Uncovering The Deadliest Mob Boss In History | Mafia's Greatest Hits |

Despite a volatile temper and a love of show business, Sam Giancana rose to be the richest and most powerful mafia boss of his day.
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[@r-leanmygirl-gj2kt]

Bobby Kennedy hated the mob, but he didn't mind daddy Joe building his empire working with them. An empire that got brother Jack and he to the top of the heap.

[@KrishnaSingh-ow1ie]

That's not true. They didn't know there father was connected with mob. He should of told them it was the mafia that got you in office and made me rich. They bought all the votes. Don't mess with them. He killed both of his sons by nothing telling them.

[@Rexx27]

This is how a documentary should be made. Great story 👏🏻 👍🏻👍🏻

[@jessegibbons3562]

End day you you deal the best

[@johnnyraider]

U GOT THAT RIGHT, REXX😊😊😊😊😊

[@joeyjamison5772]

Just cold, hard facts.

[@JE4-1]

A fish that keeps his mouth closed, never gets caught - Tony Accardo

[@davidc3839]

It also starves.

[@barriolimbas]

The Big Tuna, never been caught

[@djquinn11]

That’s for suckers…

[@jonathanjrgensen8676]

and it starves to death

[@johnbravo7542]

I love the old mafia boss sayings

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

Giancana was the "Front Boss". The real boss at this time was Tony Accardo who shunned attention.

[@stevebohla6473]

This is absolutely true. Tony Accardo was hands down the most successful, mobster that ever lived and he ruled the Chicago outfit far longer than any others in any other families let alone his own.. and he never spent a single night in jail...

[@dukedematteo1995]

Thats not true. For some reason that idea is out there. Chicago didn't function like NY. Giancana and Accardo were both "bosses." But Sam was the boss of the Taylor St crew, and Accardo was a Cicero guy. During the 50s and 60's, Taylor St was the more influential crew, so he was the top boss in the Outfit. Accardo was always a prominent, influential figure, but he didn't outrank Sam during the 50s and 60s.

[@jonnytlong]

@@dukedematteo1995that’s kind of true but if Accardo wanted something done it got done whether Sam wanted it or not. So in a way, he did outrank everyone else.

[@9999bigb]

Paul Ricca before Accardo. Both men silent as church mice.

[@AndrewRobertson-kl4vi]

​@@dukedematteo1995 Absolute nonsense. Who copped 5 to the back of the head and one in the mouth. Giancana was a lightning rod. End of.

[@user-ci2mn1oy3w]

Carlo Gambino was the only one who ever learned. He never spoke about biz. He wrote messages on a chalk board, showed one to ONE person, and immediately erased that message. He made a note of who he'd shown what, so that he'd know who was a rat for the cops if anything happened.

[@Scalettadom]

Don't forget Tony Accardo. He ran a whole city, and really a better part of the country, for decades.

[@mattblatti7936]

​@Scalettadom exactly, you know how you can tell Tony Acardo was the best of all time... they really think bosses like Sam were really the boss.

[@Scalettadom]

@@mattblatti7936 exactly!

[@lyndaehrich5809]

You're forgetting Joe Profaci. Master of keeping a low profile. Still very effective.

[@knockknock1246]

I lived directly across the hall from a Gambino in an apartment complex in Denver a while back. Great conversationalist she was. Grocery shopped with her a couple of times, too. Just the most kind-hearted gal a man could meet. 👍.

[@Tony-gq8pi]

Joe Kennedy was a mobster himself, Karam is amazing

[@darrellmoore1743]

It's interesting that the son of a gangster was questioning everybody about gangsters!

[@seanohare5488]

No Kennedy was a very successful businessman

[@skoodercrunch2821]

@@capoislamort100Truth. 👍

[@waltertucker4297]

Government period wat !!I knew that since I was a kid ,,

[@richardhowe5583]

What about Grandpa Bush?

[@beautifullifemedia2733]

The scary part of this is that both Kennedy's were targeted...both were attacked and taken out, that is definitely no coincidence.

[@claudiotagini]

coincidence in having JFK as the biggest obstacle for Kommunist Russia to bring missile to Cuba and his assassination?

