‘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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Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles: No. 2 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen
In this second installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, we move from the Chicago…
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‘Machine Gun’ Jack McGurn leads list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen
Faced with more than 200 unsolved gangland murders in the Brooklyn area since the early 1930s, in 1940 the District…
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Two popular TV series will highlight Midwest mobsters this spring
The Kansas City Mob is being featured in two popular crime series that will be kicking off new seasons this…
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Last call before the Dry Decade
At 12:01 a.m. on January 17, 1920, “last call” parties wrapped up across the nation, as the United States officially…
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The violent saga of ‘Sally Bugs’
During a rainy Tuesday night in New York City’s Little Italy, two assassins in jackets approached their target from behind,…
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Dueling views of who killed Jimmy Hoffa
Three veteran journalists participating in a panel discussion at The Mob Museum on the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa challenged the…
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‘Mob Town’ movie spotlights notorious Mafia summit
One of the major events in organized crime history, the 1957 Apalachin summit, a gathering of Mafia leaders at a…
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