1 00:00:07,470 --> 00:00:11,150 [MUSIC PLAYING 2 00:00:46,170 --> 00:00:49,540 -He was funny, he was comical, he was witty, he was smart. 3 00:00:49,540 --> 00:00:51,260 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Sam was narcissistic. 4 00:00:51,260 --> 00:00:52,360 Grandiose. 5 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:58,420 -I mean the man did have it all and yet lived with nothing. 6 00:00:58,420 --> 00:01:00,600 BONNIE GIANCANA: He really wasn't a bad guy. 7 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,320 Deep down inside he had a good heart. 8 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:06,610 ARTHUR LURIGIO: An arm of the federal government going 9 00:01:06,610 --> 00:01:09,020 to the boss of an organized crime family 10 00:01:09,020 --> 00:01:12,550 to talk about the assassination of the leader of a country 11 00:01:12,550 --> 00:01:14,300 to advance political purposes. 12 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:14,850 BONNIE GIANCANA: It was just that there 13 00:01:14,850 --> 00:01:16,690 was a certain presence about him. 14 00:01:16,690 --> 00:01:18,690 -The thing that made Sam Giancana dangerous 15 00:01:18,690 --> 00:01:21,120 was the same thing that made every member of the Chicago 16 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,910 Outfit dangerous and that is their willingness and ability 17 00:01:23,910 --> 00:01:26,340 to kill without question based on an order. 18 00:01:26,340 --> 00:01:27,910 BONNIE GIANCANA: He had a great sense of humor. 19 00:01:27,910 --> 00:01:30,020 He enjoyed people a lot. 20 00:01:30,020 --> 00:01:30,720 NARRATOR: Momo. 21 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,200 Sam Giancana. 22 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,560 The sharp-dressing guy who takes way too 23 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,880 little credit for way too much. 24 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,330 Cross him once, wake up dead. 25 00:01:39,330 --> 00:01:40,470 Just ask Kennedy. 26 00:01:44,460 --> 00:01:46,030 FRANCINE GIANCANA: [INAUDIBLE] 60's [INAUDIBLE] 27 00:01:46,030 --> 00:01:47,620 did it all happen. 28 00:01:47,620 --> 00:01:50,780 It just seems like [INAUDIBLE]. 29 00:01:50,780 --> 00:01:52,720 -The world will never know the true facts. 30 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,120 [GUNSHOT SOUND] 31 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:02,440 [MUSIC PLAYING] 32 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,340 NARRATOR: Chicago always was a one boss town. 33 00:02:05,340 --> 00:02:07,600 That's the world Sam came into. 34 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,890 Born right there, May 24, 1908. 35 00:02:10,890 --> 00:02:17,960 Guillermo Giancana, or Momo Salvatore Giancana, on June 15. 36 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,070 Depends on who you want to believe. 37 00:02:20,070 --> 00:02:23,390 Grew up in "the patch," known as the spaghetti built, 38 00:02:23,390 --> 00:02:25,580 where Italian immigrants came to recreate 39 00:02:25,580 --> 00:02:28,340 their past in broken down buildings. 40 00:02:28,340 --> 00:02:30,170 ARTHUR LURIGIO: We never referred to it as "the patch." 41 00:02:30,170 --> 00:02:32,430 We always referred to it as Taylor Street. 42 00:02:32,430 --> 00:02:35,340 I grew up in a cocoon-- maybe in this case 43 00:02:35,340 --> 00:02:37,120 we could call it cannoli. 44 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,130 I grew up in a protected neighborhood. 45 00:02:39,130 --> 00:02:41,670 It was a defended neighborhood. 46 00:02:41,670 --> 00:02:44,520 I grew up feeling very safe. 47 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,590 It's kind of like everybody knows everybody. 48 00:02:48,590 --> 00:02:50,510 People like to be where everybody knows your name, 49 00:02:50,510 --> 00:02:52,920 and that's the way it was on Taylor Street. 50 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:54,990 NARRATOR: Sam's old man was a street vendor. 51 00:02:54,990 --> 00:02:56,400 Sold fruit. 52 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:01,160 Antonio came over from Sicily about five minutes before. 53 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:05,140 Sam's mom, Antonia, died when he was two. 54 00:03:05,140 --> 00:03:06,860 Internal hemorrhaging. 55 00:03:06,860 --> 00:03:09,140 So he didn't get a whole lot of mothering 56 00:03:09,140 --> 00:03:11,850 and there was nobody keeping him off the streets. 57 00:03:11,850 --> 00:03:13,080 ARTHUR LURIGIO: So when my dad talked 58 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,650 about who took care of him when he was 59 00:03:15,650 --> 00:03:17,850 a little boy in the neighborhood, 60 00:03:17,850 --> 00:03:20,800 it wasn't the police, it wasn't social services, 61 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:21,980 it wasn't the church. 62 00:03:21,980 --> 00:03:23,830 It was the gangster. 63 00:03:23,830 --> 00:03:25,300 FRANCINE GIANCANA: His father would actually 64 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:29,980 tie him to a tree and hit him. 65 00:03:29,980 --> 00:03:34,240 So his father was very abusive. 66 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,150 Which doesn't help. 67 00:03:36,150 --> 00:03:38,820 NARRATOR: Sam's old man had a plan for him. 68 00:03:38,820 --> 00:03:41,920 It was to beat the living crap out of him every day. 69 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:43,480 It wouldn't take much. 70 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,500 Maybe Sam spilled something. 71 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:48,460 His old man would chain him to a dead oak tree in the yard 72 00:03:48,460 --> 00:03:52,920 and just flay him raw and leave him there chained to the tree 73 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:54,380 all night. 74 00:03:54,380 --> 00:03:56,860 Sam took it out on the streets of Chicago. 75 00:03:56,860 --> 00:03:59,820 [GUNSHOTS FIRING] 76 00:03:59,820 --> 00:04:01,020 BONNIE GIANCANA: I think a lot of it 77 00:04:01,020 --> 00:04:04,640 came from [INAUDIBLE] young and impoverished, poor, 78 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:05,850 that he was driven to make a better 79 00:04:05,850 --> 00:04:08,490 life for whomever he was around. 80 00:04:08,490 --> 00:04:09,350 His family. 81 00:04:09,350 --> 00:04:12,660 His future family. 82 00:04:12,660 --> 00:04:16,080 NARRATOR: Then Antonino married again and had five more kids: 83 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:21,890 Josephine, Antoinette Mary, Joe "Pepe," and Chuckie. 84 00:04:21,890 --> 00:04:24,950 Sam's dad's second wife was killed saving Sam's brother, 85 00:04:24,950 --> 00:04:27,330 Chuckie, from being hit by a car. 86 00:04:27,330 --> 00:04:30,190 By that time Sam was already into small neighborhood 87 00:04:30,190 --> 00:04:33,000 crime and boy detention centers. 88 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,300 Then, Antonio married a third time 89 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:38,030 to a relative of his late second wife. 90 00:04:38,030 --> 00:04:40,880 A woman with seven of her own kids. 91 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:42,710 BONNIE GIANCANA: When his father remarried, 92 00:04:42,710 --> 00:04:45,380 he brought in another family. 93 00:04:45,380 --> 00:04:50,140 It did create a lot of uneasy moments because of the way 94 00:04:50,140 --> 00:04:53,180 his wife would treat his brothers and sisters as opposed 95 00:04:53,180 --> 00:04:55,630 to her family that was brought in. 96 00:04:55,630 --> 00:04:57,930 -And he had to provide the food on the table 97 00:04:57,930 --> 00:05:02,260 and he had to go out and do whatever 98 00:05:02,260 --> 00:05:04,420 he had to do to get the food to put on the table. 99 00:05:04,420 --> 00:05:06,680 -Like everybody else he was a thief, 100 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,920 and then progressed to get involved in gambling. 101 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,550 [TRUMPETS BLARING] 102 00:05:11,550 --> 00:05:12,820 NARRATOR: And out there on the streets 103 00:05:12,820 --> 00:05:15,580 and in the gym mills, in the back rooms, 104 00:05:15,580 --> 00:05:18,370 and counting houses, just waiting for Sam 105 00:05:18,370 --> 00:05:21,980 to distinguish himself from the herd of every day hoods 106 00:05:21,980 --> 00:05:23,440 was the Outfit. 