Aug 19, 2023Thomas (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, 2023Execution at Sing SingAug. 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, 2023Retired NYPD Detective Chief: Gallos Losing War with Profaci GangAug. 14, 1963 - Raymond V. Martin, retired chief of detectives in Brooklyn South, the heart of that borough’s Cosa Nostra crime...
Aug 9, 2023Gallo-Profaci War Continues in BrooklynAug. 9, 1963 - The five-year underworld war between the Gallo and Profaci gangs of Brooklyn reached a new peak of violence today with the...