Some Italian-Americans Resent Spotlight on Valachi
Oct. 3, 1963 - Italian-Americans in New York expressed resentment today over the national spotlight that is being given the story of...
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- 2 days ago
Valachi Continues to Sing
Oct. 2, 1963 - The Cosa Nostra stopped accepting new members in 1958, Joseph Valachi (pictured right today speaking to counsel) told...
- 3 days ago
Cosa Nostra Songbird Valachi Exposes Mob Secrets
Oct. 1, 1963 - Joseph Valachi calmly recited today the bloody history of a war for control of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. From this...
- Sep 13
Paris T.V. Figures Gets U.S. Prison Term for Heroin Smuggling
Sept. 13, 1963 - A Paris television figure was sentenced in Brooklyn today to 3 to 6 years in prison for smuggling into this country 24...
- Sep 12
Two Ex-Convicts Sentenced to Death in Los Angeles
Sept. 12, 1963 - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury of nine men and three women voted the death penalty today for the two ex-convicts...
- Sep 11
Nevada Gaming Commission Hits Sinatra-Giancana Connection
Sept. 11, 1963 - The Nevada Gaming Control Board issued a complaint today against Frank Sinatra (picured with his son, Frank Jr.),...
- Sep 4
Two Ex-Convicts Found Guilty of Murdering L.A. Policeman
Sept. 4, 1963 - Two ex-convicts accused of killing a Los Angeles policeman in a remote Kern County onion field were found guilty of...
- Aug 31
Sinatra’s Vegas Club Under Investigation for Mob Ties
Aug. 31, 1963 - Frank Sinatra’s Cal-Neva Lodge on the north shore of Lake Tahoe is threatened with closure pending investigation of...
- Aug 31
Caution on Upper East Side after Slayings
Aug. 31, 1963 - On Manhattan’s East Side today, doors were opened more cautiously, locks were added, doormen seemed more alert, and some...
- Aug 30
NYPD: No Leads in Career Girl Slayings
Aug. 30, 1963 - New York Chief of Detectives Lawrence McKearney admitted today the police had no leads to the identity of the knife...
- Aug 28
Two Young Career Girls Viciously Murdered in Manhattan
Aug. 28, 1963 - Two young women, one the daughter of a writer and the other of a prominent surgeon, were found stabbed to death today in...
- Aug 24
Man Incarcerated in 1899 Still Behind Bars
Aug. 24, 1963 - Richard Honeck, 84 years old, has been in prison longer than many men expect to live. Honeck (left in 1899 and right this...
- Aug 19
Thomas (Three-Finger Brown) Lucchese Visits Nassau D.A.
Aug. 19, 1963 - Thomas (Three-Finger Brown) Lucchese (pictured appearing before the Senate Labor Rackets committee in 1958), reportedly...
- Aug 16
Execution at Sing Sing
Aug. 16, 1963 - Eddie Lee Mays, 34, was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing last night for the 1961 Harlem holdup murder of a bar...
- Aug 14
Retired NYPD Detective Chief: Gallos Losing War with Profaci Gang
Aug. 14, 1963 - Raymond V. Martin, retired chief of detectives in Brooklyn South, the heart of that borough’s Cosa Nostra crime...
- Aug 13
Valachi Closely Guarded in New Jersey
Aug. 13, 1963 - The United States Army is guarding Mafia canary Joe Valachi behind barbed wire at Fort Monmouth, N.J. The mobster who...
- Aug 9
Gallo-Profaci War Continues in Brooklyn
Aug. 9, 1963 - The five-year underworld war between the Gallo and Profaci gangs of Brooklyn reached a new peak of violence today with the...
- Aug 6
$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
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
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...
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