107 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,890 ROSS RICE: The Chicago family is called the Outfit. 108 00:05:25,890 --> 00:05:27,600 New York families are called the Mafia. 109 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,460 I can't explain why the difference, 110 00:05:29,460 --> 00:05:32,340 but those are the nomenclatures that they use. 111 00:05:32,340 --> 00:05:34,430 NARRATOR: He fell into the 42 Gang, 112 00:05:34,430 --> 00:05:37,440 a tough bunch of young, freelance enforcers. 113 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:38,900 The kind of guys who could make you 114 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:41,450 wish you hadn't done what you did. 115 00:05:41,450 --> 00:05:45,400 The gang took their name from Ali Baba and the 40 Theives. 116 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,940 [SINGING] 117 00:05:56,810 --> 00:05:58,620 -But there were 42 of them so they 118 00:05:58,620 --> 00:06:02,000 had to becomes the 42 as opposed to the 40 thieves. 119 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,830 NARRATOR: They were the most notorious guys in "the patch." 120 00:06:04,830 --> 00:06:07,060 They killed guys for money. 121 00:06:07,060 --> 00:06:09,080 This was Momo's school. 122 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:14,950 -The 42 Gang was was a recruiting tool for the Outfit. 123 00:06:14,950 --> 00:06:18,010 They'd see somebody who was outstanding with regard 124 00:06:18,010 --> 00:06:20,910 to their viciousness and their criminality 125 00:06:20,910 --> 00:06:23,260 and their trustworthiness, and they started 126 00:06:23,260 --> 00:06:25,280 grooming them for membership in the Outfit. 127 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:29,210 And in my view, Sam distinguished himself. 128 00:06:29,210 --> 00:06:32,470 ROBERT M. LOMBARDO: 42 Gang was a group of adolescents 129 00:06:32,470 --> 00:06:36,350 and young men age-- average age was 21, 130 00:06:36,350 --> 00:06:40,770 but they were as young as 13 and were probably up to 25. 131 00:06:40,770 --> 00:06:42,900 Their glory years, so to speak, in Chicago 132 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:49,320 were from 1925 to 1934, and they were a criminal gang. 133 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,130 Not a boyish street gang in the conventional sense of the word. 134 00:06:52,130 --> 00:06:54,590 The way we've come to view it later. 135 00:06:54,590 --> 00:06:57,030 But they actually were a criminal group. 136 00:06:57,030 --> 00:07:00,400 Even though they had some very young children involved, 137 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,220 they were about committing crimes. 138 00:07:02,220 --> 00:07:03,760 I mean, the young kids started out 139 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,600 with breaking into peanut machines and gumball machines 140 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,160 and stealing pennies. 141 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,560 Stealing clothes off the clothes lines and reselling them. 142 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,770 And as they get older, they would graduate to auto theft. 143 00:07:14,770 --> 00:07:16,530 Stealing auto parts. 144 00:07:16,530 --> 00:07:17,770 Armed robbery. 145 00:07:17,770 --> 00:07:20,830 The 42 Gang was involved in the two bank robberies 146 00:07:20,830 --> 00:07:22,370 that I'm aware of. 147 00:07:22,370 --> 00:07:24,800 They turned out to be a pretty bad bunch of people. 148 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,920 They actually killed four Chicago policeman in their nine 149 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,840 years-- their nine-year reign of terror, 150 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:32,460 even though there were some very young kids, 151 00:07:32,460 --> 00:07:33,900 they were very violent. 152 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:36,560 Very aggressive criminal gang. 153 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:38,420 ARTHUR LURIGIO: The 42 Gang was the minor leagues 154 00:07:38,420 --> 00:07:41,550 for the Outfit, and just like minor league baseball, 155 00:07:41,550 --> 00:07:43,210 not everybody makes it to the big leagues. 156 00:07:43,210 --> 00:07:46,510 But several members of the 42 Gang 157 00:07:46,510 --> 00:07:48,610 made it into the major leagues and some of them 158 00:07:48,610 --> 00:07:49,970 were starting players. 159 00:07:49,970 --> 00:07:51,740 MR. X: Kind of like the NCAA does 160 00:07:51,740 --> 00:07:53,360 with recruiting guys for the pros. 161 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:54,250 They go to colleges. 162 00:07:54,250 --> 00:07:56,830 Well, our college here is the wings and feet. 163 00:08:01,090 --> 00:08:03,030 ROBERT M. LOMBARDO: We had a couple different groups 164 00:08:03,030 --> 00:08:03,800 of young people. 165 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,290 One was led by Rocco Mark Antonio. 166 00:08:06,290 --> 00:08:10,660 The other one was led by Babe Ruth Callero, 167 00:08:10,660 --> 00:08:14,860 and another member of that group was in fact Sam Giancana. 168 00:08:14,860 --> 00:08:19,090 So when these seven young people got together, 169 00:08:19,090 --> 00:08:21,770 Giancana, Callero kind of adopted the younger kids 170 00:08:21,770 --> 00:08:24,980 and taught them to trade of being a delinquence. 171 00:08:24,980 --> 00:08:27,250 I think the older ones, Callero and them, 172 00:08:27,250 --> 00:08:29,040 were probably in their late teens 173 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,560 as opposed to Rocco Mark Antonio and the others 174 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:32,930 in their early teens. 175 00:08:32,930 --> 00:08:36,190 But the gang really fermented and came together as the 42 176 00:08:36,190 --> 00:08:39,550 Gang when they began hanging around Mary's Restaurant, 177 00:08:39,550 --> 00:08:42,530 and I believe it was at Taylor [INAUDIBLE] in Chicago. 178 00:08:42,530 --> 00:08:44,230 ARTHUR LURIGIO: They were an extremely vicious gang 179 00:08:44,230 --> 00:08:46,660 and when they were on the street, 180 00:08:46,660 --> 00:08:49,130 they were victimizing people in the neighborhood. 181 00:08:49,130 --> 00:08:51,410 NARRATOR: Sam's many arrests kept is dad broke. 182 00:08:51,410 --> 00:08:54,610 At 18, Sam was indicted for murder. 183 00:08:54,610 --> 00:08:56,380 He got off from lack of evidence, 184 00:08:56,380 --> 00:09:00,210 but he was becoming downright disrespectful even 185 00:09:00,210 --> 00:09:01,580 for a "patch" kid. 186 00:09:01,580 --> 00:09:06,000 -In my view, Sam Giancana was the meanest, the toughest, 187 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,840 and the smartest of the 42 Gang. 188 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,230 He had the ability-- had he been able to go through school-- 189 00:09:13,230 --> 00:09:15,550 he would've been successful, anyway. 190 00:09:15,550 --> 00:09:19,890 Because he had the ability-- he had the intelligence to do it. 191 00:09:19,890 --> 00:09:22,050 Unfortunately he chose a different way to do it. 192 00:09:22,050 --> 00:09:24,810 -He was recognized as the best driver, 193 00:09:24,810 --> 00:09:26,540 the best wheelman around Taylor Street. 194 00:09:31,770 --> 00:09:33,200 [TIRES SQUEALING] 195 00:09:36,070 --> 00:09:38,240 He drove a car better than anybody 196 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,380 and even when he was older, he could get away 197 00:09:40,380 --> 00:09:43,870 from the lockstep surveillance of the FBI in his car 198 00:09:43,870 --> 00:09:45,030 if he felt like it. 199 00:09:45,030 --> 00:09:47,700 NARRATOR: Sam liked to drag race on the city streets 200 00:09:47,700 --> 00:09:51,400 with these souped up cars around street corners on two wheels. 201 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,210 He hired out as a top-notch wheel 202 00:09:53,210 --> 00:09:55,300 man for robberies and getaways. 