanding of how this could possibly work. GUPTA: We don't know. That is a tumor that comes off one of the specific nerves in the inner ear. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOHNNIE COCHRAN, ATTORNEY: It makes no sense. WebMay 29, 2008 43 Dislike Share Save domi1928 580 subscribers http://www.purewaterfreedom.com/ http://www.electropollution.org Larry king Live - Cell ", Cochran represented former Black Panther Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Often times, these phone come with a holster. Because of widespread coverage of the Simpson trial, Cochran entered the superstar realm of celebrity, reportedly receiving a $2.5 million advance to write his memoirs. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If it is conclusive that it can cause brain tumors, then I think there should be some sort of a warning. KING: So do Dale and Dr. Black think there's a link between cell phones and Johnnie Cochran's brain tumor? BLACK: We did a biopsy, yes. All rights reserved. Cochran signed on as part of a "dream team" of lawyers defending the Hall of Famer. Two quick things, Lewis. Around this time, Cochran began to build a reputation for taking on cases involving questionable police actions against African Americans. Shapiro, who is white, had accused Cochran of playing the race card and of dealing it "from the bottom of the deck.". KING: All right, Dr. Gupta, Dr. Black says it's possible. They were not sure what the abnormality on the MRI scan demonstrated. BLACK: Well, there is a base line rate of people developing tumors. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. I don't know what you think about this whole subject. "Cell phones operate with radio frequencies, RFs. Simpson in his trial for the murders of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. We don't know about mechanisms. As prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden sparred with Simpson's defense attorney, the late Johnnie Cochran, Kim desperately hoped for a conviction. So we know that there is KING: You can't discuss an individual case then? Did he die at home? BLACK: Again, I think the emissions from cordless phones in the house are very low, and I would be less concerned with those than cell phones. KING: Is that something that you would possibly associate with cell phones? Shortly thereafter, he told the New York Post he was feeling well, and that he was in good health. KING: You are watching LARRY KING LIVE. And it's only on LARRY KING LIVE. Cochran thus made controversial closing statements in which he compared the detectives philosophy to that of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. So that -- you know, that option wasn't one of the weapons that we could use to fight the tumor. LOS ANGELES Famed attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. (search), who became a household name when he defended O.J. His daughter Tiffany, for one, no longer holds a cell phone to her head. We invited the wireless industry's trade organization, CTIA, the wireless association, to take part in tonight's discussion. Do you see, Dale, as a lay person, the possibility of cell phone use and Johnnie's illness? Simpson was found not guilty of murder. 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. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. That's ahead on LARRY KING LIVE. D. COCHRAN: Well, I think it's an enigma. And when you are actually using the phone, it should be kept at least 15 millimeters up to an inch away from your ear. Brad has a phone in his pocket of his pants. 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. KING: Louis, would it be a simple solution, everyone should use an ear phone? Johnnie Cochran turned out to be right, famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz, a member of the Simpson defense team, said in 2005. I do not hold it to my ear. ", In "Lethal Weapon 4," comedian Chris Rock plays a policeman who advises a criminal suspect he has a right to an attorney, then warns him: "If you get Johnnie Cochran, I'll kill you. 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. Doctor Khurana, you say that the danger of cell phones could have far broader health ramifications than asbestos and smoking. 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? We know that brain tumors are the number one cancer killer among children in the United States and the second most common form of cancer in kids. And finally, not wearing one of these non- ionizing Bluetooth things all the time. It's heating the brain. Flamboyant in public, he kept his private life shrouded in secrecy, and when some of those secrets became public following a 1978 divorce, they were startling. A judge reportedly issued the warrant on Thursday, KING: What were his last days like? And I think it's a great idea if you are worried about it. The precautionary principle is a fancy version of the old (unproven) adage "better safe than sorry.". This is animation of the brain, sort of looking at it from the behind, as you can see there. 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