[@yesterdayproductions1019]

The Kennedy's were both big lying HYPOCRITES.

[@jimgraham6722]

Very likely. The circumstances around the deaths of both are very weird. It's most likely someone was getting even.

[@beautifullifemedia2733]

@@jimgraham6722 most definitely.

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

Carlos Marcelo of New Orleans and Trafficanti of Tampa killed the president. Gianncona killed Bobby.😮

[@jimcochran1128]

Same stuff going on today in the Washington DC SWAMP.

[@user-ld2fl7vv9g]

yep, shite house has be rife with corruption since bush and trump

[@barbaracrain2975]

Nailed it!!!😢

[@jimgraham6722]

In the basement of the pissa shop?

[@johnhood5274]

If you talking about trump & Biden. I don’t think so because trump is just as dumb as rocks. And his heart pump kool-aid. All talk and no action. I knew that from day one, about trump. We know a person by their work’s.

[@Sosolidcrew]

Tony Acardo was the real powerhouse of Chicago

[@chicagomike4587]

YES - he certainly was.

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

Tony Accardo was one of the most competent and powerful figures in the history of American organized crime.

[@flamboyentpromotions3471]

An Paul Ricca

[@dukedematteo1995]

Chicago did not function like NY. Accardo did not have Carlo Gambino like power for 50 straight years. He was always an influential figure, but he wasn't the undisputed boss of Chicago for 50 years, nor did he weild a NY boss like power for multiple decades. He was always influential but his actual power level waxed and waned over the decades. He was the boss in the late 40s and early 50s....and again was a top figure in the 70s after the Cicero crew overtook the Taylor Street crew as the top crew in Chicago.

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

@@dukedematteo1995 The Chicago Outfit became the dominant crime family in the US west. They had their hands in Hollywood deeper than any NY family, and they were the dominant crime family running things in Las Vegas. The Outfit was extremely powerful In it's heydey. When the CIA decided to co-op the Mafia with its plan to assassinate Castro they had their emissary, Robert Mayhew(an FBI agent working on contract for the CIA), contact Johnny Roselli a old school Mafioso affiliated with the Outfit and the derided LA crime family who represented Sam Giancana in negotiations with the CIA. Basically, the CIA went to the Outfit instead of any NY family to have the Mafia do its dirty work in Cuba. Only half-hearted attempts on Castro's life were made and they failed. But the fact that the Outfit was enlisted rather than the Genovese or Gambino family or the other three(at the time) NY families speaks to the overall reach and power of the Outfit at the time.

[@propellerhead428]

No difference between Criminals and Politicians.

[@richardknight6539]

Politicians are worse

[@jimstultz3345]

Tragically that is correct.

[@iggyblitz8739]

It depends, some politicians yes, others no.

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

You are wise.

[@BarbaraWelcome-xy8nq]

That's the honest to God truth

[@anonone8954]

I'd have liked to heard the conversations of Joe Kennedy and Sam behind closed doors. The Kennedys paid dearly for not sticking to the deal.

[@A_Chicago_Man]

Yep! Ask Jimmy Files.

[@anonone8954]

@A_Chicago_Man I'll Google him. Anything else to look at?

[@Ignatius------6]

RFK Jr.. said that was all a ruse.

[@1fnklown]

The M.O.B at it's best, didn't have the resources the Government had, RFK Jr. brought some good stuff to light. The M.O.B didn't own the media or secret service, people played a part and didn't know it, they got orders to go here or there & thats all they knew, like the men who would have been around JFKs car that day he got hit.

[@Hits-Sandbox]

Be interesting to see the deal between Putin and Mole Traitor Trump.

[@princesspiplaysbass]

If anyone thinks that this is not going on right now, they are delusional.

[@reggaefan2700]

Bass player? I just read his brother's book. It was crazy the stuff that he was involved with.

[@susiepittman601]

Trump is a Russian asset. It's definitely going on right now.

[@HellcatMad]

More truths will be forthcoming I'm sure

[@oldcremona]

Perhaps, but you can't deny that a huge dent has been made in the mob in the last 20 years or so.

[@johnsononey]

No doubt , put all the mob hits together and it wouldn't even come close to the boys in Langley , Virginia . All ages ...

