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Opinion: History says the Supper Club fire was no accident


Opinion: History says the Supper Club fire was no accident
Peter Bronson
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Ivory-clean Cincinnati has a dirty secret buried in the dim, forgotten past. Long ago, a Faustian bargain was made that was good for the convention business: The northern banks of the Ohio would stay clean – but south of the river, anything goes.
Newport, Kentucky became an underworld kingdom, the outlaw grandfather of Las Vegas. It was “Sin  City,” “Little Mexico” and “America’s most wicked city,” according to Esquire magazine in 1957.
Two decades later it was on the national map again when 165 people were killed in the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire – 44 years ago this weekend. ....

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