🚨Frank Sinatra Jr. Released Unharmed
Dec. 11, 1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr., kidnapped Sunday night at a Lake Tahoe gambling casino, was released unharmed about 3 a.m. today after...
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Dec 10, 2023
Break May Be Near in Sinatra Kidnapping Case
Dec. 10, 1963 - Frank Sinatra Sr. made a surprise flight to Los Angeles from Reno tonight and plunged into a frenzy of activity as...
Dec 10, 2023
Brooklyn Authorities Arrest Gallo Criminal Gang
Dec. 10, 1963 - Brooklyn authorities sought today to end the bloody Gallo-Profaci Mafia war by arresting and arraigning one of the...
Dec 10, 2023
Two Prominent California Attorneys To Defend Jack Ruby
Dec. 10, 1963 - Two prominent California attorneys, Melvin Belli of San Francisco (pictured) and Sam Brody of Los Angeles, said today...
Dec 10, 2023
Search for Frank Sinatra Jr. Continues
Dec. 10, 1963 - Agents of the FBI and sheriff’s squads pressed a search in the snow-covered mountains around Lake Tahoe last night for...
Dec 9, 2023
FBI “Risk List” Did Not Include Oswald
Dec. 9, 1963 - The FBI gave the Secret Service a “risk list” of Dallas individuals in advance of President Kennedy’s fatal trip, but the...
Dec 9, 2023
🚨Frank Sinatra Jr. Kidnapped
Dec. 9, 1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr., 19-year-old son of the famed entertainer, was kidnapped at gunpoint from his Nevada motel last night...
Dec 6, 2023
GOP Congressmen Reject Collective Blame for JFK Assassination
Dec. 6, 1963 - Congressional Republicans deplored today what they called attempts to blame “hatred” in this country for the assassination...
Dec 6, 2023
Oswald’s Widow Wishes to Remain in U.S.
Dec. 6, 1963 - The Russian-born widow of Lee Harvey Oswald was quoted today as saying she “wants to be an American and continue to live...
Dec 6, 2023
Dallas Police: Oswald Tried to Assassinate Edwin Walker
Dec. 6, 1963 - A rifle shot that narrowly missed former Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker, an angry critic of President Kennedy, in his Dallas home...
Dec 3, 2023
Hunt Continues for Actress’s Strangler
Dec. 3, 1963 - Sheriff’s detectives said last night that the lives of slain actress Karyn Kupcinet and her boyfriend, TV actor Andrew...
Dec 2, 2023
More Information on Lee Harvey Oswald
Dec. 2, 1963 - A good deal of information has now come to light indicating that Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin of President...
Dec 1, 2023
Actress Strangled in Hollywood
Dec. 1, 1963 - A strangler killed Karyn Kupcinet, 22-year-old actress, a surgeon reported after an autopsy today. Her nude body was found...
Dec 1, 2023
Oswald Described by Acquaintances as Anti-Social
Dec. 1, 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald was a “loner” who did not have friends in the Marines, a Milwaukee man who served with him said today....
Nov 23, 2023
New Strangling Victim in Boston Area
Nov. 24, 1963 - Joann Marie Graff, a 22-year-old industrial designer who recently came to Lawrence, Mass., from Chicago, was found dead...
Oct 16, 2023
Valachi Testifies Before Queens Grand Jury
Oct. 16, 1963 - Protected by dozens of federal marshal and cops toting submachine guns, shotguns, rifles, and binoculars, Joseph Valachi,...
Oct 9, 2023
Valachi Airs More of Mob’s Dirty Laundry
Oct. 9, 1963 - Underworld songbird Joseph Valachi today told Senate racket probers how he recruited three killers and then fingered...
Oct 3, 2023
Some Italian-Americans Resent Spotlight on Valachi
Oct. 3, 1963 - Italian-Americans in New York expressed resentment today over the national spotlight that is being given the story of...
Oct 2, 2023
Valachi Continues to Sing
Oct. 2, 1963 - The Cosa Nostra stopped accepting new members in 1958, Joseph Valachi (pictured right today speaking to counsel) told...
Oct 1, 2023
Cosa Nostra Songbird Valachi Exposes Mob Secrets
Oct. 1, 1963 - Joseph Valachi calmly recited today the bloody history of a war for control of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. From this...
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