I think everybody on this program has agreed that using a headset is really the right way to go. What is that? Contributors control their own work and posted freely to our site. He's chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai. According to TMZ, the Florida rapper currently has a warrant out for his arrest. Thanks, Louis Slesin, for being with us. WebOur environmental policy should embrace free market principles with regulatory structures and incentives that allow businesses to innovate and prosper. Third, we know that the studies that have been done on brain cancer, and I'm going to distinguish brain cancer from acoustic neuroma, have largely been reassuring. God bless you. So we know that there is KING: You can't discuss an individual case then? Non-ionizing is less problematic, I think, than ionizing. Also, some of the studies say regular cell phone use is using it one time a week for six months. You know, they didn't give off enough non- ionizing radio frequency to be a problem. For young kids out there, it's a great career. Meanwhile, wear an earpiece, or holster and all will be well, the doctors said. Dale Cochran will be joining us later on. "I read everything I could find about Thurgood Marshall and confirmed that a single dedicated man could use the law to change society.". 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. I think that there are always surprises when you have a new technology and you have hundreds of millions of people using them. 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. Each study may have some flaw to the study. It's a form of energy. 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. And finally, not wearing one of these non- ionizing Bluetooth things all the time. A judge reportedly issued the warrant on Thursday, 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. KING: Dr. Khurana, by the way, do you use a cell phone? Not probably, he was one of the best known attorneys. KHURANA: I do, Larry. But we don't have all the answers. We'll wrap it up when we come back. His first wife, Barbara Cochran Berry, wrote her own memoir Life After Johnnie Cochran: Why I Left the Sweetest Talking, Most Successful Black Lawyer in L.A. accusing her ex-husband of cruel behaviors that included physical and emotional abuse. And I think I should quote them. LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Johnnie Cochran Jr.'s former mistress filed a palimony lawsuit against O.J. This is a scan that somebody would get in the doctor's office. Before doing that, I do agree with you. Wir freuen uns, Ihnen das brandneue Lego 41027 einfhren zu drfen! In 2004, Cochrans associates revealed that he was suffering from an undisclosed illness. KING: How do children's phones, Dr. Black, differ from -- children's brains, rather, differ from adults? Every morning when I get up, when I look at all the choices of things I could be, I love being a lawyer. KING: Is that memory loss a major cause of concern, Dr. Black? His work and leadership have had a lasting legacy almost two decades after his death, and in today's America, with the death of George Floyd and the nationwide For more health information and action on health policy, sign on at: www.health-journalist.com. Or check out our newest web feature, about last night. And this was a phone that was probably one of the most popular at that time. More studies are needed. If we have that, I'll show you that. It seems, Dale, that if they don't have any proof, people are at least concerned. ``I don't know why he turned against me, why he cut me off, why he would want to see me hurt,'' a tearful What do you make of it? And I think it's a great idea if you are worried about it. This is professor Bruce Armstrong, professor and head of the University of Sydney's public health -- school of public health. And so we have a situation with a widely used technology in which we don't have very, very long-term follow-up, and we don't have very long-term follow-up of kids. 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). ob. Larry, we're going to go inside the ear here to the inner part over here. This big white mass, that is what's an acoustic neuroma -- a tumor of the specific nerve in that inner ear area. ET) at his home in Los Angeles. 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: Like Ted Kennedy had? Do you think we'll have a statistical rate to link these two? These docs commented on the "Interphone study" in which thirty-five researchers from all over the world sought to correlate cell phone use with brain cancer incidence. I think arrogance is the worst way to go. It went down as phones got more advanced. He was in New York at the time and had been admitted to a hospital in New York. For example, in Australia, there are 22 million cell phones and 21 million people. They certainly cause car accidents. Don't go away. We have a little montage here for you. Crime Suspenstories (1992 Russ Cochran/Gemstone) comic books 1953 or later Go to CNN.com/larryking and tell us. The food -- by the way, we'll show you a screen effect here. KING: Dr. Gupta, what do you make of what Dr. Khurana just said? Until the research has been done, it would be presumptuous to make a judgment call. KING: You are watching LARRY KING LIVE. Yet more controversy followed the lawyer when items from his personal life were publicly revealed. Cochran is survived by his second wife, Dale Mason; his son, Jonathan Cochran, from a prior relationship; his daughters Tiffany Cochran Edwards and Melodie Cochran, from his first marriage; and sisters Pearl Baker and Martha Jean Sherrard. KING: But later you did use surgery, right? And I would under -- I would hope that most people are aware of what that is. The control group uses cell phones. Peter Leeds appears as Mr. Garland. Robert Bray appears as Major Cunningham. Following his surgery in April 2004, Cochran began to avoid the limelight after having welcomed it for so many years. Not from the U.S.? His first marriage, to his college sweetheart, Barbara Berry, produced two daughters, Melodie and Tiffany. After graduating from UCLA, Cochran earned a law degree from Loyola University. And, two, how far along has the industry evolved? For a time, he represented high-profile athletes and music stars in contract matters. I am proud to have called him my friend.". 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. While your there, download our latest podcast, Jesse Ventura. 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. 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. D. COCHRAN: Well, I think it's an enigma. I would like to point you to the long-term data that's coming out of the Interphone studies. Cochran had accused a group of Los Angeles police officers, led by Mark Fuhrman, of framing his client. And, so, you are sort of asking for a definite answer to state where the science is quite indefinite. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. I started researching it and really understanding it. His daughter Tiffany, for one, no longer holds a cell phone to her head. What indication did he give you that something was wrong? He asked his secretary to call me and get me on the phone because he couldn't remember the phone number to the house. KING: Dr. Khurana, how would you respond? .