The Congress & Cosa Nostra - Joe Valachi Hearings (1963)

[@markward9331]

Finally, I have waited years to see all this and not just the same old short clips. Thanks

[@meddem1744]

Fact.

[@citypopFM]

Valachi testified for about two weeks for these hearings so I hope we're able to see all of them. It's worthwhile American history worth preserving and sharing for everyone to see. Valachi was exposing a secret society on live television when Hoover and others insisted organized crime didn't exist.

[@187EMIR]

Und ich warte immer noch auf Deutsch..seit jahren

[@citypopFM]

This is fantastic, I've seen a handful of clips from these hearings over the years, but I've never come across an extended video close to this. Thank you so much for the upload! This is a relic of modern American history.

[@darrenmcg97]

What about the book

[@citypopFM]

@@darrenmcg97 The book by Maas is one thing but seeing footage from the hearings is certainly worth watching and preserving.

[@darrenmcg97]

@@citypopFM yes I've watch it on mobfax '

[@amerigovespucci3956]

Just a month later Kennedy was murdered

[@raulmacias6146]

I also want to see the live televised McClellan Committee Labor Rackets Hearings in which Robert F. Kennedy was Chief Prosecutor. The hearings took place in the late 50s.

[@yeayaa6015]

The quality is phenomenal, thx so much for posting!!

[@VAcreeper]

💯

[@michaelmitchell5098]

This is better than a movie…straight, no chaser!

[@craigmcinnes4116]

From an interested party in Scotland, thank you so much for this upload. Phenomenal document of not just Mafia, but social history. Bravo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@marcocaruso4777]

I’ve been looking for this footage for years, can’t beloved you found it. Thanks!

[@dennisclancy6729]

That's because he mentioned your great uncle Angelo haha..just kidding,but your your right it's better than the short reels we have been getting for years.. MUCH LOVE FROM SCOTLAND 🤍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jacksonwhite421]

Pure gold. Real American history. So overlooked by the youth because it was before our time. But what a glimpse we get to have. Best channel on KZbin.

[@citypopFM]

It's great history and Mobfax is a treasure for finding this footage. I have been very interested in mob history for a long, long time, and I have never seen this on the Internet before. Valachi was literally exposing a secret society on live television in a time when Hoover said organized crime doesn't exist. It's absolutely significant American history. I hope we can find all of Valachi's testimony for these hearings because he sat and spoke there for about two weeks.

[@Semtex_1992]

Your American history? There's bars where I'm from which have been open since the 1500's. It's always funny hearing an American talk about 'history'.

[@jacksonwhite421]

@@Semtex_1992 learn to read.

[@scottbuono2507]

@@Semtex_1992So there’s a bar where your from that’s been open since the year 1500?? Ok I’m just gonna take a wild guess about the rest of the story they serve drinks there am I close??

[@JimmyBoy9878]

​@@scottbuono2507yeah. Its a bar. What'd you expect?

[@thomasthomas2418]

Back when the television news organizations sought to INFORM the public, not spread propaganda.

[@Johnny2Bags47]

exactly and to be able to smoke in the courtroom. F',n sweeeeet

[@Elbowbanditest2003]

There was definitely still propaganda on the news, just not obvious, 1963 was around the height of the cold war remember, both sides had propaganda, NATO countries just had good propaganda and the communists had very bad propaganda. We still have propaganda today, it's just something all countries do regardless, even if its good gestures (to gane the favour of the public).

[@shawnj-o1k]

Turn on a congressional hearing now and it’s trans evil fighting over bathrooms what a bunch of evil clowns lol 😂traitors

[@maganazikaren2211]

Before faux koolaid machine

[@edsmith4821]

Disagree , communism was a massive propaganda campaign by American at that time

[@dennisclancy6729]

This channel and oc shorts are the best ,most informative and the upmost quality by a country mile.. much love from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤍

[@gasperstarina9837]

OC shortz is amazing, how he got all of the socuments, snitch 302s,...

