Posts Tagged ‘ Historical ’

Interesting five part video series produced by National Geographic “Inside the Mafia. Mafia, What Mafia?” Interviews with Joe Bonanno’s son Bill and Henry Hill, detailing how the mafia came to be involved in the drug trade and the federal governments’ refusal to admit the existence of the mafia. // Share|
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The Las Vegas Mob Experience,a museum to be hosted in the Tropicana Casino on the Las Vegas strip which involves Antoinette McConnell, the daughter of Chicago Mob boss Sam Giancana, is slated to be opened by years end. Its’ competition, a second Las Vegas mob museum chronicling the wiseguys in that city , the...
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  The Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement will open its doors in mid 2011. Dennis Barrie, the creative director of the museum said "This is one of the most anticipated museum projects in the world. It is really a topic that evokes true interest with the American public, with museum...
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Frank Lucas spoke Saturday at the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day convention in suburban Chicago and said the key to reforming his life was education. The session was called "Redefining the American Gangster." His career was dramatized in the 2007 feature film American Gangster. Lucas's character is portrayed by Denzel Washington. Photo by...
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80 St. Mark's Place, a building in the heart of the East Village, held an old speakeasy during Prohibition owned by gangster Walter Scheib. Now it will house the new Museum of the American Gangster. "People would come down the subway stairs into the front business, which I think was a butcher shop, go...
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Interesting video on the history of the FBI Top Ten Most Wanted List // Share|
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The highly anticipated series "Boardwalk Empire" is inspired by the real-life reign of the flamboyant and fabulously corrupt political boss Enoch "Nucky" Johnson. Where the contemporary Tony Soprano operated in a clandestine underworld, this '20s-era Atlantic City political boss brashly and shrewdly used his influence to run a government that worked openly to line...
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The "1930 Ford Model A used by bank robber John Dillinger to evade federal agents sold at auction Saturday for $165,000. This car was used in Dillinger's 1934 escape from the Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wis. Dillinger and his gang had been staying at the lakeside resort when the proprietor tipped off...
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Here's a short video by National Geographic on the Canadian mobster Franco and Paolo's Violi's murders. The video shows the dynamics of the murders which was allegedly carried out by Nick Rizutto as he was consolidating his power in Canada.   // Share|
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One of the five New York families was headed up by Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno in th 1930's, formed from part of the Maranzano Family. Bonanno was at the time the youngest of the bosses of the Five Families at 26 years old. He directed the family into the popular organized crime dealings, involving...
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