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In 1965, Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno sat on a folding aluminum chair outside a store on East 115th Street. He wore a fedora tilted over his eyes and kept a damp, half-chewed cigar between his teeth. To passersby, he was just an old man watching traffic. To the underworld, he was the gravity that held … Read more

On January 17, 1882, on Allen Street in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday stood in the middle of the road with their hands on their revolvers. Ringo had been drinking for days. Holliday was sick and furious. Three months earlier, three cowboys had died in thirty seconds at the O.K. Corral. Neither … Read more

The Gambino name once carried enough weight to make FBI agents cancel vacation days and judges request extra security. At its peak, the Gambino crime family was the most powerful organized crime organization in American history. So what happened to the children? What happened to the grandchildren? What happened to the blood? To understand where … Read more

In February 1945, the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union met at Yalta in Crimea to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. One key point of their meeting was that after the war, Nazi leaders would be found and prosecuted. In November 1945, a tribunal of American, … Read more