[@sustomusickillsyoutube]

This is exactly what I was looking for; uninterrupted video hearings from the past, especially about crime. Thank so much for posting this, from my understanding it's difficult to find their outside of official archives. Much appreciated!! If you have more, on any range of topics, I know I'd love to see them!

[@DavidRualeo]

Exactly

[@geofre44]

Awesome. Just incredible history unfolding here

[@jaytelso3921]

Simply fascinating!!! Just love the way Valachi says "Huh?" when something is unclear at times. Loooooove it! Sooooo original!

[@trinihammer]

when you consider thats how lucky luciano and genovese use to speak as well as valachi was around the same time as them.

[@misterslats]

I'm sorry but Joe Valachi was a charismatic man. Even his FBI handler said after his death "he was a great guy". There are no button men left like this. He's a genuine historical figure.

[@booklover3959]

Brilliant footage....please put up the other parts. This is amazing stuff and MOBFAX is the best at giving such historical impossible to find footage. Kudos.

[@robj2027]

Hope you have the rest of it. Great stuff!

[@fuzzyjavi]

A member of an organized crime family explaining criminal details to members of organized criminal political parties. 🤣 They were taking notes!!

[@Johnny2Bags47]

for sure. they were probably saying here here smoke up guy

[@lovedove6751]

J Edgar Hoover denied the Mafia existed ,So when Joe testified Hoover had to come up with some story to set the record straight

[@chrisguerra355]

Hoover was a yutz

[@nysports5085]

It’s legend that the mob had pictures of him cross dressing

[@lovedove6751]

@@nysports5085 Yeah I read a good book about Hoover, It said the mob had dirt on him and made him a lot of money from rigged horse racing. Can you imagine how many years it would take if you had access to all of Hoovers wiretaps? IDK when they first began wiretapping but it had to be at least 3 decades of his reign. I always wondered what he did with them?

[@daysworkco.]

yoo i appperciate this! I've been searching everywhere for the full hearing salute mobfax

[@darioorgiano4823]

So glad this upload is back on this channel!

[@ralphiewigs2208]

The good old days when you could leave iron pipes laying around in a prison yard.

[@samc5588]

Loooooool! Good one 😂

[@artieborko4988]

*And permitted to hold on to it until you get some quick face time with the warden. 😂

[@rogerlewis7770]

Nice one 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@hugosophy]

Just ask Christopher Scarver

[@vincentmoran7592]

😅

[@rafaelmillan5800]

Fantastic thank you great footage 💪🏽

[@freddiszilagi5445]

Thank you for posting My introduction to my lifelong interest in cosa nostra began after reading the book as a child

[@randybailin4902]

No one makes the connection, but Bobby Kennedy was the main mover to get Valachi to testify. His brother was murdered less than 2 months after this testimony.

[@Ram-by2gz]

That's an interesting fact I never heard thought I always figured from about 1966 that Oswald didn't kill Kennedy and if he did he didn't do it alone. The Zapruder film clearly shows a front head shot and the autopsy and Warren commission was a cover up. This is a fact that goes along with all the other facts about Joe Kennedy's Mafia connections and the supposed deal he made with the Chicago Mafia boss to help his son get elected and special favors if he did. Mafia boss got really pissed off when Robert Kennedy became attorney general and went after the Mafia. That's one of the reasons for Kennedy being killed.

[@ioioioioio265]

Esatto. Arguta osservazione, una evidenza da tutti ignorata.

[@unfreeze18]

First hand knowledge from someone who was there at the beginning, waiting for pt 2

[@hugosophy]

Whoa! I’ve been wanting to see this for so long

[@jayfbee]

Has anyone ever seen 'The Valachi Papers' movie from 1972 starring Charles Bronson?

[@ralphiewigs2208]

Yeah, it was okay but would be nice to see a good remake. He was an interesting character with a good memory.

[@hugosophy]

Great film!!

[@keithbyrd-MysticRuby0117]

I watched it was a good movie

[@sonnygarcia353]

Good some graphic stuff but good old skool gangster film

[@warriorv9359]

Dawm i didn't know there was a movie like that charles bronson one of my favorites

[@456casino6]

Thanks for all your work this is a fantastic video The archives

[@binko969]

Awesome post. One of the best mobfax has uploaded. Great ty

[@Idkwhatsupwithyou]

Incredible footage, fantastic!

