Meyer's step-son (Gussaroff) told me stories of growing up in NY and how Uncle Meyer had his knuckles hammered as a lesson for taking too much off the top of his daily runs. An effective lesson from the appearance of his hands.
@James-n2t4w2 ай бұрын
Yeah. He had his knuckles smashed to grit and dust with a hammer BUT, decades later, he could still use his hands, rather than them swinging by his sides, at the end of his arms like joints of meat, with the pulverised bits of his hammered bones looking like the arthritic talons of a giant albatross, poking from the slabs of meat that were left of his hands. I recall that Lansky lacked the power to save his wives son from being killed over a relatively minor unpaid debt. The idea that old man Meyer, in Miami around 1981, secretly had a $300M criminal fortune hidden away was obviously a media fiction.
@rudyqualls752 ай бұрын
@@James-n2t4w you know much more than I do about all this part of history. I would like to add credibility to Richard's stories about Uncle Meyer. Did you ever know this name or involvement?
@Ira888814 ай бұрын
This was fantastic. Really summed up the guy’s life. As a kid in Brooklyn (I’m 67 now), my Italian buddies…and I had a lot of them…would give a wink-wink and kind of brag about how tough the Italian mafia was. As a Jew, I would always bring up Lansky being the SMART one. (As it turns out, many early Jewish gangsters WERE brutal, including Murder Incorporated, who La Cosa Nostra often hired to do hits.) Little did I know about the final chapter in Lansky’s life, the myth being much bigger than the reality, until I watched this just now!
@waldircosta909828 күн бұрын
Ele era muito esperto viu
@happydayz785722 күн бұрын
It’s fascinating to follow the lives of people who truly forged a path in the still Wild West. And I mean the western world. In many ways it was still the Wild West because laws weren’t established yet to prevent them, and so many could be paid off.
@joninpgh3 ай бұрын
I have the Lansky biography "Little Man". One fascinating part is about the fact that he knew that an honest casino with good food would make more money than a crooked one because people would keep coming back.
@James-n2t4w2 ай бұрын
LITTLE MAN, 1991, is a good, solid biography. It takes some criticism because the author, Robert Lacey, has written several biographies about royals, presidents, CEO's. It's a much better biography than MEYER LANSKY: MOGUL OF THE MOB. 1979, by Eisenberg, Landau & Dan - which is mostly fiction (and I believe it was inspired by the fake [but very lucrative] _autobiography_ of Lucky Luciano, titled "THE LAST TEMPTATION OF LUCKY LUCIANO. I own a copy but I'd never recommend anyone to buy a copy. It's been totally debunked as fake since just months after it was first published. WE ONLY KILL EACH OTHER: THE LIFE AND BAD TIMES OF BUGSY SIEGEL, 1967 [?] Dean Jennings is a really fantastic true crime, non-fiction book. It's only about 250 pages, I read every word in about 6 hours, then immediately started reading it from the very beginning, again.
@seansimms6693Ай бұрын
I read it while in all places, the joint.
@UlisesZapatacierra-qi2jdАй бұрын
Exelente
@john-draftanimal4 ай бұрын
That was fantastic. Thank you for rehabing this old show
@philipjubileo.omonoji81514 ай бұрын
I love how you did the documentary. I didn’t see you pressing a viewpoint, just stated the facts and really gave a well balanced view (leaving the viewers to make whatever conclusions they deem fit). We don’t see stuffs like this enough lately hence I soundly commend you. Nice work! Splendid!!
@SHOOTDASHIT13 ай бұрын
same recycled sht
@pedenmk5 ай бұрын
They the government couldn't leave him alone. Great presentation thanks for sharing.
@Thousandpointsoflight3 ай бұрын
He's not Italian He's...😮
@Thousandpointsoflight3 ай бұрын
38:45 don't they always
@judithcampbell17055 ай бұрын
Meyer retired in Miami Beach Florida. I know this for a fact. He used to bring my mother gifts at Christmas and other holidays. He was a gentleman. Everyone respected him. 💯. Thank you 💛 for this excellent documentary about him. He was really close friends with Lucky Luciano.
