S1 Ep1: Sam Giancana (Part 1)
Mafia
Audioboom Studios
4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Mafia, a look into America’s criminal underworld. In the debut episode, Fleet Cooper tells the story of one of the most powerful, flamboyant and dangerous mafia bosses of all time, Sam Giancana.
Sam Giancana was utterly ruthless and willing to do anything in his pursuit of power. But unlike most mobsters, he didn’t live his life in the shadows. He had a beautiful showbiz girlfriend. He was even pals with singer Frank Sinatra. Sam Giancana’s influence reached the highest echelons of American politics from helping John F. Kennedy to defeat Richard Nixon in the 1960 Presidential election to assisting in the CIA’s darkest operations in Cuba. Under his reign, the mob and politics were combined with deadly results. This episode is sponsored by Blue Apron and Empty Frames.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Mafia, and in this audio boom original podcast series |
| 0:04.1 | we explore America's criminal underworld to reveal the lives and careers of its greatest gangsters. |
| 0:10.5 | The series has been extensively researched and produced in consultation with experts, authors, and those who are actually there. |
| 0:18.3 | In our first episode, Fleet Cooper tells the story of one of the most powerful, flamboyant, and dangerous Mafia bosses of all time, |
| 0:25.5 | Sam Giacana. |
| 0:27.4 | He'd killed a lot of people, had a lot of people killed. |
| 0:30.3 | He was a very personable guy, and he would go out of his way to help people when he could, |
| 0:36.8 | but you didn't cross him. |
| 0:38.5 | If you crossed him, you were in deep trouble. |
| 0:41.9 | Sam Giacana was utterly ruthless, willing to do anything in his pursuit of power. |
| 0:47.3 | Sam Giacana was the most powerful criminal chief in the history of the United States, and forget about Al Capone. |
| 0:54.0 | I say he was far more powerful than Al Capone, and he was a giant. |
| 0:57.8 | Maybe the most powerful criminal chief in the history of the United States. |
| 1:02.0 | But unlike most mobsters, he didn't live his life in the shadows. |
| 1:06.4 | He had a beautiful showbiz girlfriend. |
| 1:08.6 | He was pal with Frank Sinatra. |
| 1:10.9 | Sam Giacana didn't like the keeper of the flow profile. |
| 1:13.7 | He liked the big life. |
| 1:15.5 | He liked to be seen with the stars and things like that. |
| 1:19.4 | His influence reached the highest echelons of American politics. |
| 1:23.5 | Helping to get John F. Kennedy elected to president, |
| 1:26.7 | and assisting in the CIA's darkest operations. |
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