[@michaelle4917]

Love this pure mafia history footage. Back in the days were straight to the point & clear clarity questions & answers not like modern day court crap ! La Cosa Nostra

[@ark1772]

This was amazing. I’ve been wanting see this since I read the Valachi Papers 35 years ago. I hope you can find the rest of his testimony.

[@eddiesoto2677]

me too

[@meddem1744]

How much is missing?

[@citypopFM]

@@meddem1744 Valachi's testimony went on for like a couple weeks. There is a lot that is oddly not freely available, but Mobfax pulled through with finding this hour of questioning which is the longest I have ever seen.

[@currypablo]

Even to this day his testimony is gripping and still relevant. Valachi though not well spoken could take over a room with his tales.

[@currypablo]

@@SteveSmith-kd9if 😅😅😅😅👍

[@citypopFM]

@@SteveSmith-kd9if He literally exposed the whole thing and was proven mostly right about everything he elaborated. The guy was there and part of Cosa Nostra from its very beginning and although not a charismatic figure or higher-up, he was still an inducted made man who knew the history of what was most definitely a secret society at the time.

[@swampghost72]

​​@@SteveSmith-kd9if actually everything he spoke about turned out to be very true.valachi was a real throwback.he was around to see the commission form ..he met or knew guys from the late 1800's -1900's he was around before the commission.. nothing he spoke on was tales.

[@dennissettlemyre917]

@@swampghost72 …..Yep! He was made in 1930. They didn’t even kill Maranzano and make it what we all know until ‘31. So he was around for all of it, basically. Even the war between Masseria and Maranzano.

[@scottbuono2507]

@@SteveSmith-kd9ifOh man so everybody else was lying too?? Shit..one of these days when you’re not busy can you tell us all what really happened??🙏🏼

[@donaldcramond9641]

Brilliant upload thanks.

[@sethlindsay6990]

he wasn't trying to get revenge he was trying to survive he knew if he wasn't in protective custody he wasn't going to survive

[@bonniegranier2890]

THESE ARE AMAZING!!

[@stevenpeeven3169]

This is fantastic. I've wanted more of the Valachi hearings for years. Next up I want to see more of the Frank Costello hearings. Pretty please Mobfax, make it happen.

[@darrenmcg97]

Have you read the book and if so was it good

[@idiotwind2248]

I paint houses

[@big_time9484]

I must say that the Crime Commission has ask Joe Valachi some very important questions of this "Thing Of Ours" to be so new to everyone from what we know today.... very intriguing this Joe Valachi to be the First to ever bring "This Thing" Of Ours to life... thank you so much *MOBFAX* for such a classic as this... Cosa Nostra inter workings from it's Beginnings to it's Endings...thank you so much MOBFAX 😉😎✨🎇

[@mikehunt3746]

The government knew much about lcn before valachi doh.

[@C.O-EDITS]

@@mikehunt3746no doubt but this was the first time the public really heard about lcn

[@raulmacias6146]

Attorney General Robert Francis Kennedy was the prime mover in having these hearings televised. These televised hearings brought "La Cosa Nostra" to the attention of the American people.

[@allaboutjapan-q7j]

love how you watermark your stuff, don't let the fakers get you! good work.

[@rodderickjames-bp5rp]

Thanks 🙏

[@zeppelinboys]

thanks for this upload! things are so different today this might as well have been 500 years ago.

[@nozh2krov]

Wow. How did you get this. I’ve been wanting to see this for years!! Thank you.

[@SniffMyDeadwax]

They know people. Capeesh? 😉

[@kaylav.1491]

The Kiss of Death. Vito Genovese gave one to Joe Valacchi, and Joe gave one back to Vito. Then all night long in the darkened cell block, across from each other in their bunks, they kept an eye on one another.

[@ChosenOne1991]

Yes it was so Romantic how they couldnt take their eyes off each other after kissing. Thinking about each other into the long night.

