Unwarranted
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On the morning of May 20th in 1957, a man named Don King was alone at home. Don King wasn't famous yet as a boxing promoter, but in Cleveland, he was known as the number czar.
Don King was about 25, so fairly young. He was starting to also become very active in the boxing community.
This is Professor Carolyn Long. When Don King was 10, his father was killed in an accident at his job at a steel factory. Don King and his brother started running an illegal lottery known as The Numbers. They would sell peanuts to the gambling houses in town. Each bag of nuts contained a square paper with lottery numbers on it. They would shout, get your hot roasted peanuts and your lucky number. By the time he was 25, he was well known for running illegal gambling in Cleveland. At one point, he was making $15,000 a day from his gambling operation.
The people who were involved were primarily from the African-American community, and they were very much targeted by law enforcement because of the assumption that it was connected to organized crime, which is why the vice squad always went after them.
In Cleveland, vice crimes were handled by a unit called the Special Bureau of Investigation. One officer there was Sergeant Carl DeLau. He'd arrested Don King for illegal gambling in 1954. But afterwards, Don King and Carl DeLau became friendly, and sometimes Don King told Carl about rival gambling operations, and that he had to pay money to local gangsters for protection. And then, on the morning of May 20th, 1957, a bomb exploded under Don King's front porch.
It was not a big bomb, but it was enough to scare someone. So it destroyed part of King's porch. It was obviously intentionally set. And he believed that people who were involved in gambling had set the bomb as a warning to him. And he immediately called Carl DeLau and this Bureau of Special Investigations because he was concerned about his own safety.
A few days later, Carl DeLau got an anonymous tip about the bomb. The tip said that a man named Virgil Ogletree, another numbers game operator, knew something about it, and that he was hiding at a house nearby. It belonged to someone Don King knew, a woman named Dahlry Mapp. Dahlry Mapp was born on October 30, 1923. She grew up in a small town in Mississippi.
What events led to the bombing under Don King's porch?
Carolyn says that Dahlry told her that she was strong-willed as a child. She told her parents that, quote, she wanted to live her life her own way. When she was 10, they let her move in with her aunt in Cleveland. When she was 15, she got pregnant and had a daughter. She stayed in Cleveland and later dropped out of school. When Dahlry was 21, she got engaged to a boxer named Jimmy Bivens. Dahlry said it was an abusive relationship. She told Carolyn, I had to leave him or kill him, and I wasn't ready to kill him. But she didn't want to say much else.
She said, you know, I'm not going to talk about that. I don't need to talk about that. He's a non-entity. He's irrelevant to my life.
Dahlry later dated another boxer, Archie Moore. They got engaged when she was 31, but broke up about a year later.
So she was really well known in the community because not only of these relationships, but because of who she was. She was socializing with people and her name was well known in the area. Well, at the time, she was strikingly attractive. She was in her early 30s. She was very slender, high cheekbones, and an incredible fierce gaze that just captured you. You could tell how confident she was as a young woman and also how defiant she was.
Dolly Mapp was stopped often by the police on suspicion of being involved in illegal gambling.
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