@asullivan40474 ай бұрын
The kindly gentleman was just a front to fool people He was a diabolically evil criminal street thug😈. Clawing his way up the syndicate crime ladder. At everyone else's expense-!!! Also nonchalantly involved with the narcotics trade ( heroin ). Murder incorporated & other criminal syndicate activities. A genuine master mind @ book keeping & defrauding the government out of tax money.
@sinatra2224 ай бұрын
He wasn't a gentleman. He was a murderer and a thief.
@laserprop4 ай бұрын
@@sinatra222 EXACTLY!!!
@Ira888814 ай бұрын
@@sinatra222 How was he a thief?
@brian31744 ай бұрын
@@Ira88881 that's someone who skims casinos and run with own gang as kid AND STOLE AND EXTORTED FROM SHOPS PUBS ROLL DRUNKS TAKE VALUABLES AND RUN LOL HOW WAS HE A THIEF A GANGSTER CAN I ASK AGE WHERE YOU FROM
@joshkeeling13825 ай бұрын
What a great documentary!
@transitbreeze5 ай бұрын
They ripped it off someone else’s channel.
@Артём-б3ъ1ц5 ай бұрын
😮😮😮
@joshkeeling13825 ай бұрын
@@transitbreeze oh, well whoever made it, it was brilliant
@transitbreeze5 ай бұрын
@@joshkeeling1382 it’s stolen from biography channel.
@NormanKatopodcast5 ай бұрын
@@transitbreeze mafias greatest hits is on numerous channels not only one
@karengarrison36665 ай бұрын
Enjoyed it, worth the watch!
@GeorgiaJones-g4e3 ай бұрын
Enjoyed. GJ
@bms91444 ай бұрын
KZbin sucks. I can watch this on television without every fake violence scene being pixelated. Or over on Rumble. Not everyone is 5 years old. Off to a platform where I can see the documentary.
@odjiramirez85Ай бұрын
Oui c'est vrai ça, c'est quoi ce niveau de censure complètement absurde et stupide 🤨? Ça n'a aucun sens de flouter pixeliser certains passages ??! N'importe quoi..
@ChicagoDefenseАй бұрын
You’ll be back
@P-G-774 ай бұрын
Grandi video, complimenti, grandi storie veramente ben descritte. Certo dire che il gioco d'azzardo, che veniva gestito, da lui, era sempre "pulito" mi pare una esagerazione, non trasformava l'acqua in whiskey, neanche lui. Di certo non ne modifica la personalità.
@waterkaren36365 ай бұрын
why censor the black white gun scenes? KZbin censorship sux
@luke-e2e6y4 ай бұрын
DAMN GOOD QUESTION.DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE TO DO THAT
@robwray78423 ай бұрын
One must agree!🤔 WHY WHY WHY??🧐🧐
@JM-lo9xk4 ай бұрын
He was a good/bad guy. ❤ RIP Meyer Lansky
@bigmike24642 ай бұрын
Meyer would not order the killing of his freind, but, I do not think he would have stopped it, since Bugsy had messed up many times and Meyer had saved him MANY times
@lainefrajberg9552 ай бұрын
Given that the real mob bosses,who had provided Siegal with the capital to build the Flamingo,wanted him dead,there was no way Lansky could have saved him.
@benitodee32745 ай бұрын
Finally! Been waiting for this one!
@KageNoTora744 ай бұрын
Prohibition was a ban on the production and distribution of alcohol, not possession or consumption.
@asensibleyoungman29784 ай бұрын
Same thing really. Without one you can't have the other.
@javoncrosstv4 ай бұрын
@@asensibleyoungman2978 exactly !
@Daniel-Cruz3 ай бұрын
@asensibleyoungman2978 yes it is. If you had it before the Volstead Act, had a prescription, or a certain pass from the government, you could possess or consume it.
@lawrencehansen87313 ай бұрын
Not really. depended on who you paid off
@dennisbedard98502 ай бұрын
@@lawrencehansen8731 Good point. The more things change, the more they remain the same
@D_e_n_i_s_e_B5 ай бұрын
This series is SO good! Thank you
@stephenedgecock4 ай бұрын
No mention of Arnold Rothstein? He taught Lansky and Luciano everything they knew.