203 00:09:55,300 --> 00:09:58,150 His wild eyes behind the wheel and the trigger 204 00:09:58,150 --> 00:10:02,740 got him known as Mooney, meaning out of this frickin' mind nuts. 205 00:10:02,740 --> 00:10:05,040 -Far as I know from guys I worked 206 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:09,520 for-- [INAUDIBLE] in Chicago-- said 207 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:10,820 he was a little out there, so to speak. 208 00:10:10,820 --> 00:10:12,070 Crazy. 209 00:10:12,070 --> 00:10:13,870 -And a lot of things has been said and a lot of things 210 00:10:13,870 --> 00:10:17,770 have been written about his anti-social behavior. 211 00:10:17,770 --> 00:10:21,270 Diagnosis that were made early on in his life that seemed 212 00:10:21,270 --> 00:10:25,200 to have stuck with him through all this time. 213 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,780 I just think that it's a misnomer. 214 00:10:27,780 --> 00:10:31,010 -It just backs up the fact that everything you hear about him, 215 00:10:31,010 --> 00:10:34,650 from his nickname down to the fact that he was legit crazy, 216 00:10:34,650 --> 00:10:36,210 just shows [INAUDIBLE] backs it up, 217 00:10:36,210 --> 00:10:37,850 and he was really not all there. 218 00:10:37,850 --> 00:10:39,620 He was, you know, a couple French fries 219 00:10:39,620 --> 00:10:40,910 short of a Happy Meal. 220 00:10:40,910 --> 00:10:45,170 -Sam Giancana did not kill for the pleasure of killing people. 221 00:10:45,170 --> 00:10:47,890 It was purposeful killing and that's 222 00:10:47,890 --> 00:10:50,520 the way killing was usually done in the Outfit. 223 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:52,070 -You know, I mean obviously the guy 224 00:10:52,070 --> 00:10:55,460 was a-- he was a Capone guy. 225 00:10:55,460 --> 00:10:57,040 He was doing hits at a very young age. 226 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,000 Maybe the way he carried them out was a little bit out there 227 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,200 rather than just taking care of it business-like. 228 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:06,010 -So early on he showed viciousness 229 00:11:06,010 --> 00:11:07,690 that the other members didn't shown. 230 00:11:07,690 --> 00:11:09,800 Early on he showed leadership potential 231 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,920 that the other members didn't show. 232 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,590 And early on he showed an intelligence 233 00:11:14,590 --> 00:11:16,690 that the other members didn't show. 234 00:11:16,690 --> 00:11:18,950 NARRATOR: It was a growth time for street hoods. 235 00:11:18,950 --> 00:11:20,260 Prohibition. 236 00:11:20,260 --> 00:11:22,970 And Chicago was still a one boss town. 237 00:11:22,970 --> 00:11:25,970 The one boss was Al Capone. 238 00:11:25,970 --> 00:11:30,050 Sam met Capone at the Four Deuces in 1925. 239 00:11:30,050 --> 00:11:32,270 Capone gave Sam a job. 240 00:11:32,270 --> 00:11:37,120 Get rid of Johnny Torrio, who thought he was Al's boss. 241 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:38,850 Sam was the lead shooter when Torrio 242 00:11:38,850 --> 00:11:41,310 was almost killed outside his house. 243 00:11:41,310 --> 00:11:44,230 even though an Irish gang got the blame. 244 00:11:44,230 --> 00:11:46,730 Torrio pulled out of Chicago because Sam 245 00:11:46,730 --> 00:11:49,760 showed him it was a one boss town. 246 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,200 Then Capone sicked Sam on the rest of the competition. 247 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,510 Guys like Diamond Joe Esposito. 248 00:11:55,510 --> 00:11:59,970 Within those circles, Sam was like the killer's killer. 249 00:11:59,970 --> 00:12:02,560 Guys like Frank Nitti and Jack McGurn. 250 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:06,150 Guys they made movies about all called on young Sam 251 00:12:06,150 --> 00:12:09,300 to settle their books. 252 00:12:09,300 --> 00:12:13,140 [MUSIC PLAYING] 253 00:12:13,140 --> 00:12:16,520 In 1928, Sam falls in love. 254 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,470 Her name is Angelina DeTolve. 255 00:12:19,470 --> 00:12:22,430 She was beautiful, and from the neighborhood, 256 00:12:22,430 --> 00:12:25,400 and she had what Sam didn't have any of. 257 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,130 Respectability. 258 00:12:27,130 --> 00:12:31,210 Educated by nuns, her family came from southern Italy. 259 00:12:31,210 --> 00:12:34,140 Naturally they hated Sam with his fast cars 260 00:12:34,140 --> 00:12:36,120 and wide brimmed hats. 261 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,730 Angie heard about Sam's bad boy status 262 00:12:38,730 --> 00:12:40,870 and she was drawn to him. 263 00:12:40,870 --> 00:12:44,520 I mean, he acted real nice around her, right? 264 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,070 They were a real item for awhile there, 265 00:12:47,070 --> 00:12:50,870 and maybe he was thinking about giving up the life for her, 266 00:12:50,870 --> 00:12:52,280 but it didn't happen. 267 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,490 -You think Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929 268 00:12:55,490 --> 00:12:59,310 when seven members of a rival Irish gang headed by Bugs Moran 269 00:12:59,310 --> 00:13:01,810 were killed in a garage up in the Lincoln 270 00:13:01,810 --> 00:13:03,840 Park area of Chicago. 271 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,220 NARRATOR: The next year, "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn asked 272 00:13:06,220 --> 00:13:10,420 Sam to be wheelman for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. 273 00:13:10,420 --> 00:13:13,990 But Sam wasn't the kind of wheelman who waits in the car. 274 00:13:13,990 --> 00:13:16,260 He dressed up like a cop with the others 275 00:13:16,260 --> 00:13:19,500 and helped mow down the Bugs Moran gang. 276 00:13:19,500 --> 00:13:22,920 McGurn later told Capone that Sam was a gold mine. 277 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,030 A wheelman who could shoot. 278 00:13:26,030 --> 00:13:29,430 [GUNSHOTS FIRING] 279 00:13:35,270 --> 00:13:37,490 Then Sam had to go to Joliet-- not 280 00:13:37,490 --> 00:13:40,170 for that, but for a burglary rap. 281 00:13:40,170 --> 00:13:43,580 Can you imagine the relief Angeline's father felt? 282 00:13:43,580 --> 00:13:48,040 When Sam was upstream, she got engaged to another boy. 283 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:53,060 When Sam got out on parole, he died in a car accident. 284 00:13:53,060 --> 00:13:56,380 Angie was grieving and very vulnerable. 285 00:13:56,380 --> 00:13:59,350 All he thought about in prison was her. 286 00:13:59,350 --> 00:14:01,740 He became very persistent. 287 00:14:01,740 --> 00:14:04,940 -He just kind of bowled her over with flowers 288 00:14:04,940 --> 00:14:07,460 and attention and things like that. 289 00:14:07,460 --> 00:14:08,930 NARRATOR: Sam had two problems when 290 00:14:08,930 --> 00:14:10,690 he got out of Joliet prison. 291 00:14:10,690 --> 00:14:13,560 One, he had to support his dad, brothers, 292 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:16,140 and sisters who were destitute. 293 00:14:16,140 --> 00:14:20,360 Two, he desperately wanted to marry Angelina DeTolve. 294 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,250 He knew he had nothing to offer her other 295 00:14:22,250 --> 00:14:26,440 than starving relatives, a police record, and no money. 296 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,290 Something had to give. 297 00:14:28,290 --> 00:14:30,240 Sam gave. 298 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:31,600 He changed. 299 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,850 He didn't go straight, he went smart. 300 00:14:34,850 --> 00:14:37,350 No more the crazy antics of Mooney. 301 00:14:37,350 --> 00:14:41,340 He was back in the rackets, but way cool in the background, 302 00:14:41,340 --> 00:14:43,830 and his home life was immaculate. 303 00:14:43,830 --> 00:14:47,430 Yeah, he changed, because now he wanted something. 304 00:14:47,430 --> 00:14:49,200 He wanted her. 305 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,950 BONNIE GIANCANA: Her life was his life and anything 306 00:14:51,950 --> 00:14:55,420 you could do to make her life happier or better 307 00:14:55,420 --> 00:14:59,230 he would obviously try and do that. 308 00:14:59,230 --> 00:15:01,460 NARRATOR: She was too old for her father to stop her, 309 00:15:01,460 --> 00:15:03,120 so she said yes. 310 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,430 They were married on September 26, 1933. 