[@wcrimeusa]

You bring much-needed attention and respect to these stories. The malice of the crimes is heartbreaking.

[@simontemplar1]

Brilliant documentary..............seems like our government is no different than the mob

[@angelsgranny]

The mob doesn't kill women and children, and they have respect for America and God. The government is on a mission to destroy America from within. That's a huge difference.

[@asullivan4047]

Why would they be-???🤔.There's plenty of wealth💵 💰 to go around-!!!🤗.

[@George-dy3pt]

That's why they took them out!

[@deantonto1615]

Worse

[@bbe3034]

I watched a great documentary about the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The title is JFK to 911 Everything’s A Rich Mans Trick. It’s on KZbin if you’re interested! Bush Sr. is actually standing on the sidewalk near where JFK was murdered! Bush Sr. was actually with the CIA back then!!

[@45Jayyyy]

We live in a corrupt evil world.

[@1972dsrai]

The US is supposedly this great beacon for democracy and freedom yet is run by lobby groups that have more power than the president.

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

How astute !🙄

[@capoislamort100]

@@SeamusMcGillicuddy0IKR, sounds like something a 10 year old would say.

[@OldWrench59]

It seems to be what humanity wants.

[@edphillips2998]

If that were true, this wouldn’t be noteworthy.

[@origin-al9585]

Roy Demeo was literally the most feared gangster in that life!! Ex mobsters say that when he walked in a room, you could hear a pin drop.

[@keithheinz1724]

Wow

[@origin-al9585]

@@keithheinz1724 sarcasm?

[@mafiososamgiancana]

Chicago mobsters were very cruel and evil demeo was nothing compared to those psychopaths

[@mack8488]

I once tried to hear a pin drop.....no go whatsoever...impossible....thats how i know they where lying....but hey ....what do you expect from a bandido.?

[@origin-al9585]

@@mack8488 it’s only called a hyperbolic expression for a reason, but hey, take it literal. It’s all good 👍🏼

[@denniseubanks-go6bh]

The most powerful,and deadliest mob boss? That’s a lie. He was a puppet for the outfit.Accardo was boss! No boss was ever feared or deadly as Albert Anastasia. None.

[@danielhagan921]

You're certainly right about Accardo and include Ricca on that. Anastasia was deadly but found to be lacking in good judgment. To that point, try a hit on a totally unconnected (to the mob) man for "snitching" on a bank robber. Anastasia had become a liability to the mob and got rubbed out by Commission decision.The real power in the mob resides with smarter guys, eg. Gambino, Lucchese, Ricca and Accardo.

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

I don't know if Giancana was a "puppet". Giancana was a very powerful mobster. However, as you've stated the man who was really calling the shots was Accardo, and that's very well known.

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

@@danielhagan921 Frank Costello was very competent.

[@danielhagan921]

@@ericsierra-franco7802 He certainly was and I have never said otherwise. My very short list of names was not all-inclusive. What I gave are examples and true, Costello would be another example.

[@johnnyraider]

HMNNNN, COULD PROBABLY BE?😊😊😊😊😊

[@jameswebb4593]

Shut down the mafia , but left the biggest crime syndicate stronger then ever the CIA.

[@George-dy3pt]

FACTS

[@bbe3034]

I watched a great documentary on KZbin about the murder of JFK. The title is JFK to 911 Everything’s A Rich Man’s Trick!

[@jameswebb4593]

@@George-dy3pt Try writing a sentence . and not shout . That's assuming you can actually write a coherent sentence.

[@Alp560]

😂😂😂😅😅😅​@@jameswebb4593

[@paulyricca3881]

👴🏻🥃 THE CIA ??? U MUST BE BENNEDETT ARNOLD.

[@johngulino2651]

I come from a Sicilian family. My father, his family, and I have no sympathy with these violent, brutal sociopaths.

[@paulwerder3705]

Everytime I watch a mafia doc, whatever person or family it's about, Is always labelled the strongest person or strongest family, How many strongest people can there be?

