‘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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The life and death of Joe Colombo
Three rounds from an assassin’s gun all but silenced Joseph Colombo, one of the Mafia’s most publicly vocal bosses. Although…
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Joe Friday tackled the Los Angeles crime syndicate
William H. Parker, a hardnosed police chief in midcentury Los Angeles, did not want organized crime in his city. In…
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ROBERT F. KENNEDY’S CRUSADE AGAINST THE MOB: PART 3
LAST OF THREE PARTS In the days following his brother Jack’s election to the presidency in November 1960, Robert F….
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Robert F. Kennedy’s crusade against the Mob: Part 2
Second of three parts The Senate Rackets Committee made national news as soon as it started its work in early…
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Robert F. Kennedy’s crusade against the Mob: Part 1
First of Three Parts In a lengthy memo to his brother President John F. Kennedy, dated January 10, 1963, meant…
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The Gangsters at the Heart of Russia’s Story
Russian gangsters are often fascinated by the Cosa Nostra, and one once asked me, can one write the history of…
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Who killed Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel?
To this day no one knows who killed Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. The shooting in Southern California happened on June, 20,…
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