@willberb11064 ай бұрын
He mentions it in the Costello episode. Maybe he just doesn't want to be repetitive.
@TerrellPayne-my1jm3 ай бұрын
Jew thugs 🤷🏾♂️
@ashotofmercuryАй бұрын
There's a whole episode about Rothstein on this same channel. 👍🏻
@JimmyKnight-m4g9 сағат бұрын
Makes sense , because Costello was his first Sicilian protege.
@007JNR2 ай бұрын
Crazy how we celebrate certain criminals in todays culture yet condemn everyday criminals who kill and sell illicit narcotics etc.
@KeWhite-u2j2 ай бұрын
Same way you celebrate the military and your country
@stuartjohnson56862 ай бұрын
@@KeWhite-u2j "People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" -- Richard Grenier, Washington Times 1993 (he attributed the concept to George Orwell but did not claim it was a direct quote) “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ― G.K. Chesterton
@AdamsOlympia2 ай бұрын
@@KeWhite-u2j Are you using "you" in a colloquial sense? Or are you just straw manning the holy FK out of OP?
@perilouspalms2497Ай бұрын
He was using the same rhetorical device you did in your question: isn't it crazy how WE..' btw we all think you are a spastic
@MS2K512Ай бұрын
Cause of the color.
@jerlewis42913 ай бұрын
My grandparents lived right next to Lanky family My dad and Meyer grew up together. They were friends for life. Meyer's sister began to date my dad. Meyer offered to pay, but my dad thought we were going to be in a war, he was in the Navy reserve. After the war Meyer and him stayed in touch and would go out for lunch. My dad went to his funeral and said Kaddish for him.
@chrisfusco11083 ай бұрын
There needs to be a movie about Lansky and Lucky.
@That90sShow3 ай бұрын
Gotta protect the image of joos
@charlessmith78672 ай бұрын
Boardwalk Empire...try watching that if u haven't already
@giveme_102 ай бұрын
There is a couple of films about them or including them..sadly the biography ones of Lansky aren't that good. A real good one is Bugsy, which focuses more on Ben Siegel, but Lansky and Luciano play a big role in his life story. Also, Mobsters (1991) shows their rise to power. And then there are two Lansky movies, one w Richard Dreyfus and one with Harvey Keitel. Sadly, they both aren't great. Luciano has an Italian film made about him from 73.
@NormanKatopodcast5 ай бұрын
Colin Tierney makes these docs so much better to watch
@charlesgithiri00175 ай бұрын
Couldn't agree more , you're right.
@johnsradios4844 ай бұрын
Well he stayed out of jail or avoided get shot he’s whole life. That’s a really good thing for a mobster.
@GeeBree2 ай бұрын
They really had an agenda with this documentary. I am buying it!!
@peterreston64784 ай бұрын
A truly excellent documentary excellently narrated by Dr. Hannibal Lector. It's nice to hear the truth once in a while. I can't imagine Sir Anthony lending his voice to anything less than less than something excellent. Is it really possible that Jack and Bobby didn't know where the family money came from?
@maureenobrien48073 ай бұрын
No.
@ashotofmercuryАй бұрын
Erm, this wasn't narrated by Anthony Hopkins. 🤔🤷🏻♀️
@happydayz785722 күн бұрын
No it’s not Hopkins.
@KCCardCo4 ай бұрын
Meyer Lansky threatened to kill Huntington Harford if Hartford didn't sell Lansky his resort. Lansky wanted Hartford's resort on Paradise Island and Hartford was forced to sell at a huge loss.
@pauldefazio34805 ай бұрын
All the censorship is not the video makers. Fault fault, everyone is shell, shocked and scared of KZbin and there b. S censorship. KZbin is the problem here
@sheilamacdougal48744 ай бұрын
It's an election year. Silicon Valley closes rank. Next year they'll apologise.
@yannick2454 ай бұрын
KZbin or Reddit even censor the dick of Adam by Michelangelo's fresco at the Sistine Chapel, at the Vatican. Americans are more prudish than the Catholic Church. They also censor female nipples on TV. But not men's! It's the same with cursing. They "beep" over words
@andrewandres1484 ай бұрын
@@sheilamacdougal4874 Oh the Silicon Valley Shakers... They are huddled around any comment of progressive liberal disenchantment... Ready to pounce on any and all who do not comply with The Beast.....
