‘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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‘Goodfellas’ still going strong after 30 years
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Capone, Torrio and the Sunshine City, St. Petersburg, Florida
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Frank Cullotta, Chicago Outfit associate who led the Hole in the Wall Gang burglary ring in Las Vegas, has died
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Mobsters in the military
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Netflix’s ‘Fear City’ reveals how FBI, prosecutors built the Mafia Commission case
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Following the facts to possible Hoffa hit house
In the fall of 2019, as a mentor of mine out East closed in on where Jimmy Hoffa’s body is…
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