LUCKY LUCIANO Ep. 2 | “Castellammarese War”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

After Arnold Rothstein’s murder, Charles Luciano works full time for a Sicilian gangster named Joe “the Boss” Masseria and quickly becomes Masseria’s top lieutenant. Masseria begins to feud with a rival Sicilian, Salvatore Maranzano. By the start of the 1930s, the feud escalates into the mafia’s bloodiest conflict yet, The Castellammarese War. As bodies pile up, Luciano decides he needs to take matters into his own hands. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.3	At the turn of the 20th century, the United States experienced a massive wave of European immigration.
0:55.7	For nearly 40 years, people from Eastern Europe, Ireland, Italy, and Sicily braved the rough Atlantic Ocean in the hope of finding a better life. Among those who gazed at the Statue of Liberty as he steamed past was a boy named Salvatore
1:02.1	Lucanilla, better known today as Charles Lucky Luciano. As a teenager, Luciano realized success in life would come from the streets, not from a traditional
1:13.4	education. He joined various gangs and became friends with up-and-coming criminal legends
1:18.9	like Meyer Lansky, Al Capone, Bugsie Siegel, Vito Genevese, and Frank Costello. Their crimes
1:26.7	started small, like petty theft and illegal gambling,
1:30.3	but when Prohibition came along, they graduated to bootlegging. Luciano made millions. He did it because
1:37.1	he was ruthless and because he was mentored by one of the kings of Prohibition, Arnold Rothstein.
1:44.0	Rothstein taught Luciano how to become the consummate
1:47.2	gangster. He taught him how to treat it like a legitimate business and how to stay out of the
1:52.2	limelight. Luciano absorbed the lessons as he climbed the ranks of the underworld. After Rothstein
1:59.0	was murdered in 1928, Luciano tied himself more tightly to a man
2:04.0	he had worked for for years, the man who controlled East Harlem, Joe the boss Mazaria.
2:11.0	Unfortunately for Luciano, that was right before the boss found himself embroiled in a war
2:16.2	that had its origins in the old country.
2:22.3	On the island of Sicily, in the 1200s, loose clans began to form as a means of protection
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