‘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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Re-edited ‘Godfather: Part III’ wins applause
Francis Ford Coppola’s re-edit of The Godfather: Part III is receiving praise from critics who say the changes have streamlined…
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Blowing the whistle on Mob-connected sports betting
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The Kefauver hearing in Las Vegas
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‘The Godfather: Part III’ is getting a makeover
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Did the Chicago Outfit elect John F. Kennedy president?
A number of authors assert, based on claims by individuals who were linked in one way or another to organized…
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Federal law enforcement agencies announce series of major busts
While most of us are focused on the pandemic and the final weeks of the presidential campaign, federal law enforcement…
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Decades of temperance activism led to passage of Prohibition 100 years ago
All the tumult of 2020 makes it easy to forget that it is a huge anniversary in the history of…
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