‘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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Interview with journalist Andrew Jennings, who exposed FIFA scandal, is first entry in online video archive
When The Mob Museum considered who to interview for a planned video production on the bribery scandal embroiling top executives…
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Informant’s testimony about 1978 Lufthansa heist sheds new light on key element of “Goodfellas” movie
Henry Hill, the late Mob associate turned government witness, claimed in his book The Lufthansa Heist, co-authored by Daniel Simone…
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I vote ‘Aye’
There may never have been a better time to live in Las Vegas than in the early to mid-1990s. The…
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“Legend” is latest film portrayal of the Kray twins
The Kray twins, the volatile ex-boxers who went from extortion racketeers in 1950s London to nightclub-owning celebrity gangsters in the…
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Mob classic “Goodfellas” debuted in theaters twenty-five years ago
Monday marks a quarter-century since Goodfellas was released in American theaters. It was the highest-grossing movie of the September 21-23,…
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“Black Mass” film, Johnny Depp makeup artistry bring Whitey Bulger to life on screen
Black Mass, the cinematic saga of convicted Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger, who gamed a crooked FBI to obtain…
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Former New York Mob enforcer to Gotti Junior
John Alite was a small-time drug dealer when, in 1983, he started doing business with John A. Gotti, son of…
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