The Night of the Sicilian Vespers Fact or Myth?

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Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Intelligence detective Gary Jenkins looks closely at the week after Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky murdered the last of the old-school Mob guys, Salvatore Marazano. For many years, several books by respected authors repeated a story that as many as 60 old-school Black Handers were murdered across the United States. The accepted theory was that Luciano cleared the decks all over the United States to make space for the new young mafioso and the National Crime Syndicate. Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwireClick here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	Well, hey guys, a little bonus episode here I've got.
0:03.2	You know, when I first got into reading about the mob and I'm talking about back in my early 20s, maybe late teens, I was really fascinated by this story, the night of the Sicilian Vespers.
0:16.0	I read a book about, you know, these early days of the mob.
0:19.5	I don't remember the book.
0:20.6	There's one Murder Incorporated, these early days of the mob. I don't remember the book. There's one
0:21.2	Murder Incorporated, which I think that was after that. It was even earlier than that. It may
0:27.4	have been Peter Moss's story about Joe Volachi and might even been before that. Anyhow,
0:32.6	I read a book about the founding of the mob and talking about the night of the Sicilian Vespers.
0:38.7	How this was the, this was the night after that Luciano had Merlansky and Bugsy Siegel and a couple of
0:47.7	his guys kill Salvatore Maranzano, who had declared that he was the bosses, the boss of bosses or the Capo de Tudy Cappi.
0:56.5	And if you think about that word capo must be singular boss, and Cappi, CAPI, must be bosses.
1:04.0	So Capo de Tudy Cappy.
1:06.7	Anyhow, they, they murdered him September the 10th, 1931, and that was what they called the Americanization of the mafia.
1:15.3	Now, you know, over the years I've become curious, and supposedly, if I don't remember how many people they said that night,
1:22.2	there have been a variety of different people or books who have reported.
1:26.4	One book said there was 40 people killed all over the
1:29.1	United States another book I think said 80 or 60 any other lot of people killed in all over the
1:34.2	United States St. Valentine's Day Massacre was a big deal it wasn't that night it wasn't
1:39.8	that day and there were only seven people killed there so So if there were 40 to 60 people in the
1:45.1	mafia killed, even spread out across the United States, there would have been headlines
1:50.2	in every major city in the United States. A little history on this. Lucky Luciano had killed
1:56.1	Joe the boss, Maseria, for Maranzano. They were like the two old mustache peas that were competing to take over and be the boss of bosses.
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