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. Studies from northern Europe, from Israel especially, from France, from Germany, all point to a risk of, you know, cell phone links to brain tumors and to neuromas and grand tumors. D. COCHRAN: Cedars-Sinai Johnny Cochran Brain Tumor Center. As prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden sparred with Simpson's defense attorney, the late Johnnie Cochran, Kim desperately hoped for a conviction. You remember early cell phones. He was just wonderful. Often times, these phone come with a holster. 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. @@*@@* FILE @@*@@*Attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. holds onto O.J. So that's half of our world population, or almost half. Doctor Khurana, you say that the danger of cell phones could have far broader health ramifications than asbestos and smoking. And I use an earpiece. But there is a concern out there and I think people need to be careful. Johnnie Cochran is saying the only reason youre on this case is because youre black. I recoiled. DR. VINI KHURANA, NEUROSURGEON, THE CANBERRA HOSPITAL: I base it on the fact, Larry, that at this point in time, there's just over three billion users of cell phones worldwide. GUPTA: Yes, I do. KING: You had to like Johnnie Cochran. ", "Johnnie Cochran was a true gentleman who embodied class, brilliance, honesty and integrity," Jackson said in a statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. 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. 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. Male. Do you think there's a link? "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. KING: Dr. Black will be returning. You know, one of the most common presenting symptoms in an adult is new onset seizure, as well as headaches. The weight of the evidence is negative. Firemen have an occupational risk of brain cancer because of diesel exposure. Health, food and environmental journalist; radio host, Progressive Radio Network. It's carried in the approved holster. By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. He spent two years in the Los Angeles city attorney's office before establishing his own practice. KING: Is the Johnny Cochran Brain Tumor Center -- we were there at its opening. Again, they don't recommend that based on the industry's recommendation. One of the bigger concerns, though, I think, is the fact that it just generates a lot of heat or it generates heat. While Cochran never argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, a case involving him is on the docket this session. 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? If it doesn't fit, you must acquit. But, you know, I've read all these studies, Larry. He specifies glioma, a primary brain tumor, cancer, acoustic neuroma and prodded gland tumors. It gives me an opportunity to represent people who I believe are innocent. Time now for Anderson Cooper and "A.C. 360" -- Anderson. GUPTA: There are a lot of don'ts. We had actually vacationed together on summer vacations with our mutual families. KHURANA: I strongly disagree with Dr. Thun's perspective. KING: They come with the phone. It remains an enigma. Select the best result to Is that really safe? This is Dale's first interview since then. KING: Is that something that you would possibly associate with cell phones? BLACK: Larry, typically no. Johnnie Lee Cochran Jr., J.D., B.A. ( /kkrn/; October 2, 1937 March 29, 2005) was a high-profile lawyer and civil activist best known for his leadership role in the defense and criminal acquittal of O.J. Simpson for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. And it was unrelated to the subsequent tumor that he developed. And I think particularly among young people who are logging, you know, thousands of hours KING: Teenagers? We don't know about mechanisms. KING: What was the treatment? KING: Let's watch. 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 was the mid'80s. GUPTA: It's interesting. D. COCHRAN: Yes. KING: Dale, did you know he was terminal? He was 67. D. COCHRAN: I got concerned right away that he couldn't remember my telephone number. He's director of brain tumor surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital. KING: We all liked Johnnie. It gives you an opportunity to do interesting things. Rather than a tumor, he called his ailment a neurological condition requiring a procedure. KING: What do you read, Dr. Gupta. I guess that doesn't count. KING: Did Johnnie know he was passing? Gender. I do think that he raises a very important concern, I think particularly among young people using cell phones. Dale Cochran's First Interview Since the Death of Her Husband Johnnie; Is There a Link Between Cell Phones and Cancer? THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. Speaking of last night, our "American Idol" contest winners, Laura from Morgantown, West Virginia, she knew the complete set list. Simpson, reached at his home in Florida, also praised Cochran on Tuesday, saying "I don't think I'd be home today without Johnnie. KING: So do Dale and Dr. Black think there's a link between cell phones and Johnnie Cochran's brain tumor? KING: Louis, would it be a simple solution, everyone should use an ear phone? I would not want to be a heavy user of a mobile phone. Cochran, is perhaps best known for representing former football star Simpson during his trial on 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. WebJohnnie Cochran's widow speaks publicly for the first time since her husband's death. ", "It was fun. BLACK: and anyone who will listen that the safe practice is to use an earpiece. Cochran, who was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in December 2003, died Tuesday at his home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles. 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. KING: But if it is a cause and can be helped by using ear phones why not? So that -- you know, that option wasn't one of the weapons that we could use to fight the tumor. In an interview with the New York Post last September, he said, "I'm feeling pretty good" and described himself as "90 percent" improved. When that relationship soured, his mistress, Patricia Sikora, sued him for palimony and the case was settled privately in 2004. KING: There are a lot of don'ts. 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 don't know what you think about this whole subject. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOHNNIE COCHRAN, ATTORNEY: If it doesn't fit, you must acquit. They saw an abnormality within the brain. Lacola (ph) from Finland, Interphone group, "for more than 10 years, of mobile phone use reported on the side of the head where the tumor was located, an increased odds ratio of borderline statistical significance was found." KING: He's still living? Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. 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. The environment is important, but ultimately, government mandates cannot protect our In case you missed that hour long broadcast, I'll provide a summary: "Yes, cell phones do cause brain cancer.". This is a Motorola phone. 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 jury is still out. Yes. Attorney at law. D. 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