[@stockstock6805]

​@@ChosenOne1991😂😂

[@abovetheclouds1029]

​@@ChosenOne1991🤣

[@nagone11]

Quite interesting about Valachi...he did inform but no one went to jail directly from his testimony. Great footage here Mobfax this is awesome.

[@joeogdan5285]

Yes but he laid out the whole organization which indirectly gave a ton of openings to arrest and convict many guys. He crushed a lot of guys with his testimonies.

[@willmosse3684]

It’s hilarious the way he keeps correcting their pronunciation of Masseria to MASSeRI😂

[@TravelsChases]

His voice, slang and linguistics are very similar to Jackie Gleason's (Ralph Kramden). The same time frame . Very interesting

[@ajg2558]

Excellent post !!!

[@westonpeabody8010]

Bro fuck yeah! You always got the good shit!

[@josephdougherty3653]

This is a stellar piece of American history How this Valachi is not the subject of modern movies is hard to believe what an interesting character he was He goes back tp every major mob figure including Capone Lucky Vito Marrazzanp and even Lansky The stories this guy could have told would have been priceless to Hollywood

[@xtraspecialj]

He doesn't come across as a very intelligent guy. He doesn't know what the word "significance" means and just seems not super intelligent.

[@sampsonroofing7377]

There was a movie that came out in the early seventies starring Charles Bronson. It was Italian made.

[@z9zou]

@@xtraspecialj At that time they were first generation immigrants, they spoke half the time Italian and the other half English. Most straight guys dropped out of school so no wonder gangsters even dropped out. I think he is intelligent but his limited vocabulary gave you this perception.

[@mitchellbaker9434]

@@sampsonroofing7377 Right, "The Valachi Papers". Very well known movie back then.

[@josephdougherty3653]

@@sampsonroofing7377 thanks sampson roofing they gave it bad reviews but i love bronson and thought it was good !!

[@drakeheeley5995]

Thank you

[@SugoiEnglish1]

Gallos...."Are them the guys that make the wine?"

[@KOlsen-sk1oz]

In 1963, he was already an OG. Can you imagine that

[@SeeTheManipulation]

*@**39:20** That was Benny Siegel that punched Terranova (Artichoke King) off the steering wheel because he froze up. Benny was the only non-Italian in on the hit on Masseria. This is documented by mob historians in other books and articles. That's why Ciro lost face and slowly but surely, as Valachi says, his power was taken away. Many people don't know this, but Benny as well as Meyer Lansky, Buchalter, Gurrah, Madden, Schultz, etc., were all part of the National Syndicate. The Syndicate was made up of Italian and non-Italian bosses of equal power and status. This is why when Benny set up shop in California for the Syndicate (Lucky and Lansky), he ran roughshod over Jack Dragna and Johnny Roselli. Both of these Italian bosses knew Benny was also a boss and all-powerful and untouchable. That's when Dragna and Roselli fell in line with Benny and the Dragna family as well as Chicago (race wire, hollywood) and prospered. Fascinating historical interview of one of the most important slayings in Cosa Nostra history.*

[@tonymazz9912]

Thank you for this. What a life these guys lived..

[@chrisguerra355]

Absolutely true

[@sirosis7858]

It's odd how the "mafia" tag only gets slapped on Italian criminals, but nobody ever talks about the OTHER ethnic group that made up at least half of the mob. Wonder why that is?

[@citypopFM]

Everything you typed is actually all true and you should be commended for being learned and accurate in your reading and understanding of this history. Very rare to find in KZbin comments and the Internet in general. Thank you for actually knowing what you're talking about.

[@alexf9381]

Siegel was not part of the Masseria hit. That was originally claimed decades later after the fact first by a now discredited book that was proven to be based on lies. People like Siegel were added to the hit squad to make it more appealing to the reader. Then following mob books simply regurgitated the false information written in that initial book and that's why so many people believe it to this day.

