‘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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The good and evil of Meyer Lansky
Eytan Rockaway is intrigued by complex gangsters. The film director’s new movie, released last week, explores an underworld figure he…
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Dennis Griffin, true crime author who chronicled the Mob in Las Vegas and elsewhere, dies
If there was a hall of fame for true crime authors, Dennis Griffin would be in it. He was a…
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Wife of drug kingpin El Chapo pleads guilty to drug trafficking
Standing in a federal court dressed in a green prison jumpsuit and white face mask, the wife of imprisoned Mexican…
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Eighty-five years ago this week, Lucky Luciano convicted of pandering
A few years after the fall of Chicago’s Al Capone in 1931, a new recognizable face of organized crime emerged…
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Historians of the underworld
When media outlets need an expert to explain what might have happened to former labor leader Jimmy Hoffa’s remains, they…
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Former New York Mafioso shines light on syndicate ‘treachery’
When he was 20 years old, John Pennisi shot a man to death in a dispute over a girlfriend. “The…
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The 10-week-long Commission trial played to full courtrooms
Last of two parts. The Commission trial continued through November and into December of 1986. The eight men on trial…
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