311 00:15:06,430 --> 00:15:07,990 Regular Catholic wedding. 312 00:15:07,990 --> 00:15:09,550 Nothing fancy. 313 00:15:09,550 --> 00:15:13,180 She had on her mother's wedding ring and a white satin wedding 314 00:15:13,180 --> 00:15:16,000 gown, and he wore a big smile. 315 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,940 They moved into a house in "the Patch" 316 00:15:17,940 --> 00:15:21,250 just two doors down from the one Sam grew up in. 317 00:15:21,250 --> 00:15:24,520 He insisted on a clean house and an early dinner. 318 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,720 Their relationship-- how can I explain it. 319 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:36,240 It was a tender, true feeling, emotional, 320 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:40,610 sharing-- he was like a protector to her, 321 00:15:40,610 --> 00:15:42,610 and he did everything in his power-- 322 00:15:42,610 --> 00:15:46,520 as we've talked about-- to make sure that her life was as 323 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,060 beautiful as he could possibly make it. 324 00:15:49,060 --> 00:15:50,990 FRANCINE GIANCANA: He did adore her. 325 00:15:50,990 --> 00:15:53,300 He was gentle with her. 326 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:55,230 She definitely got whatever-- you 327 00:15:55,230 --> 00:15:58,520 know-- she wanted or needed in life. 328 00:16:03,380 --> 00:16:07,680 And with that situation, he was a very gentle person 329 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,440 which I feel he also was with me. 330 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,810 -He was a caretaker, he was a-- and a caregiver. 331 00:16:14,810 --> 00:16:20,720 He-- anything he could possibly do-- and I can only go back 332 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:24,200 and, you know, the way he eventually 333 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:28,610 took care of children is that anything she needed, anything 334 00:16:28,610 --> 00:16:32,880 she wanted-- I mean her life was his life. 335 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:34,510 FRANCINE GIANCANA: I don't recall them fighting. 336 00:16:34,510 --> 00:16:36,160 NARRATOR: The doctor worried for Angeline 337 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,050 when she got pregnant in 1935. 338 00:16:39,050 --> 00:16:42,010 She had delicate health all her life. 339 00:16:42,010 --> 00:16:43,950 But all went well and she gave birth 340 00:16:43,950 --> 00:16:47,040 to a baby girl they named Antoinette. 341 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,250 -The man was a great father. 342 00:16:49,250 --> 00:16:51,630 -There was never any yelling and screaming. 343 00:16:51,630 --> 00:16:53,250 Never any swearing. 344 00:16:53,250 --> 00:16:55,360 I never heard my father wear in that house. 345 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,540 I understand he had quite a temper 346 00:16:57,540 --> 00:17:01,450 and-- but never-- I never heard him swear in the house. 347 00:17:01,450 --> 00:17:08,830 Now, it was just an easy, pleasant, and nothing 348 00:17:08,830 --> 00:17:10,200 contentious. 349 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,400 It was almost like you're in a make-believe world. 350 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:18,370 NARRATOR: In 1938 Angelina gave birth to another girl. 351 00:17:18,370 --> 00:17:19,710 Bonita Lucille. 352 00:17:19,710 --> 00:17:20,840 Bonnie. 353 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,120 She was a very healthy baby. 354 00:17:23,120 --> 00:17:26,040 These were very happy times at home for Sam. 355 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:29,680 Sunday mornings he'd make the Italian pancakes for everybody. 356 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,850 Flour and milk in a frying pan with hot oil. 357 00:17:32,850 --> 00:17:37,190 Dad-- he just-- having dinner-- always had dinner together. 358 00:17:37,190 --> 00:17:42,200 I mean, that was, growing up it was 5:30, 6 o'clock. 359 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,390 We all sat down to dinner. 360 00:17:44,390 --> 00:17:47,730 -Basically when he was there, it was always [INAUDIBLE]. 361 00:17:47,730 --> 00:17:49,620 He never brought the outside in. 362 00:17:49,620 --> 00:17:51,830 BONNIE GIANCANA: He was funny, he was comical, he was witty, 363 00:17:51,830 --> 00:17:56,230 he was smart, he was charming. 364 00:17:56,230 --> 00:17:58,180 He just would walk into a room or a restaurant, 365 00:17:58,180 --> 00:18:00,160 and there was something about him 366 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,360 that people just were drawn to him. 367 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:03,560 Most of them didn't know who he was. 368 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,910 It was just that there was a certain presence about him. 369 00:18:05,910 --> 00:18:08,140 ARTHUR LURIGIO: He'd never step out of the house 370 00:18:08,140 --> 00:18:11,530 without looking like he came out of a catalog. 371 00:18:11,530 --> 00:18:13,380 Perfectly dressed from head to toe. 372 00:18:13,380 --> 00:18:15,350 My dad especially admired the hats that he wore. 373 00:18:15,350 --> 00:18:17,460 My dad would wear the same hats. 374 00:18:17,460 --> 00:18:19,830 BONNIE GIANCANA: Growing up, he was always dressed very well. 375 00:18:19,830 --> 00:18:22,040 He, you know, everything put together, 376 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,340 and then as I just go back and I start looking at pictures when 377 00:18:25,340 --> 00:18:28,930 he was younger, I just think, oh my gosh. 378 00:18:28,930 --> 00:18:31,330 He was scaffold back then. 379 00:18:31,330 --> 00:18:35,490 -You know, a very warm person. 380 00:18:35,490 --> 00:18:40,230 Very charming, very personable, very, 381 00:18:40,230 --> 00:18:43,000 very generous and very good. 382 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,530 -What I remember the most about what he would do for people is 383 00:18:47,530 --> 00:18:54,390 that anyone that had a problem-- could-- he could not say no. 384 00:18:54,390 --> 00:18:57,890 He wouldn't actually go out and offer, but if someone would 385 00:18:57,890 --> 00:19:01,930 come to him and ask, and I saw it over and over again. 386 00:19:01,930 --> 00:19:06,070 Especially with somebody-- the children of some of his 387 00:19:06,070 --> 00:19:09,930 associates that possibly were gonna-- 388 00:19:09,930 --> 00:19:11,020 didn't want to go to school. 389 00:19:11,020 --> 00:19:12,940 He believed that, you know, go to school, 390 00:19:12,940 --> 00:19:15,250 get a better education, have a different life. 391 00:19:15,250 --> 00:19:17,070 This is not the life for you. 392 00:19:17,070 --> 00:19:19,830 And I know for a fact that he's changed-- he changed-- 393 00:19:19,830 --> 00:19:21,780 personally changed several lives. 394 00:19:21,780 --> 00:19:22,880 Encouraging them to go to school, 395 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,200 helping them go to school, pay for their-- [INAUDIBLE] 396 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:26,390 going to school. 397 00:19:26,390 --> 00:19:28,430 -The Sam Giancana I met personally 398 00:19:28,430 --> 00:19:34,140 was soft spoken, gentlemanly, and bright! 399 00:19:34,140 --> 00:19:35,740 -It's why he walked into a room and everybody 400 00:19:35,740 --> 00:19:37,620 turned their head. 401 00:19:37,620 --> 00:19:40,600 -I think his biggest strength in my opinion-- for what I heard 402 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:42,550 over the years-- is that he's very charismatic. 403 00:19:42,550 --> 00:19:43,640 You know, he was. 404 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:47,430 He just overwhelmed people with his style and his power. 405 00:19:47,430 --> 00:19:50,550 And being a fact that he wouldn't hesitate one second 406 00:19:50,550 --> 00:19:54,600 to take care of something, you know, it was, you know, 407 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,010 [INAUDIBLE]. 