[@booklover3959]

This man goes all the way back to Maranzano who he was under. He warned Maranzano not to be at his office unarmed and without armed bodyguards. The mafioso ignored his warning and was murdered by hitmen posing as IRS agents I believe. I am kind of surprised that Luciano and Lansky got the best of him because he was very smart and a true warrior. Lansky was smart as they come though....Luciano said he could "see around corners."

[@juancervantes4085]

@ Booklover If Lansky was so smart how could he not see the overthrow of Batista coming and cashing out in Cuba before the Revolution. As a matter of fact his own pet project the Riviera Casino was also lost. He crapped out in Cuba!

[@adrianotero7963]

@Juan Cervantes lots of people did not see the overthrow of Batista.....Lansky was just one of many......only smart gangster that saw it was Michael Corleone......Lol

[@danevertt3210]

I’ve always wondered how he went from Maranzano/Bonanno to eventually being a solder for Genovese

[@str8kronic]

4 Jews lol

[@papagiorgio2493]

This is amazing footage

[@carlodago8783]

brilliant video thanks

[@NFTenjoyer]

I love this! Fantastic news

[@booklover3959]

The way Valachi soooo casually says he killed for the organization without any emotion is bone chilling. Why the senator announces to the world that three painters saw a Mafia murder thus putting the witnesses lives in danger I will never know. He is chastising the Policeman Salerno while giving this information to everyone on live television.....jeeeeez.

[@coreywolcott8459]

The way he testified so nonchalant is bone chilling

[@jbgibson2026]

The 3 painters they haven't been able to contact? I doubt they were ever contacted.

[@dondevine7272]

L pm

[@Dm_Classic01]

That’s because he knew they going to ask that, and he prepared for that answer

[@michaelrussell7634]

Have watched it several times. Very interesting.

[@luigidicianni6462]

Amazing thanks

[@oscarpena6691]

Im back for the 10th time. Love it just love this

[@johnishikawa2200]

Listening to him - Valachi - describe the methods of his gang's operations in the robberies of jewelry stores , fur stores , and the like , reminds me of the way gangs of youths stage robberies of shops and boutiques today , in 2023 . Valachi and the young criminals that he ran with were pulling these very similar sounding type crimes in the years 1922 , and 1923 . About 100 years ago .

[@joshuaturnage5243]

This was in Oct of 1963 before Kennedy was assassinated in Nov of 1963. Now it makes sense.

[@MitchClement-il6iq]

Cia and the mob no doubt!

[@johnwright291]

This a treat to say the least. Didn't know it existed

[@winstonsmith3070]

Absolutely riveting...

[@SonOfNun84]

And to think before this people believed the Mafia was just an urban legend. I always point to this whenever I get heat for my "conspiracy theories".

[@larrywheels762]

Whenever I get attacked for conspiracy theories, I tell them about organized crime back then. The mob was a huge criminal conspiracy.

[@tonyaccardo3052]

Thank you for this video What a piece of history of the american mafia keep up the great work cheers 😎👍

[@ronalddeavy2657]

Love all the nicknames they had for each other lol

[@Dobad415]

It seems like these senators ,or whatever they were, wasnt even paying attention to the answers he's giving to their questions.

[@tblack9711]

exactly. Its irritating that he has to keep repeating himself because they can't hear anything. I had to pause it because it was starting to piss me off. 🤬

[@yomama412]

ANOTHER GOOD ONE MOE..

[@sugarsauce2435]

I'd LOVE to see and hear some of our government employees testify to what THEY have done!

[@EndofCamelot]

Cab Sav and MOBFAX. Excellent video. Salud.

[@keeprightx]

Crazy to see this today

[@timcross2510]

His sister,Joan, was one of my neighbors for twenty five years. I once broached the issue with her. Her change to someone with huge, dilated pupils confirmed all my questions. I told her I was out of line and named the high ranking Bufolino associates who lived where I grew up. I also said " I have been instructed to not talk about goes on in our house, OR OUR NEIGHBORS HOUSES..

[@martindzhebarov6625]

amazing to watch

[@juancervantes4085]

The Family had a lot of buffers!

