‘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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Culling out the card sharks
Gambling was always a backdrop in the nascent years of Las Vegas, a popular if illicit activity for railroad workers,…
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‘White Boy Rick’ seeks new life after more than 30 years behind bars
The gates couldn’t swing open soon enough. Former Detroit teenage drug boss and illegal underage FBI mole Richard “White Boy…
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Zeroing in on Jimmy Hoffa’s unmarked grave
Editor’s note: On July 8, The Mob Museum published an essay by investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea — author of…
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Fake products are huge business for European organized crime
For organized crime groups, the business of counterfeiting and pirating legitimate products is booming. Europol, Europe’s top law enforcement agency,…
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Finding Jimmy Hoffa
Editor’s note: After investigating the Jimmy Hoffa murder case since Hoffa’s disappearance forty-five years ago this month, investigative journalist Dan…
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Multiple podcast series put ‘Sopranos’ stars back in limelight
Sitting around in pajama pants, Robert Iler and Jamie-Lynn Sigler, friends who starred together on The Sopranos, decided to start…
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Mob Museum debuts ‘Rise of the Cartels’ exhibition
Pablo Escobar, the ruthless Colombian drug kingpin and world’s first billionaire criminal, pioneered mass-market drug trafficking, fueled by bribery and…
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