‘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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Al Capone and the romantic holiday that triggered his demise
Ninety years ago this week, one of the most horrifying acts of violence in organized crime history occurred inside a…
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Drama-drenched El Chapo trial nears its end
Mob News & Notes is a new monthly feature in the Mob Museum’s blog. It highlights recent stories on American…
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Twenty years later, The Sopranos remembered fondly
Twenty years ago, The Sopranos television crime series began airing on HBO, featuring a fictional New Jersey Mafia boss and his family,…
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Forensic scientists examine Mob Museum artifacts for evidence of criminal past
Forensic science, including DNA analysis and other fields related to examining blood found at a crime scene, is a powerful…
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The rise of Castro and the fall of the Havana Mob
When Fidel Castro, his brother Raul, Che Guevara and 79 other Cuban rebels piled into the 43-foot yacht Granma on…
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The Kansas City connection
In the 1995 movie Casino, the Mob’s control of skimming at Las Vegas casinos is exposed when authorities learn about…
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Hoodlums at the Statler
In the early morning hours of December 5, 1928, patrol officer Frank Osowski was walking his beat in downtown Cleveland…
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