[@Freakeasy_chicago]

New York had 5 families sharing the pot. Chicago , one. Everything West of Chicago was under the Chicago outfit's control

[@kirkanos3968]

Sam was no joke but kinda a joke Chicago was just using him and had to keep a close watch on him. Some would have loved to have him wacked many years before they did. If they think he killed more then Roy DeMeo, Greg Scarpa, Tommy Karate Pitera or Mad Dog Sullivan they are crazy.

[@weeooh1]

Tony Accardo was the top boss of the Outfit. Giancanna was simply a front man who took orders from him.

[@oldcremona]

Mob documentaries are always glamorized even if they claim to expose the truth. Mob stories are big business.

[@jasper3127]

​@@weeooh1Paul Ricca had equal power to Accardo, just a shorter tenure owing to his life being cut short by the rarest of Mafia dudes' fates; the big C.

[@davidhaynes3126]

It’s always a close friend.

[@Ada..D]

True, betrayal always arrives with a smile on its face.

[@chrisgerard1650]

He was a “street” or “front” boss for Tony Accardo and Paul Ricca.

[@DavidAntunes-rm7dq]

So it was 3 bosses, each playing their own positions in the organization.

[@dukedematteo1995]

That's not really true. There's so much misinfo about the Chicago mob bc people compare it to NY....It had a different structure. Accardo and Giancana were both "bosses". In this case, a boss was roughly the equivalent to capo in NY. But Giancana was the top boss in the Taylor St crew. Accardo was a top boss in the Cicero crew. Taylor St was the more powerful crew in the 50s and 60s, so in effect Giancana was the top boss in the Chicago mob during that time period. Accardo was always a powerful figure, but he did not outrank or have more power than Giancana during the 50s and 60s. This idea that Accardo held Carlo Gambino like power for 50 years just isn't true. Again, the Outfit didn't function like NY. Giancana was not a puppet boss.

[@kaylalane9130]

I love this channel. Every detail is broken down to bring you the facts. 💯🧐#realcrime

[@DavidAntunes-rm7dq]

Well, not necessarily, many of the so called facts are speculations made to create a story for views. I should know, I was Sam's driver.

[@michaeltischuk7972]

Robert should have investigated his own Father, Joe 😅

[@PopeyeSailor-wz7ew]

Better to investigate the competition. 🤷

[@craigbritton1089]

He was doing atonement for his father's sins

[@yankee2666]

@@craigbritton1089 ,,,And got his brother killed. Ohhh, yes he did. CIA was a non-factor used by left-wing Hollywood to denigrate the country. Go beyond what youve been told.

[@H8FUL4IM]

Oh that's right, the father that had his own daughter labotomised! I wonder what secrets she was hiding😮

[@jtwurthisk]

@@H8FUL4IM did some research on this topic years ago. Unfortunately, it's another example of 'common knowledge' not getting the whole story. Rosemary Kennedy was born mentally impaired and prone to violence and uncontrollable rages. Joe Kennedy followed advice from doctors of the time that the only way to help Rosemary was a lobotomy.

[@Liepreachan]

My uncle worked for him in 50s. 7 years in Walpole!!! Got paid well for the time. He told me mob did JFK for Dulles and revenge. RFK too.

[@beautifullifemedia2733]

It's quite clear

[@terrymcdougal5216]

Contract went to the C.I.A. 🤔

[@terrymcdougal5216]

Guess who got the contract? 🤔

[@charlesross9260]

Not one word about Hoover.

[@capoislamort100]

Sam and his outfit had “dirt” on that evil bastard Hoover.

[@joeyjamison5772]

Hoover was too busy trying on girl's clothes at the time.

[@margaretwallaces3625]

Thank you, I really enjoyed your video. We (my siblings & I) used to stay up late Friday nights to watch The Marks Brothers.❤

[@glengrieve544]

Great content and beautifully presented thanks for showing it Australia ❤🎉❤

[@peterwall583]

Bobby kennedy "i thought on little girls giggled"says to sam

[@seanohare5488]

Bobby Kennedy the most successful mob buster as attorney general the mob was on the run when he was sg

[@manomyth11]

🤔my ex's grandfather was in the Mafia, he wanted me to be his bodyguard/bouncer for him and his bar, but my ex wouldn't let me, she told him straight out in front of everyone one Christmas when we were all at his house, anyways... he had several buddies that ended up protecting him until he died in a hideout in the Ozarks'', where I met Roy Sessions, the guitarist for George Jones.

