‘November 1963’ puts Chicago Outfit at center of JFK assassination
A new feature film about the Kennedy assassination puts the Chicago Outfit at the center of a plot to kill the nation’s 35th president. Directed by Roland Joffé, November 1963 stars John Travolta as mobster Johnny Rosselli, Jefferson White as accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, and Mandy Patinkin as Outfit boss Tony Accardo. It also features Robert Carlyle as Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner with suspected Mob ties who fatally shot Oswald on live TV two days after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The movie, filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is set to debut in theaters on December 4. The official details of ...
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New John Gotti movie in the works
When Paul Castellano and a top aide were ambushed outside a New York City restaurant on December 16, 1985, a…
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As the 75th anniversary of the Flamingo Hotel approaches, The Mob Museum is set to unveil a new exhibit
Ask many Las Vegas newcomers and visitors to identify the city’s origins, and they will say a mobster named Bugsy…
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Allen Glick, 1970s owner of Las Vegas casinos skimmed by Mob, has died
Allen R. Glick, a decorated Vietnam War veteran and California developer who insisted he knew nothing about skimming by Midwestern…
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The story of Al Capone and Eliot Ness is headed for Showtime
The shooting death of seven gangsters in Chicago on February 14, 1929, was “the most cold-blooded massacre in the history…
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The Jimmy Hoffa disappearance: The 46th anniversary
Editor’s note: Since July 30, 1975, the law enforcement community on the federal, state and local levels, along with an…
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Recently released FBI documents tie Whitey Bulger to horse race-fixing scheme
The recent release of FBI documents about the late mobster James “Whitey” Bulger does more than shed light on a…
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Hoffa’s missing body leads list of top 5 Mob mysteries
Organized crime, by its nature, is a secretive activity, with the threat of violence often reserved for those who might…
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