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Sep 13, 2023

Paris T.V. Figures Gets U.S. Prison Term for Heroin Smuggling

Sept. 13, 1963 - A Paris television figure was sentenced in Brooklyn today to 3 to 6 years in prison for smuggling into this country 24...

Sep 12, 2023

Two Ex-Convicts Sentenced to Death in Los Angeles

Sept. 12, 1963 - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury of nine men and three women voted the death penalty today for the two ex-convicts...

Sep 11, 2023

Nevada Gaming Commission Hits Sinatra-Giancana Connection

Sept. 11, 1963 - The Nevada Gaming Control Board issued a complaint today against Frank Sinatra (picured with his son, Frank Jr.),...

Sep 4, 2023

Two Ex-Convicts Found Guilty of Murdering L.A. Policeman

Sept. 4, 1963 - Two ex-convicts accused of killing a Los Angeles policeman in a remote Kern County onion field were found guilty of...

Aug 31, 2023

Sinatra’s Vegas Club Under Investigation for Mob Ties

Aug. 31, 1963 - Frank Sinatra’s Cal-Neva Lodge on the north shore of Lake Tahoe is threatened with closure pending investigation of...

Aug 31, 2023

Caution on Upper East Side after Slayings

Aug. 31, 1963 - On Manhattan’s East Side today, doors were opened more cautiously, locks were added, doormen seemed more alert, and some...

Aug 30, 2023

NYPD: No Leads in Career Girl Slayings

Aug. 30, 1963 - New York Chief of Detectives Lawrence McKearney admitted today the police had no leads to the identity of the knife...

Aug 28, 2023

Two Young Career Girls Viciously Murdered in Manhattan

Aug. 28, 1963 - Two young women, one the daughter of a writer and the other of a prominent surgeon, were found stabbed to death today in...

Aug 24, 2023

Man Incarcerated in 1899 Still Behind Bars

Aug. 24, 1963 - Richard Honeck, 84 years old, has been in prison longer than many men expect to live. Honeck (left in 1899 and right this...

Aug 19, 2023

Thomas (Three-Finger Brown) Lucchese Visits Nassau D.A.

Aug. 19, 1963 - Thomas (Three-Finger Brown) Lucchese (pictured appearing before the Senate Labor Rackets committee in 1958), reportedly...

Aug 16, 2023

Execution at Sing Sing

Aug. 16, 1963 - Eddie Lee Mays, 34, was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing last night for the 1961 Harlem holdup murder of a bar...

Aug 14, 2023

Retired NYPD Detective Chief: Gallos Losing War with Profaci Gang

Aug. 14, 1963 - Raymond V. Martin, retired chief of detectives in Brooklyn South, the heart of that borough’s Cosa Nostra crime...

Aug 13, 2023

Valachi Closely Guarded in New Jersey

Aug. 13, 1963 - The United States Army is guarding Mafia canary Joe Valachi behind barbed wire at Fort Monmouth, N.J. The mobster who...

Aug 9, 2023

Gallo-Profaci War Continues in Brooklyn

Aug. 9, 1963 - The five-year underworld war between the Gallo and Profaci gangs of Brooklyn reached a new peak of violence today with the...

Aug 6, 2023

$100,000 Bounty on Valachi's Head

Aug. 6, 1963 - The underworld has set a $100,000 bounty on the head of Joseph Valachi. The reason: he talked. “If we let Valachi out on...

Aug 4, 2023

Underworld Figure Providing Feds with Critical Information on “Cosa Nostra”

Aug. 4, 1963 - Somewhere in a secret hideout today, FBI agents are guarding an underworld figure who has given the Justice Department the...

Jul 18, 2023

U.S. Crime Rate Soars

July 18, 1963 - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said today the crime rate in this country is outstripping the population growth by almost...

Jul 16, 2023

Federal Judge to FBI: Stop Harassing Giancana

July 16, 1963 - A federal judge today ordered the FBI to scale back its intensive shadowing of Sam Giancana (pictured in 1959), Chicago’s...

Jul 12, 2023

“Tony Pro” Sentenced to 7 Years in Jail

July 12, 1963 - New Jersey Teamsters’ Union boss Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano (pictured), 46, was sentenced to 7 years in jail and fined...

Jul 6, 2023

Berserk N.J. Factory Worker Surrenders

July 6, 1963 - A 36-year-old fugitive surrendered without a struggle in Newark early today, 10 hours after he had killed 2 persons,...