[@karenkershaw6324]

Great video. Thank you.

[@AdamJWM]

What I took from this is how absolutely interesting history can be. This shaped our world.

[@bcasey3639]

Nasty times covered up by glamour and a naive public

[@evanpetelle5669]

And a dollar that held some value lol

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

Now we live in nasty times with no glamour and naivete on roids.

[@1972dsrai]

No different today with lobby groups. Explains why so many politicians work for decent salaries, but leave owning multiple properties and assets worth multi millions.

[@capoislamort100]

Exactly, a dumb/naive public.

[@bcasey3639]

@@1972dsrai exactly

[@johnnydawson7675]

The use of the Olympus OM10 camera as a prop for the agents is historically incorrect. It was only introduced in 1979.

[@NineInchTyrone]

For the most part the Mob killed its own

[@capoislamort100]

That’s why they lasted so long in this country; most of them go outside the “boundaries” and behave like they were in Italy, the Government would’ve finished them off!!

[@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul]

Crazy Joe Gallo was at those hearings, he wore dsrk glasses too.

[@johnnysechrist6313]

Sam would have never snitched.

[@peterwall583]

We will never know!!!

[@peterwall583]

He was killed the night before his hearing

[@menelaoskontos2553]

the CIA obviously disagreed

[@jakeguzik935]

All Sammy wanted was to know if his homeboy had his back but didn’t 😢

[@asullivan4047]

That's open to debate.

[@fatemehhassan7066]

I love Mr Hoffa my stepdad was a union member and friend of his as well. With my previous text on Giancana my uncle Johnny worked for him in Vegas.

[@smacc1323]

That was incredibly well done all around . Great authentic acting and visuals

[@williamgallucci9913]

Enjoyed the video

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you .

[@rlopez11-11]

For? 🤔

[@loupiscanis9449]

@@rlopez11-11 For , The hard work done for my entertainment and education . 🐺Loupis Canis .

[@user-bf2cv9xo7x]

Robert Kennedy was one of those guys who'd insult you if it was he and five other guys against you, but not when you and he were alone somewhere.

[@angelsgranny]

Everybody thought he was ruthless and John wasn't. In reality, it was the other way around.

[@MGB18]

@@angelsgranny: John Boy and Booby were both scumbags! They got exactly what they deserved.

[@asullivan4047]

He was a political party leader. That respected no one-!!!😉.

[@billbergendahl2911]

Many years ago I read the book 'Mafia Princess' which was written by Sam Giancana's daughter Antoinette.

[@merritjn]

Our government has learned well from the Mafia, adopted the whole operation into our system of government. They have become the new Mafia.

[@amanda1500]

Operation Underworld

[@ABCDEF-pf2nt]

Really nice documentary.

[@veryoldjohnson]

He had the right friends in the right places!!!!

[@rlopez11-11]

Who? What kind of friends? 🤔

[@tommyandrews4992]

I couldn't imagine doing 6 hours in jail let alone 50 years. I'll stay poor living in my double wide trailer in the back woods lol

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography news media still-motion coverage. Along with guest speakers enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing.-!!!😉.it's very questionable the criminal syndicate boss who killed or ordered his killings.😈.Uncle Sammy is definitely in the top 10 of diabolical street thugs whom alleviated his competition😇. One thing for certain-!!!🤔.Not an occupation for the faint of hearted-!!!😳. A lot of the heavy hitters were out of the ( 30's thru the 50's ). 😈😇😇😇😇

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

What was an informative and wonderful historical coverage (video) about mobs ( organized crimes ) sharks 🦈 swimming beneath the USA's political economics oceans ....

[@1972dsrai]

Now instead of the mafia wielding power the US has lobby groups that make a lot of people.very wealthy and its all legal.

[@goutvols103]

Another person of great insight was Judith Exner. She dated both JFK as well as Giancana and passed pillow talk between the two (2).

[@rlopez11-11]

How? Do you mean pillow fighting? Like in 80s Hollywood movies with slumber parties? My life is a homeless shelter slumber party purgatory because of pathetic cowardly war criminals worried about what irrelevant derogatory labels to muster up next. You?