408 00:19:56,010 --> 00:19:59,340 [GUNSHOTS FIRING] 409 00:19:59,340 --> 00:20:01,860 He represented a man that was-- certainly 410 00:20:01,860 --> 00:20:04,440 should have been feared, because he would not hesitate one 411 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,180 minute to [INAUDIBLE] a guy out. 412 00:20:06,180 --> 00:20:09,130 NARRATOR: So now Sam was using is wheelman skills 413 00:20:09,130 --> 00:20:12,750 as the personal driver for Outfit boss Paul Ricca. 414 00:20:12,750 --> 00:20:15,440 It was a whole lot safer than driving for jobs. 415 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:16,820 More steady. 416 00:20:16,820 --> 00:20:20,530 He needed to move up in order to support a growing family. 417 00:20:20,530 --> 00:20:22,810 As a cover, Sam worked with his brother-in-law 418 00:20:22,810 --> 00:20:25,890 in a small envelope factory, but it wasn't the kind 419 00:20:25,890 --> 00:20:28,330 of action he wanted to be close to. 420 00:20:28,330 --> 00:20:30,530 So we found some new action. 421 00:20:30,530 --> 00:20:31,940 Looked hopeful. 422 00:20:31,940 --> 00:20:34,870 Prohibition was over, but the wholesaler still 423 00:20:34,870 --> 00:20:37,600 liked to get the cheap tax-free stuff 424 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,040 so you could make more money. 425 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,970 Sam teamed up with another "Patch" hotshot, Guido 426 00:20:42,970 --> 00:20:45,710 [INAUDIBLE], to supply the bootleg. 427 00:20:45,710 --> 00:20:48,660 Felt like a lucky plan but it wasn't. 428 00:20:48,660 --> 00:20:51,870 The IRS raided the farm and busted the whole crew, 429 00:20:51,870 --> 00:20:53,490 Sam included. 430 00:20:53,490 --> 00:20:55,220 This was federal. 431 00:20:55,220 --> 00:20:58,700 No way could Sam's dad afford the $5,000 bail. 432 00:20:58,700 --> 00:21:01,810 That tab fell to Angeline's father to pay. 433 00:21:01,810 --> 00:21:03,660 Sam got four years. 434 00:21:03,660 --> 00:21:07,030 First in Leavenworth, then Terre Haute. 435 00:21:07,030 --> 00:21:09,370 Tough on Angelina and the girls. 436 00:21:09,370 --> 00:21:12,260 Angelina had delicate health and raising two kids 437 00:21:12,260 --> 00:21:14,520 alone with nothing took its toll. 438 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:19,490 BONNIE GIANCANA: The only thing I remember, for some reason, 439 00:21:19,490 --> 00:21:23,400 one Christmas, might have been a Christmas Eve or maybe 440 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,180 a Christmas Day, but someone came over. 441 00:21:26,180 --> 00:21:28,570 I think one of his friends came over and brought lots 442 00:21:28,570 --> 00:21:30,730 of-- lots of Christmas presents. 443 00:21:30,730 --> 00:21:33,280 NARRATOR: But for Sam, it was like being 444 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,770 sent away to graduate school. 445 00:21:35,770 --> 00:21:39,720 He learned all he needed to know from guys who knew everything. 446 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,920 Doing a stretch for tax evasion on Sam's cell block 447 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,450 was a talkative black convict named Eddie Jones. 448 00:21:46,450 --> 00:21:49,880 Eddie and his brothers were the policy kings of Chicago. 449 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,700 The policy racket took in $180,000 450 00:21:52,700 --> 00:21:55,010 a week in the black neighborhoods. 451 00:21:55,010 --> 00:21:56,140 ARTHUR LURIGIO: What was appealing 452 00:21:56,140 --> 00:21:58,020 about the policy rackets? 453 00:21:58,020 --> 00:22:00,980 Anybody could buy a lottery ticket. 454 00:22:00,980 --> 00:22:04,880 You could be the poorest man or woman in Chicago. 455 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,670 You could pay-- you could pay a nickel and you'd buy a number, 456 00:22:08,670 --> 00:22:10,700 and it was everybody's dream. 457 00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:14,680 I'm going to win today, I mean-- but it gave poor people 458 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,270 a daily sense of hopefulness. 459 00:22:17,270 --> 00:22:18,820 That's why it was so popular. 460 00:22:18,820 --> 00:22:21,540 NARRATOR: The Joneses controlled the policy racket, 461 00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:24,020 and Sam learned all about it from Eddie. 462 00:22:24,020 --> 00:22:26,140 Eddie and his brothers had made a fortune 463 00:22:26,140 --> 00:22:29,450 and owned greatest estates in France and Mexico. 464 00:22:29,450 --> 00:22:31,510 Sam and Eddie teamed up. 465 00:22:31,510 --> 00:22:34,510 Sam used his pull to get Eddie better treatment, 466 00:22:34,510 --> 00:22:37,390 and Eddie taught Sam how his family business worked 467 00:22:37,390 --> 00:22:39,070 and how to memorize number combinations. 468 00:22:44,330 --> 00:22:48,040 [MUSIC PLAYING] 469 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,180 JOHN J. BINDER: Eddie Jones was one of the three Jones' 470 00:22:50,180 --> 00:22:52,130 brothers who were involved in the policy gambling 471 00:22:52,130 --> 00:22:53,710 on the South Side of Chicago. 472 00:22:53,710 --> 00:22:55,890 There were a number of individuals-- most of them 473 00:22:55,890 --> 00:22:58,310 but not all them African American-- who were running 474 00:22:58,310 --> 00:23:00,570 policy gambling, which by the 1930s, 475 00:23:00,570 --> 00:23:02,730 was focused in the city's black neighborhood. 476 00:23:02,730 --> 00:23:05,610 The South Side and the West Side. 477 00:23:05,610 --> 00:23:08,480 The Jones brothers were very, very successful with this. 478 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,150 -Well, big Ed Jones was the-- at that period of time-- 479 00:23:11,150 --> 00:23:15,630 he was essentially the head of the policy racket in Chicago. 480 00:23:15,630 --> 00:23:18,170 Now there were probably a dozen different policy wheels-- 481 00:23:18,170 --> 00:23:22,700 independent policy wheels, but like the Outfit, 482 00:23:22,700 --> 00:23:26,700 they kind of unofficially would elect the titular head 483 00:23:26,700 --> 00:23:28,710 to represent them to the city. 484 00:23:28,710 --> 00:23:30,900 In other words he would be the bag man-- the payoff man-- 485 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:32,390 to bring the money into the city. 486 00:23:32,390 --> 00:23:35,080 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Policy rackets is a lottery. 487 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,100 Every day you pick a number. 488 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:38,660 Usually it's three numbers. 489 00:23:38,660 --> 00:23:40,420 Sometimes it's four or five. 490 00:23:40,420 --> 00:23:42,820 Eddie Jones said to Sam Giancana, hey, look, 491 00:23:42,820 --> 00:23:44,560 you know, when we get out of here 492 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,270 you know, maybe we can do some things together. 493 00:23:47,270 --> 00:23:50,150 -They became friends in prison, and I think maybe it's 494 00:23:50,150 --> 00:23:53,300 because they had a Chicago connection. 495 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:57,040 I think Sam liked Eddie Jones because Eddie 496 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,660 Jones was a gentleman. 497 00:23:58,660 --> 00:24:00,240 Eddie Jones had class. 498 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,760 I think Eddie Jones talked about his criminal activities 499 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:09,140 and probably Mooney did too, and they shared some stories. 500 00:24:09,140 --> 00:24:12,100 And Mooney figured out a way for the Outfit 501 00:24:12,100 --> 00:24:14,310 to make millions of dollars through the policy 502 00:24:14,310 --> 00:24:15,480 rackets or the numbers. 503 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,340 [MUSIC PLAYING] 504 00:24:25,140 --> 00:24:27,210 NARRATOR: When Sam got out in 1943, 505 00:24:27,210 --> 00:24:30,140 Chicago was still a one boss town. 506 00:24:30,140 --> 00:24:32,860 Only now the boss was a guy named 507 00:24:32,860 --> 00:24:37,260 Anthony Accardo, a guy Sam knew very well. 508 00:24:37,260 --> 00:24:41,690 Like Sam, Accardo was a Capone wheel-and-trigger man. 509 00:24:41,690 --> 00:24:44,900 While Sam managed to get out of the draft by saying the words, 510 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:49,020 "I steal," he did make it go at an honest living 511 00:24:49,020 --> 00:24:51,350 back at the envelope factory. 