Bandits Rob Mail Train in Britain
Aug. 8, 1963 - A gang of masked bandits ambushed a mail train in Jesse James style today and pulled off the world’s greatest train...
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Aug 6, 2023
$100,000 Bounty on Valachi's Head
Aug. 6, 1963 - The underworld has set a $100,000 bounty on the head of Joseph Valachi. The reason: he talked. “If we let Valachi out on...
Aug 4, 2023
Underworld Figure Providing Feds with Critical Information on “Cosa Nostra”
Aug. 4, 1963 - Somewhere in a secret hideout today, FBI agents are guarding an underworld figure who has given the Justice Department the...
Jul 18, 2023
U.S. Crime Rate Soars
July 18, 1963 - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said today the crime rate in this country is outstripping the population growth by almost...
Jul 16, 2023
Federal Judge to FBI: Stop Harassing Giancana
July 16, 1963 - A federal judge today ordered the FBI to scale back its intensive shadowing of Sam Giancana (pictured in 1959), Chicago’s...
Jul 12, 2023
“Tony Pro” Sentenced to 7 Years in Jail
July 12, 1963 - New Jersey Teamsters’ Union boss Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano (pictured), 46, was sentenced to 7 years in jail and fined...
Jul 6, 2023
Berserk N.J. Factory Worker Surrenders
July 6, 1963 - A 36-year-old fugitive surrendered without a struggle in Newark early today, 10 hours after he had killed 2 persons,...
Jul 5, 2023
New Jersey Factory Worker Goes Berserk
July 5, 1963 - A 36-year-old factory worker shot and killed his wife and sister-in-law today in Linden, N.J., and after wounding 3 other...
Jun 20, 2023
Astronaut Impersonator Behind Bars
June 20, 1963 - There was a packed audience in a Houston nightclub June 13 when entertainer Milton Berle introduced a crew-cut young man...
Jun 19, 2023
Condemned Murderers Latham and York Granted Stay of Execution
June 19, 1963 - Two condemned killers, James Douglas Latham and George Ronald York (pictured in 1961), were granted a last-minute stay of...
Jun 19, 2023
Army Private from Brooklyn Killed in Racial Clash
June 19, 1963 - The South Brooklyn neighborhood near 13th St. was stunned today to learn that one of the most popular boys on the block,...
Jun 11, 2023
Tony Pro Convicted of Extortion in Newark
June 11, 1963 - Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano (pictured), 46, hulking president of Teamsters Union Local 560 and friend of Teamsters czar...
Jun 4, 2023
Hoffa Indicted in Chicago
June 4, 1963 - A Federal grand jury in Chicago indicted James R. Hoffa and seven other persons today on charges of having fraudulently...
May 29, 2023
Tony Pro on Murdered Shop Steward: “He Was Accident-Prone”
May 29, 1963 - Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano (pictured), 45, president of the Teamsters Union’s 13,000-member Local 560, expressed grief...
May 28, 2023
French Nightclub Owner Guilty in NYC Heroin Case
May 28, 1963 - Francois Paul Scaglia (pictured right with an NYC police detective after his 1962 arrest), a 35-year-old French nightclub...
May 27, 2023
Gov. Hughes Orders All-Out Probe of Union Murder
May 27, 1963 - An all-out investigation by the New Jersey state police into the cold-blooded Hoboken murder of maverick Teamsters shop...
May 26, 2023
Nazi-Minded Tough Guy Has Day in Court
May 26, 1963 - An arrogant, Nazi-minded tough guy, arrested for roughing up a detective during a melee at a Yorkville hate rally...
May 25, 2023
Tony Pro Kin Held in Hoboken Murder
May 25, 1963 - A relative by marriage to the Provenzano clan was held today as a material witness in the slaying of Walter Glockner, 27,...
May 24, 2023
Tony Pro Foe Murdered in N.J.
May 24, 1963 - A young Teamsters’ Union shop steward who opposed the president of his local, Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, was fatally...
May 22, 2023
French TV Star Admits Heroin Conspiracy
May 22, 1963 - Jacques D. Angelvin (right), a Parisian television performer, admitted in New York State Supreme Court today that he had...
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