@jerlewis42914 ай бұрын
My dad grew up with Meyer Lansky, he dated his sister for a few years. She wanted to marry him but he was going in the Navy and didn't think it would work. My dad became friends with all the guys who wound up as Murder Incorporated, which Ben Siegel also a member. Times came and went my dad stayed in touch with all those guys. So one day about 6 months before Siegel died my dad was sent out with a warning to pay attention and stop trying to be a star. The construction costs of the Flamingo were going up, lots of stuff was stolen. He said that some people think you are stealing from them too. Plus he was in the papers too much. He said, yeah that's what Meyer was hinting at last month. He said he had to get on the ball, but he didn't. They went out to dinner that night. My dad stayed a week for free and that was that.
@SeanONeill-mw4jc4 ай бұрын
Jeez... Lansky never got a break even in old age
@lawrencehansen87313 ай бұрын
He lived
@Kenny-g4r5 ай бұрын
He was under indictment at times, brought in for questioning. Pretty sure he was NOT @Appalacian. The man covered himself very well. Big difference between Greed and Ambition.
@zackali19974 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same thing!
@robertdoane-io9ldАй бұрын
Lankski was in charge, stayed hidden behind the scenes. Lucky was his best and loyal friend. Had it planned since teenagers. Lankski always wanted to be godfather, Lucky helped him achieve this. ❤❤❤
@leroyraatz56504 ай бұрын
stop blurring it out, are we children?
@Thepotatothatchokedamber4 ай бұрын
Friggin KZbin thinks we all are. I pay for this shit and they still censor it.
@fenian1234 ай бұрын
@@Thepotatothatchokedamber That was the result of a TV broadcast, not YT
@the_real_bin_chicken4 ай бұрын
@@fenian123 the broadcast wasn't blurred. it was blurred by the uploader of this video because youtube would have an issue with it. Then this channel would be in deep crap because you tube would quickly realise that this channel is basically all pirated content and would be in even worse trouble.
@treyH2394 ай бұрын
You probably are
@picnic664 ай бұрын
It's irrelevant. YT are children, and its they who ultimately have the last say in whether we see this video or not.
@leslievega80354 ай бұрын
i had no idea lansky lived until 1983.
@lindawoods76105 ай бұрын
Really good!! Thanks so much 😊
@robertwilliams5334 ай бұрын
Wonderful documentary and balanced. Well done.....🙂
@leslievega80354 ай бұрын
I looove Lansky' character in Boardwalk Empire
@richardstirling57994 ай бұрын
I've always liked Meyer - my favorite mobster
@JohnSmith-nn1yk4 ай бұрын
Imagine living in a world where truth is sacrificed incase someone's feelings might be hurt.
@patmcstuff6715 ай бұрын
They always glamorize these crims, they end up in jail, dead, or broke or hanging on
@josephkennedy82815 ай бұрын
Newsflash….everyone ends up dead
@countbooga69972 ай бұрын
Meyer ended up rich living to old age, what are you on about?
@zelkoculibrk88633 ай бұрын
Good documentary, 👍
@virgil_kane3 ай бұрын
" Our losses in Cuba were enormous . " Meyer Lansky quote
@Calvin-ks9cr5 ай бұрын
Think it's obvious he was rich and had some influence for a certain period of time but lost it all in Cuba and the passing of time. After that he was respected but had no influence.
@lainefrajberg9552 ай бұрын
All the evidence indicates that you are right. A pity the US government still believed he was Mr.Big in the mob-something he never was.
@dannywoody54974 ай бұрын
What a great documentary
@Quantum_Humanics4 ай бұрын
I didn't expect his voice to be so deep
@grouchygrundle4 ай бұрын
Smartest gangster of all time. Got italians to do his dirty work. Governememt wouldnt even look his way for the longest time.
@planetclay4 ай бұрын
yeah who needed old Meyer waving those kinky pics of J Edgar around? that's one Jewish tradition which remains strong today.....looking at Diddy's and Epstein's operations.
@victorblock34213 ай бұрын
They got together when they could benefit from each other. Just business.