512 00:24:51,350 --> 00:24:53,710 Then Angeline got pregnant again, 513 00:24:53,710 --> 00:24:55,530 and Sam started thinking about ways 514 00:24:55,530 --> 00:24:57,670 to make his old colleague, Accardo, 515 00:24:57,670 --> 00:25:00,350 think of him as a major operator. 516 00:25:00,350 --> 00:25:03,890 Angeline's health took a bad turn and family members were 517 00:25:03,890 --> 00:25:08,340 afraid her rheumatic heart might not survive the pregnancy. 518 00:25:08,340 --> 00:25:10,170 She went into labor three months early 519 00:25:10,170 --> 00:25:13,480 and delivered a baby girl weighing only one pound. 520 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,100 Barely alive. 521 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:16,990 The doctors had to work around the clock 522 00:25:16,990 --> 00:25:18,500 to keep her breathing. 523 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:21,010 Sam was right there for all that. 524 00:25:21,010 --> 00:25:23,310 He'd come in every night after working the streets 525 00:25:23,310 --> 00:25:26,080 and fall asleep in that chair outside the baby's viewing 526 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:27,350 room. 527 00:25:27,350 --> 00:25:30,870 He was high on life the day she was well enough to go home. 528 00:25:30,870 --> 00:25:33,020 The baby made it. 529 00:25:33,020 --> 00:25:35,820 A third daughter, Francine. 530 00:25:35,820 --> 00:25:38,880 Not the son every Italian is supposed to want, 531 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,060 they say she was Sam's favorite. 532 00:25:41,060 --> 00:25:42,890 FRANCINE GIANCANA: [INAUDIBLE]. 533 00:25:42,890 --> 00:25:44,300 I'll admit it. 534 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:46,200 NARRATOR: When Eddie Jones got out of the joint, 535 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,750 Sam was right there waiting for him. 536 00:25:48,750 --> 00:25:52,490 House in the joint, house outside, right? 537 00:25:52,490 --> 00:25:56,300 Jones went for it and staked Sam to $100,000 538 00:25:56,300 --> 00:26:00,670 to run one of the Jones family rackets, jukeboxes. 539 00:26:00,670 --> 00:26:03,210 Sam did well with the jukeboxes, for both 540 00:26:03,210 --> 00:26:06,070 himself and the Jones family. 541 00:26:06,070 --> 00:26:08,630 That's the way that Sam made his first fortune. 542 00:26:08,630 --> 00:26:12,830 By 1945, Sam was able to move his family out of "the Patch" 543 00:26:12,830 --> 00:26:15,930 and into a large house in suburban Oak Park. 544 00:26:15,930 --> 00:26:21,050 -I think he admired Eddie Jones, but his interest in business 545 00:26:21,050 --> 00:26:23,690 transcended any personal feelings he might have had 546 00:26:23,690 --> 00:26:28,180 about him, and he saw an opportunity for the Outfit 547 00:26:28,180 --> 00:26:31,300 to encroach upon the policy rackets 548 00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:33,650 and eventually take over the policy rackets. 549 00:26:33,650 --> 00:26:35,880 NARRATOR: You think having some money for the first time 550 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,930 in his life he'd be satisfied. 551 00:26:37,930 --> 00:26:39,320 No. 552 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,670 Sam wanted a seat at the table. 553 00:26:41,670 --> 00:26:45,160 He knew the boss of Chicago came up the same way. 554 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,770 But the guys around the boss all thought of him as Mooney. 555 00:26:48,770 --> 00:26:52,280 Too crazy and unstable to run anything. 556 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,160 He had to change that. 557 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,760 -That was the door that was open to Sam Giancana-- which Eddie 558 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,930 Jones, I'm sure didn't [INAUDIBLE] Sam Giancana then 559 00:27:00,930 --> 00:27:03,700 [INAUDIBLE] levered it open by saying to the guys 560 00:27:03,700 --> 00:27:07,260 in the Outfit, hey, maybe the outfit can come in on this 561 00:27:07,260 --> 00:27:09,560 and basically grab this. 562 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,340 NARRATOR: He worked overtime to get an audience 563 00:27:11,340 --> 00:27:13,540 with Accardo in his inner circle. 564 00:27:13,540 --> 00:27:16,510 He offered to bring the profitable black policy 565 00:27:16,510 --> 00:27:19,460 wheel under Outfit control. 566 00:27:19,460 --> 00:27:20,860 All of it. 567 00:27:20,860 --> 00:27:22,720 That got their attention. 568 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,540 All he had to do was sell out the best friend he ever had. 569 00:27:26,540 --> 00:27:28,620 The guy that made it all possible for Sam 570 00:27:28,620 --> 00:27:31,290 to move his family to Oak Park. 571 00:27:31,290 --> 00:27:32,800 Eddie Jones. 572 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,030 ARTHUR LURIGIO: He kidnapped Eddie Jones 573 00:27:35,030 --> 00:27:39,760 and brought him to a basement of a home-- unknown location-- 574 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,330 and said, Eddie, you want to live? 575 00:27:42,330 --> 00:27:43,420 Here's what you have to do. 576 00:27:43,420 --> 00:27:48,500 Take this $250,000, take a train, go to Mexico. 577 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:49,820 See you later. 578 00:27:49,820 --> 00:27:52,960 And Eddie Jones was a rational and reasonable person, 579 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:54,560 and that's exactly what he did. 580 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,810 NARRATOR: Sam took over the entire policy wheel 581 00:27:57,810 --> 00:28:00,070 making him and the Outfit rich. 582 00:28:07,170 --> 00:28:11,080 [MUSIC PLAYING] 583 00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:17,870 ROBERT M. LOMBARDO: All indications 584 00:28:17,870 --> 00:28:21,370 are that he rose in stature because of his ability 585 00:28:21,370 --> 00:28:24,640 to take over the policy wheels in Chicago 586 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,700 which began with big Ed Jones. 587 00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:28,760 Now that didn't happen overnight. 588 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,930 There was probably a 10-year struggle 589 00:28:30,930 --> 00:28:33,150 to take control of these different policy wheels 590 00:28:33,150 --> 00:28:36,470 because the black policy syndicate resisted. 591 00:28:36,470 --> 00:28:42,040 But I really think that that pushed Giancana's status 592 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,710 up within organized crime because he 593 00:28:43,710 --> 00:28:45,850 was able to bring in that much money. 594 00:28:45,850 --> 00:28:46,990 Money is power. 595 00:28:46,990 --> 00:28:50,310 NARRATOR: And at home in Oak Park, things were great. 596 00:28:50,310 --> 00:28:53,010 Right there, on the corner of Wenonah and Fillmore, 597 00:28:53,010 --> 00:28:56,140 on a big lot and a garage against the alley, 598 00:28:56,140 --> 00:28:59,590 the Giancanas lived in postwar suburban splendor. 599 00:28:59,590 --> 00:29:02,500 BONNIE GIANCANA: What we thought was the normal was that-- come 600 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:06,750 home, you have dinner, you talk, you do things, spend time 601 00:29:06,750 --> 00:29:10,290 together, had lots of vacations. 602 00:29:10,290 --> 00:29:14,840 With vacations, I mean, as-- as a-- as a family. 603 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,050 But no, I never sensed that there was anything different. 604 00:29:17,050 --> 00:29:20,420 We all had our kind of places at the table. 605 00:29:20,420 --> 00:29:22,920 We just kind of fell into, you know, dad would sit here, 606 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,330 mom would sit there, and I would sit 607 00:29:25,330 --> 00:29:27,160 in one place and my little two sisters 608 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:28,940 would sit someplace else. 609 00:29:28,940 --> 00:29:31,200 NARRATOR: In spite of Angie's delicate health, 610 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:32,880 these were good times. 