‘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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Don’t dare call him ‘Three Finger Brown’
The 1960s marked the end of an era for some of America’s underworld leaders. The forward-thinking, Prohibition-era architects of New…
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Ten years ago, epic ‘Family Secrets’ trial crippled the Chicago Outfit
The historic “Family Secrets” trial began 10 years ago in Chicago, finally bringing to justice several top Midwestern mobsters responsible…
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Seventy years ago today, Bugsy Siegel’s storied Mob life came to an abrupt end
It is important to our Museum and to me as the resident historian that criminals and their criminal acts are…
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New York indictments allege Georgian mafia activities in four U.S. states
The country of Georgia, wedged between Russia and Turkey with the Black Sea forming its western border, gained its independence…
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The hit that could have sunk Las Vegas
On May 2, 1957, Frank Costello thought he had problems, but he had no idea. He was appealing a five-year…
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Organized crime runs rampant in Latin America
In the United States, organized crime groups steal about $66 billion from retail, cargo, auto and jewelry businesses each year….
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Archbishop: No more Mafia godfathers
The climactic montage from The Godfather begins with a baby’s cries. A priest recites the ritual Latin phrases over a…
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