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Dec 11, 2023

🚨Frank Sinatra Jr. Released Unharmed

Dec. 11, 1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr., kidnapped Sunday night at a Lake Tahoe gambling casino, was released unharmed about 3 a.m. today after...

Dec 10, 2023

Break May Be Near in Sinatra Kidnapping Case

Dec. 10, 1963 - Frank Sinatra Sr. made a surprise flight to Los Angeles from Reno tonight and plunged into a frenzy of activity as...

Dec 10, 2023

Brooklyn Authorities Arrest Gallo Criminal Gang

Dec. 10, 1963 - Brooklyn authorities sought today to end the bloody Gallo-Profaci Mafia war by arresting and arraigning one of the...

Dec 10, 2023

Two Prominent California Attorneys To Defend Jack Ruby

Dec. 10, 1963 - Two prominent California attorneys, Melvin Belli of San Francisco (pictured) and Sam Brody of Los Angeles, said today...

Dec 10, 2023

Search for Frank Sinatra Jr. Continues

Dec. 10, 1963 - Agents of the FBI and sheriff’s squads pressed a search in the snow-covered mountains around Lake Tahoe last night for...

Dec 9, 2023

FBI “Risk List” Did Not Include Oswald

Dec. 9, 1963 - The FBI gave the Secret Service a “risk list” of Dallas individuals in advance of President Kennedy’s fatal trip, but the...

Dec 9, 2023

🚨Frank Sinatra Jr. Kidnapped

Dec. 9, 1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr., 19-year-old son of the famed entertainer, was kidnapped at gunpoint from his Nevada motel last night...

Dec 6, 2023

GOP Congressmen Reject Collective Blame for JFK Assassination

Dec. 6, 1963 - Congressional Republicans deplored today what they called attempts to blame “hatred” in this country for the assassination...

Dec 6, 2023

Oswald’s Widow Wishes to Remain in U.S.

Dec. 6, 1963 - The Russian-born widow of Lee Harvey Oswald was quoted today as saying she “wants to be an American and continue to live...

Dec 6, 2023

Dallas Police: Oswald Tried to Assassinate Edwin Walker

Dec. 6, 1963 - A rifle shot that narrowly missed former Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker, an angry critic of President Kennedy, in his Dallas home...

Dec 3, 2023

Hunt Continues for Actress’s Strangler

Dec. 3, 1963 - Sheriff’s detectives said last night that the lives of slain actress Karyn Kupcinet and her boyfriend, TV actor Andrew...

Dec 2, 2023

More Information on Lee Harvey Oswald

Dec. 2, 1963 - A good deal of information has now come to light indicating that Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin of President...

Dec 1, 2023

Actress Strangled in Hollywood

Dec. 1, 1963 - A strangler killed Karyn Kupcinet, 22-year-old actress, a surgeon reported after an autopsy today. Her nude body was found...

Dec 1, 2023

Oswald Described by Acquaintances as Anti-Social

Dec. 1, 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald was a “loner” who did not have friends in the Marines, a Milwaukee man who served with him said today....

Nov 23, 2023

New Strangling Victim in Boston Area

Nov. 24, 1963 - Joann Marie Graff, a 22-year-old industrial designer who recently came to Lawrence, Mass., from Chicago, was found dead...

Oct 16, 2023

Valachi Testifies Before Queens Grand Jury

Oct. 16, 1963 - Protected by dozens of federal marshal and cops toting submachine guns, shotguns, rifles, and binoculars, Joseph Valachi,...

Oct 9, 2023

Valachi Airs More of Mob’s Dirty Laundry

Oct. 9, 1963 - Underworld songbird Joseph Valachi today told Senate racket probers how he recruited three killers and then fingered...

Oct 3, 2023

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...

Oct 2, 2023

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...

Oct 1, 2023

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...