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‘November 1963’ puts Chicago Outfit at center of JFK assassination

The film November 1963 dramatizes the theory that the Chicago Outfit played a role in both John F. Kennedy’s election as president and his assassination. In the film, John Travolta, left, plays mobster Johnny Rosselli and Dylan McDermott plays hitman Charles “Chuckie the Typewriter” Nicoletti. Entertainment Pictures / Alamy Stock Photo
October 29, 2026

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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