611 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,930 Sam bought a 16 millimeter projector 612 00:29:34,930 --> 00:29:37,280 so he and Angie could watch their favorite movie 613 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,090 every night, "Always in my Heart," 614 00:29:40,090 --> 00:29:43,570 starring Kay Francis and Walter Huston. 615 00:29:43,570 --> 00:29:44,770 Well did she say yes? 616 00:29:44,770 --> 00:29:48,500 -Well, not exactly, but I think I have an even chance. 617 00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:49,200 -Better than even. 618 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,090 I'm pulling for you. 619 00:29:50,090 --> 00:29:51,220 -Well thanks, Marty! 620 00:29:51,220 --> 00:29:52,040 Thanks. 621 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:53,540 BONNIE GIANCANA: If you don't know the story, 622 00:29:53,540 --> 00:29:54,880 it's about a man who-- a man that 623 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,900 goes to jail for something. 624 00:29:56,900 --> 00:29:59,020 As it turned out he was falsely accused of it, 625 00:29:59,020 --> 00:30:00,740 and he was married at the time. 626 00:30:00,740 --> 00:30:02,930 And since he was going to be gone for a long time, 627 00:30:02,930 --> 00:30:06,410 he divorced his wife and she went on-- basically on her way. 628 00:30:06,410 --> 00:30:09,160 And the end of the story is they get back together. 629 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,150 Everything is OK, and I think that may have been 630 00:30:12,150 --> 00:30:15,680 around the time when he was in jail in the '40s. 631 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:16,780 NARRATOR: The story of a wife who 632 00:30:16,780 --> 00:30:19,220 stays loyal to a husband who goes to jail 633 00:30:19,220 --> 00:30:22,440 was stirring stuff for the Giancanas. 634 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,900 -Always in my heart. 635 00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:27,490 [MUSIC PLAYING] 636 00:30:27,490 --> 00:30:28,590 BONNIE GIANCANA: He had to set up 637 00:30:28,590 --> 00:30:33,260 the projector and the screen, and the many times I would see, 638 00:30:33,260 --> 00:30:37,090 he'd be watching the movie and when my father would sit 639 00:30:37,090 --> 00:30:40,850 and-- he had is legs propped on something and he had this cigar 640 00:30:40,850 --> 00:30:43,150 and he would twirl the cigar. 641 00:30:43,150 --> 00:30:45,160 That's what I knew he would-- he would even 642 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,870 do that at the dinner table-- dinner-- 643 00:30:46,870 --> 00:30:49,310 after my mom died and he would start thinking. 644 00:30:49,310 --> 00:30:50,850 And he had this twirling cigar. 645 00:30:50,850 --> 00:30:52,640 He was-- there was something-- you know, 646 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,260 he was thinking about something. 647 00:30:54,260 --> 00:30:56,960 NARRATOR: Sam's daughter, Bonnie, excelled at athletics, 648 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,350 and that made her a special kind of companion for Sam. 649 00:31:00,350 --> 00:31:03,590 If there was anything Sam loved more than hitting the links, 650 00:31:03,590 --> 00:31:05,800 it was hitting the links with Bonnie. 651 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,330 Who from a very early age could give Sam 652 00:31:08,330 --> 00:31:10,470 a run for his money on the green. 653 00:31:10,470 --> 00:31:15,330 -I was a-- I was a Cub fan and I just always think 654 00:31:15,330 --> 00:31:17,450 I wanted to be a baseball player. 655 00:31:17,450 --> 00:31:20,910 When my mother was [INAUDIBLE], we'd do this [INAUDIBLE] 656 00:31:20,910 --> 00:31:25,870 and I remember-- [INAUDIBLE] "Sam, wanna 657 00:31:25,870 --> 00:31:28,100 do something with your daughter?" 658 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:31,920 And so the next day I was at the golf course. 659 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,740 NARRATOR: Sam got along so well with his daughters 660 00:31:34,740 --> 00:31:37,870 that they really had no idea what the other part of his life 661 00:31:37,870 --> 00:31:38,930 was about. 662 00:31:38,930 --> 00:31:41,470 -And so I only know one part of him. 663 00:31:41,470 --> 00:31:44,080 NARRATOR: Sam was always there for his family. 664 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,720 Not just looking after them and giving them things, 665 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,010 but contributing to their home life. 666 00:31:49,010 --> 00:31:50,770 Is charming side. 667 00:31:50,770 --> 00:31:53,260 He was never demanding or overbearing, 668 00:31:53,260 --> 00:31:55,080 but always charmed them into behaving 669 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,170 the way he felt girls should behave. 670 00:31:58,170 --> 00:32:02,690 BONNIE GIANCANA: We think he expected certain behavior. 671 00:32:02,690 --> 00:32:10,180 Girls were different in his life, in his world than boys. 672 00:32:10,180 --> 00:32:15,040 I know one thing that he really disliked is women smoking. 673 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:15,950 It'd drive him crazy. 674 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,370 NARRATOR: Holidays with Sam were always a blast. 675 00:32:23,370 --> 00:32:26,840 FRANCINE GIANCANA: Fourth of July, Christmas, New Year's. 676 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,720 They were all big holidays for us. 677 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,080 -Halloween was a wonderful time. 678 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,560 For some reason he liked Halloween. 679 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,070 At Halloween parties everyone got dressed. 680 00:32:38,070 --> 00:32:39,890 Always had pumpkins. 681 00:32:39,890 --> 00:32:42,040 On the outside, carved pumpkins. 682 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,580 Cracker Jack was the trick and treat in our house. 683 00:32:46,580 --> 00:32:48,250 Obviously every kind in the neighborhood 684 00:32:48,250 --> 00:32:50,560 would come get a box of Cracker Jack. 685 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,320 He enjoyed the social part of holidays. 686 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:55,900 Enjoyed having people in. 687 00:32:55,900 --> 00:32:57,470 Enjoyed having parties. 688 00:32:57,470 --> 00:33:01,570 Enjoyed even getting dressed up and doing kind of goofy things 689 00:33:01,570 --> 00:33:05,050 that you wouldn't expect a man like that to do. 690 00:33:05,050 --> 00:33:07,140 Everything took place in the basement. 691 00:33:07,140 --> 00:33:09,470 We had a tree upstairs. 692 00:33:09,470 --> 00:33:12,570 It basically would be the first floor of the house, 693 00:33:12,570 --> 00:33:16,180 and we had another tree downstairs 694 00:33:16,180 --> 00:33:19,050 because we were always down there and for Christmas Eve, 695 00:33:19,050 --> 00:33:22,730 Christmas Day, the whole holiday season-- we 696 00:33:22,730 --> 00:33:24,010 would be spending it down there. 697 00:33:24,010 --> 00:33:27,680 And, of course, Christmas was another big, big, big time, 698 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:31,150 and we had the Santa Claus-- we had a Santa Claus and sleigh 699 00:33:31,150 --> 00:33:36,370 and reindeer on the front-- on the front lawn all lit up. 700 00:33:36,370 --> 00:33:40,310 And there were-- all the shrubbery 701 00:33:40,310 --> 00:33:42,740 around the property was lit up. 702 00:33:42,740 --> 00:33:45,670 That was-- it was-- we enjoyed the holidays. 703 00:33:45,670 --> 00:33:46,810 It was festive. 704 00:33:46,810 --> 00:33:49,100 -I had gifts that were taller than me. 705 00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:53,150 -Gifts arriving-- you know, wine, cigars-- 706 00:33:53,150 --> 00:33:56,180 -He would have presents and he would have gifts 707 00:33:56,180 --> 00:34:01,090 and he would have envelopes, which I was more excited about. 708 00:34:01,090 --> 00:34:04,510 And because I know when I used to get an envelope at home, 709 00:34:04,510 --> 00:34:06,340 there was always a little money in it. 710 00:34:06,340 --> 00:34:09,400 But his envelopes are a little bit fatter. 711 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,140 NARRATOR: Angie was always the perfect wife. 712 00:34:12,140 --> 00:34:16,700 Living out the suburban American dream of the stylish homemaker. 