Hollywood’s ‘Bugsy’ is entertaining but plays fast and loose with the facts
In the 1991 movie Bugsy, Warren Beatty, portraying mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, stands in the desert near Highway 91 south…
In the 1991 movie Bugsy, Warren Beatty, portraying mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, stands in the desert near Highway 91 south…
Of the many Mob movies and television shows now in the works, several are focused on underworld figures who had…
In the final days before the 1968 presidential election, the so-called “war on crime” was the top domestic issue of…
When Fidel Castro, his brother Raul, Che Guevara and 79 other Cuban rebels piled into the 43-foot yacht Granma on…
The 1960s marked the end of an era for some of America’s underworld leaders. The forward-thinking, Prohibition-era architects of New…
It is important to our Museum and to me as the resident historian that criminals and their criminal acts are…
Las Vegas was in the middle of a slump. It was April 1957, and the town was still coming to…
Written February 2017 In 1946, Charles “Lucky” Luciano was persona non grata in America. Though he was granted a pardon…
The venerable actress and singer Debbie Reynolds, who died last week at age 84, was a risk-taker for decades when…
This is the second of three blogs on the death of Fidel Castro. Part one looks at the harsh blow…