‘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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Friday, Dec. 7-Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas
David G. Schwartz, author of Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas, will present an Author’s Talk and book signing…
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Monday, Dec. 2-Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas
Author’s Talk to feature nationally known, local gaming expert David G. Schwartz, director of the Center for Gaming Research at the…
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Friday, Oct. 11, 2013: Boston’s Other Mob Trial
Scott M. Deitche is the author of five books on organized crime including Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of…
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Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow December
Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow, authors of The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums and Hideouts, are now contributing a weekly…
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Did the Chicago Mob send Jack Ruby to Dallas?
Gerald Posner, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, will defend the…
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Conventional wisdom holds that alleged assassins, Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan, were “nobodies” who wanted to be “somebodies.”-Oct. 12th
Patrick Nolan, author of CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys, will be one of the panelists presenting at…
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Jack Ruby and telephone calls to Mobsters: Evidence of a JFK conspiracy?
Jack Ruby’s long-distance telephone activity jumped significantly during the months before JFK was assassinated. Some people cite it as evidence…
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