@Bobbysixgun4 ай бұрын
Great video
@Channelscruf4 ай бұрын
Why are we blocking out scenes in 1930s movies that would get a ‘G’rating today? Asking for a friend.
@jaywp23433 ай бұрын
Copyright laws...
@California550Ай бұрын
hello from russia.... good movie... i was in his casino flamingo in las vegas..... when i was 8 years old we had one movie in russia .... once upon a time in america...... good movie about ben sigl and luky luciano ....
@Andy-ty6gv4 ай бұрын
He the accounting of the New York 5 crime family
@evefromstrangeohio3 ай бұрын
Clearly the ppl who put this documentary did not really do your homework. Meyer Lansky was a class act.
@stuartjohnson56862 ай бұрын
He was a criminal. No class.
@Itsalwaysme333Ай бұрын
That was later. Wayyyyy later. He was a thug and a person of the times.
@Jewdidit14Ай бұрын
He was and always will be an evil Jew. Just a Jew spoke on the wheel of the ZOG
@evefromstrangeohio27 күн бұрын
@Itsalwaysme333 everyone is entitled to their own opinion 😉
@evefromstrangeohio27 күн бұрын
If you are under 70 years old you only can form an opinion from what you have seen on TV or KZbin etc rather than the direct experience. You had to be there
@mrearlygold4 ай бұрын
ROUTH needs to be kept off the streets for many years
@alexcarter88074 ай бұрын
If ROUTH had any real military experience he'd know the well-known and beloved "police call" in which you go out and pick up every bit of trash, not just cigarette butts but pieces of cigarette butts. So any Secret Service agent is probably going to have this experience or be influenced/trained by those that do. He didn't hide his damn gun barrel! And that's a lot bigger than a cigarette butt. Bet he didn't even read any of Harry McBride's books on sniping in WWI. If you're going to be a sniper you can't half-ass it.
@HilaryMutongwizo3 ай бұрын
He was "pulling strings from the shadows " in a Billion dollar underworld empire and died without leaving a dime for his family and crippled son ?. What a sad end.
@brianpress13922 ай бұрын
@@frankmilitary4121 No Shtt, it's Always Best To Keep Your Mouth Shut about Any Money you have, Letting Anybody know You Have Money Isn't Smart, 👍🏻
@southie31774 ай бұрын
These are so dramatic 😂. Love it
@stallion663 ай бұрын
This is the business we have chosen! I DIDN’t ASK who gave the order….because it had nothing to do with business!
@codyelliott58213 ай бұрын
What a sweetheart of a man ! Product of his environment! Came from the streets fought his way out !
@perilouspalms2497Ай бұрын
Or a murderous jew who worked within a criminal organisation that murdered, tortured and extorted thousands.
@757millionaire4 ай бұрын
📌 Meyer Lansky Bugsy Siegel Lucky Luciano
@RichWeigel2 ай бұрын
I will use the line from usual suspects to describe Lansky: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist." Whether Meyer had millions when he died or not I think he was smart enough to keep his mob connections well hidden but just enough on the surface that every once in awhile the government would go fishing. This is why he was always smiling....
@rodneyricketts1772 ай бұрын
Much Love
@GTX112312 күн бұрын
I've often pondered the fantastic irony of how a man like Meyer who understood gambling better than anyone could have bet everything on Cuba. Why not invest a smaller portion of that money elsewhere into something legal and safe?
@sheilamacdougal48744 ай бұрын
Last chance: check if he knew Jack Ruby.
@mnoliberal73354 ай бұрын
Bet Lansky didn't know Ruby well, with one from Chicago and the other New York. Ruby (Jacob Rubinstein) was a small time associate of organized crime figures and no mobster or murder-for-hire killer.
@sheilamacdougal48744 ай бұрын
@@mnoliberal7335 Well the one thing we do know for certain is that he *was* a killer.
@planetclay4 ай бұрын
@@sheilamacdougal4874 and very Jewish.
@That90sShow3 ай бұрын
Jack Rubenstein
@James-n2t4w2 ай бұрын
Lansky had probably one of the five most valuable collections of Hummel figurines in North America.