[@reginaldcrain4428]

Yeah that it buffers. 😅😅 lol

[@darkstar92772]

Not sure where I read it but there is speculation that Valachi was fed information that was picked up on illegal wire taps because he knows too much about the national structure for just being a soldier.

[@willmosse3684]

It’s most likely true. Not for the stuff he was talking about here, because this is stuff he was actually involved in or close to. But when it comes to organisational structure stuff for sure. He said who was in what position on the Commission, and spelt out the administration of all 27 families around the country. No way some soldier in NY should know who was consiglieri in Houston or LA or Kansas City. He might happen to hear about any particular place, but all of them?

[@darkstar92772]

@@willmosse3684 I commented before I watched the whole video. I anticipated him talking about all that other stuff. I agree. He knew way too much about the national structure for a soldier. I’d this is out there I’m sure the other stuff is somewhere.

[@willmosse3684]

@@darkstar92772 The written transcripts are out there, but I’ve not seen more footage than this elsewhere. MOBFAX has two or three other 30 minute segments of the hearings, including Valachi talking about his making ceremony iirc, though I think quite a bit of it overlaps with this. I haven’t found more footage than that anywhere else, and I’ve dedicated some effort to trying. Props to MobFax for scouring the archives for us!

[@darkstar92772]

@@willmosse3684 Thanks for the heads up. The transcripts would be an interesting read. Your right though, mobfax is doing a great job.

[@hugosophy]

Soldiers are still made men.

[@BillyBobThot]

FINALLY!!!!!

[@riceflatpicking4954]

Back when Senate hearings were taken seriously. Can you imagine Kamala Harris walking in in the middle of this?

[@danevertt3210]

Do you see the vice president in this video?

[@MitchClement-il6iq]

​@@danevertt3210smarten up

[@zeppelinboys]

that goes for all the clowns in our government today.

[@muckstar23]

When making the movie Valachi papers with Charles Bronson filmmakers got a call warning them to stop filming and they move the whole production to Italy

[@BostonsF1nest]

Valachi got a raw deal. Outlined the hierarchy of damn near every family in the country then spent the rest of his life in prison anyways 😂

[@deanmartin7924]

Some deal i made 'Frenky Pentangelli'

[@starguy2718]

@@deanmartin7924 They made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

[@citypopFM]

They didn't know how to deal with this stuff back then. Remember, Valachi was exposing a secret society that Hoover and others publicly said didn't exist. They outright denied that organized crime even existed under this notion that all crime is lone, random, and committed solely by misfits to society. To the eyes of the police and law, Valachi was still a thug, heroin dealer, and murderer who was saving his own skin by giving testimony about something these people at the time were certainly interested in but were still very skeptical. He was definitely given some treatment during his testimony at DC but otherwise, you're right, he was given a raw deal. Still, there was no WITSEC back then, no precedents for this, no protocols, and they didn't know what to do with him because he was literally the first to talk about something they were told was a fairytale.

[@BostonsF1nest]

@@citypopFM You’d think common sense would throw him a fuckin bone

[@BigBand1942]

He got a good deal he didn't get executed he was a murderer he murdered at least over 50 people Mike from Utica

[@David-zx3dr]

They would have been killing their own family members if what you suggested was implemented. Valachi's wife was first cousin to Tommy Lucchese I believe. Her father was Gaetano Reina and was Maranzano's underboss. Many inducted members have familial relations amongst their own crime family and others. I'll also add that Joseph Valachi is probably one of the most misunderstood figures in Cosa Nostra history. He was screwed royally by the former Luciano/Genovese family administration and boss (under Vito's reign). Valachi represents the first publicly acknowledged false wire on a stand-up guy. If you have NOT read Joseph Valachi's original manuscript, "The Real Thing" (almost 1400pages?) Then you should read it. This man was front and center in the life during black hand era, Masseria and Maranzano Castellamarese War and finally the Creation of American Cosa Nostra under Lucky Luciano, inducted original member. HE KNEW THE LIFE BETTER THAN MANY IF NOT MOST. HIS INSIGHT IS TOTALLY UNDERRATED.

[@danevertt3210]

Where can this manuscript be found?????

