Dallas gambler hits jackpot in Las Vegas

Benny Binion pleaded guilty to income tax evasion on Sep. 6, 1952, eight days before he was due to stand trial in his native state. The Texas gambler and Las Vegas casino owner spent three and a half years in Leavenworth, where at last he learned to read. “I never went to school not even grade school because I was sick a lot as a kid,” explained Binion, who was born in 1904 in the North Texas…