@blackdogfive4 ай бұрын
thank you
@samuelmaina38055 ай бұрын
Crazy amount of censorship
@waldircosta909828 күн бұрын
Que história magnífica,viu fidel castro tomou tudo .
@UlisesZapatacierra-qi2jdАй бұрын
Un hombre súper técnico gracias a el Luciano sobrevive dentro de la mafia y viceversa dos genios
@Redmenace964 ай бұрын
Why is there no footage of his testimony at Kefauver hearings? Does it exist?
@lecoqjeannot33584 ай бұрын
Great docu, but WTF is all this blurring ...
@dogpaw7754 ай бұрын
what's been presented here; M. Lansky was a decent man v'good doco', well presented. .
@marlenedonner43 ай бұрын
This was hard for me to listen to. My grandpa was killed by Meyer Lansky because he would not pay protection medicine. They knocked out my grandpa and drove a truck over his head. My dad was jewish.
@marcgabriel50963 ай бұрын
Wait, for real??
@andrewthomas34633 ай бұрын
Wow. I wouldn’t have listened to it if I were in your shoes, he was a nobody at the end of the day
@victorblock34213 ай бұрын
An acquaintenance of mine, "J", her grandfather was involved with lansky's crew running whisky. They killed him.
@bigbadjohn820717 күн бұрын
Got an ad for a sports book while watching this. SMH
@GrannyHatesEdithe5 ай бұрын
These people are finally bold enough to speak on Meyer
@asullivan40474 ай бұрын
Bold about what-???🤔
@curlybill39664 ай бұрын
@@asullivan4047Being a criminal Jew.
@marvelmthembuvee25934 ай бұрын
Why blurring some parts
@fedup7454 ай бұрын
Because he was a bloody mess?
@ricardocantoral76723 ай бұрын
Back then, people called you Bugsy because you had bugs in your head. Simply put, you are crazy.
@drobson80045 ай бұрын
Whst exactly was being censored during Marenzanno's hit? Is this suggesting there's actual footage?
@Redmenace964 ай бұрын
Read a biography on ML. Written by that British dude, I think. His finances were very murky. His whole life was cash money, no records. In my judgement he was a man who could GET money, but he didn't HAVE a lot of money. And of course he sunk every dollar into the Riviera in Havana- and lost it. FRom 1960 to 1983 his every movement and every communication was monitored by the FBI. What could he do? I think this doc is meant to dispel some of the myths surrounding all of organized crime. They don't have power because they are rich. They have power because people fear them. Who wants to get killed over a 10 thousand dollar building contract?
@LarryDaiell663 ай бұрын
*judgment*
@c0rnsocksАй бұрын
Did he not choose that path
@felipecesar6255Ай бұрын
Faz a dublagem da biografia dos gambinos .... , documentário fantástico que tem no KZbin
@willberb11064 ай бұрын
I really like this series but I think the music could be like half the volume like really cut down in volume.
@ronaldgomez45629 күн бұрын
115 Central Park West was the residence of Frank Costello in which where he was shot. Meyer Lansky held residence at 40 Central Park South.
@Knight_of_NI3 ай бұрын
REALLY?!? Blurring out movie clips? KZbin rules are getting ridiculous 🤦🏻♂️🤯🤦🏻♂️
@grantmitchell38173 ай бұрын
Why are you blurring out RECREATIONS.
@mattsweeny39574 ай бұрын
"Michael...would you like a tuna sandwich??"
@annikkianttila4 ай бұрын
Why all the censorship , even onstuff that are just movies?
@JohnJourdan884 ай бұрын
Somehow Hollywood won’t touch this one. I wonder why?
@planetclay4 ай бұрын
too fascinated with the possibility of remaking Fiddler On The Roof.
@richardloostburg26373 ай бұрын
They made movie about him. Do some research idiot
@Damiansweldingshortz5 ай бұрын
The untouchable
@whizkid9545 ай бұрын
Once everything crashed in Havana. The government was upset and the elites wanted the money they lost! Lansky was unfortunately used by the Government until he had nothing left to give. He did good if you ask me. Lived like a king for some time, avoided doing any hard time in prison and was able to keep his mouth shut 🤫. As a mobster Lansky was a solid representation of that.