[@David-zx3dr]

@@danevertt3210 mafiahistory.us/a023/therealthing.htm

[@misterslats]

Are you saying Valachi had the black hand tattoo?

[@David-zx3dr]

@@misterslats he wasn't blackhand, he observed the tail end of that era and was thick in the castellamarese.

[@sean5520]

Valachi really did testify out of spite and revenge. He was doing life anyway at that point.

[@antoinesilva1527]

It was said that he was possibly facing the electric chair (or whatever the hell they used for execution then). Massino also testified to avoid fighting death charges.

[@anthonydelgrosso4818]

He got life

[@joeogdan5285]

Massino wasn't getting the death penalty he was getting the economic death penalty. He testified to Dave all the money, gold bars and the houses under his wife's name. He got little time and kept most of his money. The death penalty wasn't used in NY when Massino testified that's an excuse he used to justify him ratting.

[@MABMGuitar]

@@joeogdan5285they were federal charges.

[@quitefranklysamanthatheres1018]

Suspicious kiss is killing me- the apple was touched. Lol 😂

[@tomc8617]

I suspect that Valachi killed that guy in the prison courtyard not because he believed the guy was going to kill him but rather because the guy had said something to him that he didn't like, possibly something relating to him being a rat. He then concocted the story about him thinking the guy was going to kill him as the best possible excuse he could come up with given the circumstances.

[@matthewhartley4615]

Amazing

[@paulm8327]

I'd be curious if he went into more detail about what trouble Luciano and Genovese helped Meyer Lansky with after the murder of Maranzano. Anyone know what he's referring to?

[@BostonsF1nest]

I’ve always been amazed and somewhat baffled at how much Valachi knew about the structure of each family in NYC and around the country

[@bbcr11]

Why?

[@joseph8110]

Because it’s suppose to be a secret organisation!

[@BostonsF1nest]

@@bbcr11 Why would he possibly know or have all that information? There’s a rumor most of it was coming from Greg Scarpa

[@bbcr11]

@@joseph8110 secret to outsiders!! He was a made guy- and was Vito Genovese driver. You think maybe Vito had conversations with him?

[@bbcr11]

@@BostonsF1nest He was A made guy. They all know whats going on with the others families- they have dealings with each other, know each other growing up and live in the same neighborhoods. Whats so hard to understand?

[@artieborko4988]

This fuckin’ Mobfax is really something. This is beautiful shit. Now get ova here and let me pinch those bulldog cheeks! 💋

[@nuffsaid783]

Borgata, sottocapo, consigliere, commissione, caporegime, cosa nostra.......all these Italian words must have shocked the nation back then

[@williammatthews7252]

Valachi was an old time Gangster he knew the 25 Mafia families and more

[@jimdocker9606]

great stuff,do you have the other half

[@dsd7004]

Have you got the part where Valachi is naming different families members??

[@MOBFAX]

Not yet.

[@warshipsatin8764]

back when they had lead pipes just lying around the prison yard

[@dyno40]

Is anyone aware of where additional footage of this testimony can be watched?

[@pab1381]

I love these. Back in that time they say certain words that I find hilarious. Like how he says “first”. He says “foist” lol. Senator Curtis looks like a mobster as well. Sitting back smoking a cigar like that during a court hearing.

[@robj2027]

"Nineteen Thoity One"

[@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820]

“Dey put me in da clink fuh moida in da foist degree”

[@shaunpaulwoods6509]

Valachi is a talker for real, and the senator cuts him off alot.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

The Senator's intent was making things crystal clear and easy to follow. Joe's recollections are rather fractured.

[@jamesstewart8377]

You can see Valachi is a lot more credible than I had believed before seeing this. Guy was definitely telling the truth.

[@exwyzee]

I would love to hear the thoughts of the lady secretary in the room. She heard every grumble and whisper, probably before, during and after.

[@JohnCasciello]

That HUGH FELLA in BACK OF VALACHI on VALACHIS LEFT is making ME watching this 1963 film VERY NERVOUS even tho MY DOORS ARE ALL LOCKED TIGHT 60 YEARS LATER ******