Mafia Kingfish

Mafia Kingfish

Author: John H. Davis

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Story of the Mafia leader who the author believes was involved in the assassination of President Kennedy and other crimes and scandals in addition to running an organized crime empire in Louisiana.


Carlos Marcello

Carlos Marcello

Author: Stefano Vaccara

Publisher: Enigma Books

Published: 2013-11-15

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1936274698

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Like getting a pebble out my shoe." New Orleans is the true birthplace of the Sicilian mafia in America. Carlos Marcello controlled organized crime in Louisiana and across the Southeast in the 1950s and '60s. He was untouchable until he met the Kennedy Brothers. Once Robert Kennedy became attorney general, Marcello was deported to Guatemala and swore to seek revenge. It became a duel to the death. Marcello found his "patsy," a former marine with a Russian wife. Lee Harvey Oswald was the perfect fall guy but he never pulled the trigger.


A Rose by Many Other Names

A Rose by Many Other Names

Author: Todd Elliott

Publisher: Trine Day

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 193758464X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Shifting the focus away from the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, to 48 hours prior in Eunice, Louisiana, this book explores the prediction made by Melba Marcades, aka Rose Cherami, that the president would be assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas. Discounting clairvoyance, the book investigates the possibility that Rose had inside information about the assassination. However, Rose Cherami was not a credible witness: she was a prostitute, a one-time performer in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club, an admitted drug trafficker, a drug addict, and a car thief. But the author’s research reveals glaring omissions in her FBI files, questionable admissions regarding her criminal history, and the dubious details of her untimely demise. This book sheds new light on a relatively unknown footnote of the JFK conspiracy theory.


The Kennedy Contract

The Kennedy Contract

Author: John H. Davis

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Was the assassination of president Kennedy the result of a conspiracy between Jimmy Hoffa and Mafia associates Santos Trafficante and Carlos Marcello? The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedys and Mafia Dynasty now breaks the shocking story behind the allegations of the attorney for Hoffa and Trafficante. Photo insert.


Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti

Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti

Author: Gene Mustain

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002-07-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1440695806

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

He was a little-known wiseguy out of Howard Beach, Queens, who blasted his way into the public eye with the assassination of Gambino Family boss Paul Castellano in December 1985, a rubout that’s the stuff of Mafia legend. Ruthless, cunning, and tougher than the streets that produced him, John Gotti seized control of the nation’s most powerful crime family, beat the law on rap after rap, and became an American legend. First published in 1988 and fully revised and updated for this edition, Mob Star traced John Gotti’s spectacular rise and eventual downfall after the betrayal of his closest ally, Salvatore “Sammy Bull” Gravano. At his death, ten years after he was jailed for life and four years after he began battling cancer, John Gotti was still the biggest name in today’s Mafia.


Mob Lawyer

Mob Lawyer

Author: Frank Ragano

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ragano worked as a lawyer for various mob bosses for thirty years.


Mafia Dynasty

Mafia Dynasty

Author: John H. Davis

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1994-05-11

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 0061091847

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Gambinos--they arrived in America from Sicily when the `20's roared with bootleg liquor. For thirty years they fought a bloody battle for control of New York's underworld to emerge as the nation's richest and most powerful crime family. Now Mafia expert John H. Davis tells their compelling inside story. Here are the chilling details and deceptions that created a vast criminal empire. Here are six decades of the uncontrolled greed and lust for power of such men as Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, Carlo Gambino, Paul Castellano, and John Gotti--men for whom murder and betrayal were business as usual. From the Gambinos' powerful stranglehold on New York's construction, garment, and waterfront industries to the government's onslaught against them in the `80s and `90s, Mafia Dynasty takes you into the mysterious world of blood oaths, shifting alliances, and deadly feuds that will hold you riveted from the first page to the last.


The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination

The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination

Author: Lamar Waldron

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2013-10-21

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1619022613

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

November 22, 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the tragedy that has haunted America ever since. For the first time, this concise and compelling book pierces the veil of secrecy to fully document the small, tightly–held conspiracy that killed President John F. Kennedy. It explains why he was murdered, and how it was done in a way that forced many records to remain secret for almost fifty years. The Hidden History of JFK's Assassination draws on exclusive interviews with more than two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, in addition to former FBI, Secret Service, military intelligence, and Congressional personnel, who provided critical first–hand information. The book also uses government files—including the detailed FBI confession of notorious Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello—to simply and clearly reveal exactly who killed JFK. Using information never published before, the book uses Marcello's own words to his closest associates to describe the plot. His confession is also backed up by a wealth of independent documentation. This book builds on the work of the last Congressional committee to investigate JFK's murder, which concluded that JFK ‘was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy," and that godfathers ["Santo] Trafficante [and Carlos] Marcello had the motive, means, and opportunity to assassinate President Kennedy." However, it also draws on exclusive files and information not available to Congress, that have only emerged in recent years, to fully explain for the first time how Marcello and Trafficante committed—and got away with—the crime of the 20th century. Some of the book's revelations will be dramatized in the upcoming Warner Brothers film Legacy of Secrecy, produced by and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, which also stars Robert De Niro as Carlos Marcello. The Hidden History of JFK's Assassination is the definitive account of the crime and the secrecy which has surrounded it.


The Cornbread Mafia

The Cornbread Mafia

Author: James Higdon

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1493038508

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread Mafia. Author James Higdon—whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the Obama administration—takes readers back to the 1970s and ’80s and the clash between federal and local law enforcement and a band of Kentucky farmers with moonshine and pride in their bloodlines. By 1989 the task force assigned to take down men like Johnny Boone had arrested sixty-nine men and one woman from busts on twenty-nine farms in ten states, and seized two hundred tons of pot. Of the seventy individuals arrested, zero talked. How it all went down is a tale of Mafia-style storylines emanating from the Bluegrass State, and populated by Vietnam veterans and weed-loving characters caught up in Tarantino-level violence and heart-breaking altruism. Accompanied by a soundtrack of rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues, this work of dogged investigative journalism and history is told by Higdon in action-packed, colorful and riveting detail.


Bones on the Beach

Bones on the Beach

Author: Peter Davidson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-06-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1101188081

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The true story of an undercover cop who went under the covers with a wiseguy. She was a married organized crime detective. He was the Mafia wiseguy she was trailing. Their affair would shake the very foundation of Miami's criminal underworld-and end in murder.