@tronmartin14 ай бұрын
Agreed. Castro seized Meyer's fortune and he never recovered from that.. He was very wise and very disciplined too. He never did hard time, like you mentioned, and he was never whacked. Usually, those are the only 2 options for a mobster. According to certain sources, he only had $35,000 dollars to his name when he died. I guess he also owned a small percentage of some casinos in Las Vegas but who knows.
@williamneumyer71473 ай бұрын
interesting documentary, but I have to point out, against what's said at 6:00, that the Eighteenth Amendment bans "the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation from the United States" of alcoholic beverages, NOT the consumption of alcohol.
@brianpress13922 ай бұрын
Meyer Lansky, Was Very Smart for That Time, These 2 Guy's Know Nothing about Meyer Lansky 👍🏻
@DWKThedogbreaths4 ай бұрын
In 50s and 60s London there was a contingent of heavy Jewish gangsters. The most successful, a man who ran soho for decades was Jack Spot (or Jack Comer, real name Jacob Comatosed allegedly) a second generation Russian Jewish immigrant. His power was waning in the late 50s after his 1930-40s heyday following the battle of Cable Street where Spot and his gang attacked Mosley and a contingent of Blackshirt fascists marching through East London's Jewish quarter. Spot personally took on Mosley's bodyguard armed with an iron bar making him a hero of the Jewish onlookers. As he aged his control was covered by other gangsters like Billy Hill who organised a small gang, led by Frankie Frazer, who set upon Spot when he and his wife left their Mayfair apartment. Spot carried the scars on his face for the rest of his life, but got the message and retired.
@clivecartey4 ай бұрын
"...as American troops poured ashore..." - anybody else !!??
@TinaJesse8593 ай бұрын
Good documentary but completely ruined by all the over production of music and cheesy editing.
@melodymakermark4 ай бұрын
Was Bugsy shot with an M1 carbine? I thought that’s what it looked like in the images here. Don’t know if anyone knows for sure.
@phann8604 ай бұрын
Certainly looked like an M1 carbine, at a range of a few yards the .30 would do the job. Probably not a detail that would be noted.
@melodymakermark4 ай бұрын
@phann860, gotcha. I just picked up a WW2 surplus M1, a Winchester no less, in fantastic condition for a military surplus. I think it’s been sitting in an armory in Africa for decades. Anyway, stoked to own it.
@johndesalvo77383 ай бұрын
From what I have read, yes, it was a 30 caliber carbine.
@s.s.69163 ай бұрын
Either show the scene or don’t
@TyroneDoberson-o7n4 ай бұрын
Lansky ! Mob Genius ! R.I.P.
@planetclay4 ай бұрын
which is different than, say, an actual genius.
@marcofacen95644 ай бұрын
"The oldest of whom, Buddy, suffered from cerebral palsy, otherwhise life was good"... Honestly??? The same applies to me, so thank you for nothing... I bet the guy had all the funds necessary to provide good care for Buddy in all forms needed.
@DominieRobinson4 ай бұрын
It appears Lansky was a fantastic Strategist !
@jdknbw20 күн бұрын
quit hiding all the good parts--we are all adults here
@odjiramirez85Ай бұрын
Meyer Lansky, je me suis jamais documenté sur son parcours ou sa personne, c'est vrai ça, il étai assez réputé pour être le pourvoyeur de sa famille, le gestionnaire de fonds notamment. C'est dumoins, ce que j'ai cru comprendre de son histoire. Sinon merci pour ce bon vieu documentaire. J'avais Canal sat avant il y a bien longtemps et des reportages de ce type passait à cette même époque où est sortie ce doc, du coup ça ne nous rajeunit pas 😊.
@Americanpie180026 күн бұрын
Even in those days the government was double standard
@eporze3 ай бұрын
Muy buen film,informa pero no acusa.Eso se llama periodismo!!!.-
@karenwallace78655 ай бұрын
ALEXANDERDORE, I BELIEVE YOU. YOU'RE NOT LYING. 😎
@BudsCartoon2 ай бұрын
39:40 - That's his dog Bruzzer. My dog @CaliforniaShark sleeps in Bruzzer's old dog bed.