[@ladcrooks275]

enjoyed this

[@EarlFaulk]

10:09 Im pretty sure that was the same guy interviewed about Chicago corruption on those old Thame mob documentaries

[@priscamolotsi]

What a fascinating documentary! Thank you so much!

[@georgecoull1883]

He was in Pittsburgh at my grandfather's shop in the 50's for sausage,cheese and bread

[@LincolnJamesHeathrowIII]

Yay

[@45Jayyyy]

Ok and

[@kelvintorrence5994]

Your granddad was a made man ,he made sandwiches ,l.o.l

[@45Jayyyy]

@@kelvintorrence5994 hahahaha

[@anneoboyle8447]

😂​@@kelvintorrence5994

[@user-zb8ky1xs9e]

His boys sat out in front of my house for days - sending the message

[@antmanv05]

Read the book, "Doublecross", by Chuck Giancanna for deep insight into Sam. He was a complicated, evil genius with more power than governments.

[@jamesgmenzel8646]

John made Bobby attorney general because of his dad. Dad wanted for John to have Bobby by his side for when things got tough

[@stephencarter7266]

That was pretty insightful. Perhaps you ought to write a book about it.

[@GaryMay-xm6vd]

@@stephencarter7266 Or at least a paper back.

[@user-oq2rx2bj4u]

6:30 rob Kennedy says to a vicious gangster , I thought only little girls giggle. WOW! Real tough guy. Kinda like the tough guys on the internet of today. He would never say it to his face.

[@PopeyeSailor-wz7ew]

Appeared to be face-to-face. 🤔 Mobsters typically walk up behind victims and shoot them in the back or from the dark or three armed men against one unarmed man. Giancana wouldn't have done it himself, he would have had someone else do it. How is that more manly than an Internet commando? Edit: @25:45 Giancana wants to poison a man's food rather than kill him face-to-face. 🤷

[@rlopez11-11]

Why?

[@roadrunner381]

Excellent job on narrating this, your voice and delivery is spot on for these types of stories Mr. Tierney, looking forward for the next one!👍

[@MrPercival01]

He sounds like Anthony Hopkins.

[@laurentsaurel1751]

Very informative,great narration. The mob ate its baby.

[@ynysvon]

A good informative documentary but I wish that the background music was not so loud.

[@chaseschneier1076]

How did Hoover approve all this FBI activity when it was well known that the mob had the goods on HIM?! Gay, cross dresser, and other immoral behaviors were hanging over his head.

[@rlopez11-11]

Who? How? Why? 🤔

[@GaryMay-xm6vd]

Edgar had a thick " black book "..................on everyone !

[@joeyjamison5772]

Hoover was too busy trying on girl's clothes at the time.

[@johnyurick8785]

Nice documentary

[@garymcdowell7655]

Nice clip

[@RobertWindedahl]

THE CRIMES COMMITED BY THE U.S. GOVT. MAKE GIANCANA LOOK LIKE A SAINT@😂😂

[@1972dsrai]

What are lobby groups if nothing but a means of legalising corruption.

[@rlopez11-11]

How so? 🧐

[@maxbuetler4064]

Why such loud background music? Crazy. Goodbye

[@jamespppyacek342]

Same here. Adiós.

[@buzby303]

Are these episodes only being released as msm air them ?

[@j.kelley1685]

I think it's incredible that people are so quick to write off the conspiracies. Both John and Bobby were assassinated lol I'm sure there's nothing there though right?

[@Spanner249]

Yeah. Bobby got killed because people were obsessed with him because of his brother John. If John hadn’t been killed in that traffic accident in Dallas who knows what would have happened? That idiot driver ran right into those bullets.

[@PopeyeSailor-wz7ew]

People want to believe in fairy tails. 🤷

[@cadillacdeville5828]

Thank-you ❤❤

[@brucesmith6007]

This film finally helps me understand cia and mafia connection.

