Biographies of organized crime and Mafia figures based on Jay Robert Nash's book Bloodletters and Badmen - A Narrative Encyclopedia of the American Criminal. Covering the Italian mobs, both the Mafia and the Camorra, Irish and Jewish Gangsters, and prohibition gangs. Researched, written and Narrated by G. Marshall Johnson.
Just an FYI...I am a one man crew. I write the script and then record it. I then go through the recording editing as I go. . I search for the images. I find the background music, I then lay both tracks together. After all of this, which takes a few days, I begin putting the video together. I then upload it to RU-vid. For those of you who think I have a staff of helpers....think again!
Fun fact: Pete Lemongello and Don Rickles were featured entertainers at the Copa the night of Joe Gallo's death. They were both invited to Umberto's by Joe, and both got out of going, which may have saved them from getting caught in the crossfire.
So, Valero was cellmates with the biggest liar ever Valachi!, in 1918, when Valero was convicted fa murder???,So that means he was in a cell, with a 14 year old, cause Valachi was born in 1904!, Research my guy!, im a mob historian since 1986, I go off the top of the head!!!
The Black Hand was hardly unique to Italians. Hell, the Serbian nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand was also part of the Black Hand. It’s kind of an umbrella term for a type of extortion racket.
You don't have to upload every week, please take your time, also as a Nursing student, i know how hard having a stroke is, so please keep yourself busy, take care of your health and always be positive. I hope this isn't goodbye and that we will see you again.
I lived next to Joseph Bonanno in Tucson years ago.. he lived at 255 N Sierra Vista dr and we lived at 275 N Sierra Vista dr. He looked like a small old man every time I'd see him.
The Ant was intelligent but at the same time something in his brain wasn’t clicking right. He could wine and dine with one and kill them at the snap of one’s fingers. Tony ran Las Vegas into the ground and ruined the skim for the Chicago Outfit. His runaway ego and arrogance got him and his brother a dirt pile grave in a corn Feild.
When I used to work night shift on a dock to pay my way through college your videos were what I would listen to getting ready for work and driving there. Thanks for making a rough part of my life a little more enjoyable. Have a good one sir.
Born in Newark. The post MLK murder riots put the final touch to Newarks demise. In 1968 it became a war zone. My recall is that Newark, like NJ was corrupt but managed to work and thrive. The democrat machine was in control. Used to see Dave Zwillman, brother, buying bagels on weekends at Watson Bagel. Recall news piece about newpaper photographer taking photo of Mr. Zwillman, which waa nor welcomed. He had henchman grab camera and break it on pavement. Coincident with this the photographer was given cash to pay for the damage. Similar to James Caan in Godfather. I recall the Newark PD had a reputation for corruption. My Uncle made book and many police laid bets with him. Newark was literally divided into ethnic areas. North, Irish. Down Neck Porugese. East Italian. South, Jewish. THE CITY HAD A CERTAIN CHARM BEFORE 1968. SHAME IT DISAPPEARED
Whenever he is photographed by cops he looks like he wants to kill them compared to the pictures with his family . This guy makes Sammy the snitch look like a school girl .