[@amanda1500]

I just recently learned of Operation Underworld

[@denishannan1408]

Excellent

[@johnroff1941]

Very interesting

[@Sosolidcrew]

No wonder the Kennedy brothers got wacked

[@badgerpa9]

Wisconsin is so Catholic it is home to the Friday night fish fry since the 1930s at least. Whoever wrote the script the narrator read has no idea about Wisconsin being the home to the Catholic fish fry, every bar in the small towns served a Friday fish fry.

[@rickprusak9326]

Wisconsin Lutherans also had Friday fish dinners. They were called "Fish Boils" along with broiled fish Dinners. Wisconsin Catholics were NOT the only ones making Friday fish fry's or fish dinners. Catholics are NOT the only Christian religion in Wisconsin or the world. Heaven isn't populated only with Catholics. Read the Bible instead of reading Catholic hocus pocus "holy water" propaganda.

[@veltonmeade1057]

I am Baptist, and I love Catholic fish frys.

[@cynthiadrummond5684]

Albert Anatasia was the most deadly boss and this guy is considered by most in the know to be a front boss for Tony Acardo . He wasn't a boss at all.

[@bblegacy]

Sam Giancana saw the entire thing as something to be dealt with since he was one of many who were called to testify before the US Congress "United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management Racketeering Committee" in 1959. A thorn in his side - of course. People like Giancana make their fortunes and commit their crimes quietly and any kind of publicity about "alleged activities" isn't good for business. Everybody knows that any business hates any kind of "bad" publicity. But he knew it was in his best interest to do whatever he had to do in order to "keep his cool" and just let RFK do all the "your government in action" public grandstanding as well as write his own hit contract. I grew up in a relatively prosperous Mob infested small industrial city right on the US / Canadian border that is a major worldwide tourist destination and in places like that you either don't acknowledge or let on that you know what's obviously rampant exists, you don't talk about it with anybody, you punch the time clock in the factory where you work every day and pay your union dues, and you keep your nose clean by not asking questions. Given that without the Mob effort through fixed labor unions, there's a good chance that JFK would not have been elected in 1960; and then with that came RFK strike two: an even more zealous clamp-down on organized crime when RFK became Attorney General of the US, and RFK's intent to break the mob just got more intense, well into the mid-1960's. While it's not for me to decide how much of the Kennedy fortune made by RFK's father was made by way of illegal (mob) racketeering (I.E. bootlegging during the Prohibition Era), there's no doubt that if Joe Kennedy, Sr. called in a few favors around the country to help get his son Jack into the White House in 1960, then RFK's zealous idealistic prosecution of the mob had to have been a stab in the back of Giancana and others like him. As it was, of the Kennedy sons, RFK was the more idealistic than his older brothers and RFK was more of being a moral crusader than pragmatic status-quo realist. The third strike against him, was the failed Anti-Castro "Bay of Pigs" fiasco that totally exposed how deeply the Mob was in bed with the FBI and CIA and embarrassed them and the entire US government AKA the JFK Administration by it. It's not exactly ironic that JFK and RFK were taken care of, in due time of course. People like Giancana know that sometimes you just have to keep your cool and play the long game, and take care of business the old-fashioned way. Those kinds of sociopaths know that Rule #1 is keeping your cool and being quietly amused, (at least outwardly), when your opponent is making headlines by publicly belittling you, especially in the halls of the US Congress. Rule # 2 is always use guys you can trust that you also know can get the job done when it's time to pull a trigger or two and Rule # 3 is to make sure there's always a patsy that's been groomed probably unknowingly, (I.E., an Oswald) to take the fall for it. After all, what the public wants is justice; the only thing any 99.9% of courts want are people they can convict whether they're actually guilty or not.

[@rich1958]

Voter fraud? That could never happen. Lol

[@fatemehhassan7066]

I don’t not want to believe some stuff, I just don’t see him like that. I prefer to remember the man I met a few times as a young child…♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@thomasbullen5239]

What amazes me is that when you hear the two guys talking about Giancana screwing up they sound like Mobsters, the accent and all. Like in a movie.

[@walkertongdee]

Sam G lived in Oak Park a Chicago suburb on Winona St. near Jackson St one block away from my sister's house. I remember the night he got hit she said it was quiet and in the morning there were cop cars parked in front.

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

🥱

[@pooooornopigeon]

Cooking sausages and 22 slugs, a dangerous mix.

[@stddisclaimer8020]

Butch Blasi wisely equipped his weapon with a silencer.

[@roberthussey595]

His home address was 1147 Wenonah - at the corner of Fillmore Street and Wenonah - I wonder if his old home still has the Green Tile roof ??

[@amanda1500]

It always amazes me how anyone can put any of these people on a pedestal or romanticize their history. From the Kennedys, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, the CIA, the government, the mafia...they are all trash and always turn on each other. History rhymes.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

Your pedestal must reach stratospheric heights.

[@amanda1500]

@@LUIS-ox1bv I don't put people on pedastals, especially hollywood, mobsters, and government

[@thomasjordan5578]

I disagree, particularly in respect to Marilyn and Frank.

[@amanda1500]

@@thomasjordan5578 that's OK, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

[@danielhagan921]

Actually I think that you’re on to something. Exempt Marilyn and Frank. There are times, when watching mob history, that I say that I couldn’t run around w these types and they’ll never date my sister. I feel like a kid with a terrarium watching his lizards and snakes……. interesting but I’m not opening the lid on this thing. Michael Franzese counsels to never be involved with as it will destroy you family, lead to an untimely death. Young men may fancy all this, but they’ll likely step into a pile of dog shit. They’re losers but I admit fascination.

[@laurafloura3058]

The powerful men of this exclusive club showcase in present day the Roman emperors of yesteryear.

[@ambrosiomorales474]

Im so amazed to those mobb boss who live over 70 to 80 + yrs old inspite the very dangerous so violent life they been through with all that killing a very dangerous life and you still alive and calling the shot at the age of 70 to 80+ yrs old amazing

[@SomeGuyInSandy]

"Ghost voting" playing dead, and double voting... Huh, who would have thunk it?!

[@handsome-brute2666]

His afterlife review had to be interesting 🤔

[@galesams4205]

I served in the ARMY in Vietnam and fought against communisum and could not wait to leave that Hell hole. 16 of my brave brothers in arms never made it back to U.S. soil. so why in hell would i want to go back. This was all the corrupt democrats war.LBJ/ RICHARD NIXION.

[@chicagomike4587]

Nixon ended the Vietnam War...and was a Republican

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

Richard Nixon was a Republican.

[@stevepickel2106]

Thank you for being a true patriot sir

[@rlopez11-11]

Intentionally hurting anyone must be/feel horrific no matter who you are, I think.

[@jackiepowell7513]

Cant believe dealey plaza area being demolished for $$ and development. A travesty!

[@delbertgrady5288]

They had modern Olympus cameras in the 60s?!

[@bluntslt8023]

Yup, you'd be surprised how old much of current technology actually is!!

[@jafojafo5412]

I can’t remember … I can’t recall … I have no memory of that … was all he had to say…

[@mumblesbadly7708]

Peter Varia: “Sam Giancana was the most powerful criminal chief in the history of the United States.” Donald Trump: “Hold my Diet Coke.”

[@KevinSpeller-ny7gk]

Interesting story.

[@thomasoaxaca3379]

Sinatra's dear friend.

[@ernestoaviles8922]

Awesome

[@HellcatMad]

Well there will be some new info come out on this. Everything is a rich mans trick

[@bbe3034]

Yes! Everyone should watch JFK to 911 Everything’s A Rich Man’s Trick. It’s a documentary on KZbin! Bush, Sr., who was with the CIA even back then is standing on the sidewalk near where JFK was murdered!

[@helenstillman-dk7jm]

Nothin like a frontman

[@Badgersj]

Fascinating. Keep going!

[@patrickmiller1834]

Great story

[@twinstar2566]

I would believe that Nicky Scarfo was more dangerous and ruthless then Sam no?

[@dwdwone]

True. He was kind of off the rails.

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

Nicky Scarfo was a brutal thug but he was stupid. Too stupid to actually run a crime family with any competence.

[@2005wsoxfan]

The more things change.....

[@stacynels4]

The more they definitely stay the same...

[@2005wsoxfan]

@@stacynels4 Unfortunately, yes.

[@capoislamort100]

From where I’m standing,Things never actually change.