713 00:34:16,700 --> 00:34:18,310 I suppose maybe by today's standards 714 00:34:18,310 --> 00:34:21,420 and say, social life, always dressed well. 715 00:34:21,420 --> 00:34:26,690 She would never think of leaving the house like-- [INAUDIBLE] 716 00:34:26,690 --> 00:34:27,990 kind of people leaving the house today. 717 00:34:27,990 --> 00:34:31,300 She's was always dressed, always-- well, 718 00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:34,570 you know, well manicured and suave. 719 00:34:34,570 --> 00:34:37,830 -She always was very stunning. 720 00:34:37,830 --> 00:34:42,100 I mean she dressed very classy. 721 00:34:42,100 --> 00:34:44,710 NARRATOR: As Sam rose in importance to the Outfit, 722 00:34:44,710 --> 00:34:46,770 he surrounded himself with his old pals 723 00:34:46,770 --> 00:34:50,950 from the 42 Gang-- Butch Blasi and Chuckie English. 724 00:34:50,950 --> 00:34:52,740 Butch and Chuckie. 725 00:34:52,740 --> 00:34:56,130 These two guys would center their lives around Sam. 726 00:34:56,130 --> 00:34:59,610 -You got almost certainly I think Butch Blasi, who becomes 727 00:34:59,610 --> 00:35:02,320 Sam's driver/bodyguard [INAUDIBLE]. 728 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,530 -Our godfather was Butch-- Dominic "Butch" Blasi 729 00:35:05,530 --> 00:35:09,090 who was Sam Giancana's bodyguard. 730 00:35:09,090 --> 00:35:13,390 -I just remember kind-hearted Butch. 731 00:35:13,390 --> 00:35:14,340 That's Butch Blasi. 732 00:35:14,340 --> 00:35:17,630 I mean, he-- for some reason, maybe by the time 733 00:35:17,630 --> 00:35:20,900 I started putting anything together, 734 00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:23,180 he would-- I mean he was like-- it 735 00:35:23,180 --> 00:35:24,790 seemed like he was his brother. 736 00:35:24,790 --> 00:35:27,480 That's how much he trusted him. 737 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,480 -Butch was actually a butcher, so like many members 738 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,200 of the Outfit, Butch had a legitimate business. 739 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,860 -Butch was kind of like a post-- you know, 740 00:35:37,860 --> 00:35:40,340 a leaning post and a communicator. 741 00:35:40,340 --> 00:35:44,980 -Butch Blasi was extremely loyal to Sam Giancana, which Butch 742 00:35:44,980 --> 00:35:49,450 Blasi played a number of different roles in the office, 743 00:35:49,450 --> 00:35:51,140 but they were all concentrated around 744 00:35:51,140 --> 00:35:55,090 Sam, and what Sam needed, and Sam's well-being. 745 00:35:55,090 --> 00:35:58,500 So Butch was called at various times to chauffeur. 746 00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:01,590 His bodyguard, his secretary, I call 747 00:36:01,590 --> 00:36:04,850 him also is emissary and intermediary. 748 00:36:04,850 --> 00:36:06,660 So Sam obviously trusted Butch. 749 00:36:06,660 --> 00:36:09,710 Being a chauffeur for a boss is a prized position. 750 00:36:09,710 --> 00:36:12,300 NARRATOR: Chuckie English was a handsome, charming guy 751 00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:14,340 with the ladies everywhere. 752 00:36:14,340 --> 00:36:17,040 One of Sam's most intimate friends. 753 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,150 He ran the very lucrative jukebox concession. 754 00:36:20,150 --> 00:36:21,280 JOHN J. BINDER: Chuck English gets 755 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,400 to be a very, very prominent guy in the Outfit 756 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,520 with a lot of interest on West Side gambling 757 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,390 and I think it's like vending machines and stuff like that. 758 00:36:30,390 --> 00:36:34,200 Chuckie English reaches his apex sort of under Sam Giancana. 759 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,100 NARRATOR: Another 42 alum was Jackie [INAUDIBLE], 760 00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:40,890 who rose up with Sam but later turned on him. 761 00:36:40,890 --> 00:36:45,470 In 1951, Sam got his mug on the front page of the Chicago Trib 762 00:36:45,470 --> 00:36:47,840 as one of the bad 19. 763 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,650 Kind of a who's who of Chicago gangsters. 764 00:36:50,650 --> 00:36:53,640 Sam's daughters felt the blowback at school. 765 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,250 Finding out the hard way what their dad did for a living. 766 00:36:57,250 --> 00:37:01,090 Angie tried to soft peddle at home explaining to the girls 767 00:37:01,090 --> 00:37:03,610 that their dad got into some trouble once, 768 00:37:03,610 --> 00:37:07,370 but now he was just a real smart businessman. 769 00:37:07,370 --> 00:37:11,160 -When the kids in my class had made some kind of a comment 770 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:16,040 about, oh, your dad's a gangster-- something like that, 771 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,220 [INAUDIBLE] just a second I got into a fight with them. 772 00:37:18,220 --> 00:37:23,570 -And it becomes this big 500 pound weight on your back. 773 00:37:23,570 --> 00:37:28,460 -Finger pointing [INAUDIBLE]. 774 00:37:28,460 --> 00:37:29,920 I just ignored it. 775 00:37:34,130 --> 00:37:36,560 I didn't think it was real. 776 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,490 -You hear whispers, you hear people 777 00:37:38,490 --> 00:37:39,790 pointing the finger at you. 778 00:37:39,790 --> 00:37:42,360 People making comments about your family and your uncles 779 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:43,970 and stuff like that. 780 00:37:43,970 --> 00:37:45,750 And, you know, we talk about it, but the world 781 00:37:45,750 --> 00:37:48,120 does become small. 782 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,700 It becomes very small to you, and you do get the sense 783 00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:53,750 that people are watching-- even when they're not, 784 00:37:53,750 --> 00:37:56,140 you become overly paranoid. 785 00:37:56,140 --> 00:37:59,130 And you live a life that way, and it's very difficult 786 00:37:59,130 --> 00:38:01,330 to-- it's very difficult to shake that. 787 00:38:01,330 --> 00:38:03,090 -Well, I dunno. 788 00:38:03,090 --> 00:38:06,110 I just walked with my head high. 789 00:38:06,110 --> 00:38:09,430 I didn't-- I just let it bounce off my shoulders. 790 00:38:09,430 --> 00:38:11,420 -Well, the one thing I always-- what 791 00:38:11,420 --> 00:38:15,890 I started seeing in our family-- that everybody just because 792 00:38:15,890 --> 00:38:17,540 very negative. 793 00:38:17,540 --> 00:38:19,430 -I respectfully decline to answer 794 00:38:19,430 --> 00:38:21,740 on the grounds [INAUDIBLE]. 795 00:38:21,740 --> 00:38:24,240 BONNIE GIANCANA: [INAUDIBLE] was investigating. 796 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:26,400 Names were being brought up, and that's 797 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:31,180 when I started to realize that he had 798 00:38:31,180 --> 00:38:34,810 a higher position-- he was different. 799 00:38:34,810 --> 00:38:36,540 -Always thinking the worst. 800 00:38:36,540 --> 00:38:37,690 Paranoid of the mail. 801 00:38:37,690 --> 00:38:40,130 Paranoid of the doorbell ringing. 802 00:38:40,130 --> 00:38:42,090 Paranoid of people you don't know in a room. 803 00:38:42,090 --> 00:38:43,850 You know, you question everything 804 00:38:43,850 --> 00:38:45,910 because that's how you grow up. 805 00:38:45,910 --> 00:38:48,100 You grow up being driven to school. 806 00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:50,640 You grow up being told, you know, make sure this person 807 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,030 comes and picks you up. 808 00:38:53,030 --> 00:38:54,230 -I didn't know. 809 00:38:54,230 --> 00:38:55,080 I didn't know. 810 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:56,870 Don't want to believe it. 811 00:38:56,870 --> 00:38:59,030 No one seemed happy in their own skin. 812 00:38:59,030 --> 00:39:01,730 And while it may have been rough on the playground, 813 00:39:01,730 --> 00:39:04,380 there were perks to having a dad that was quickly becoming 814 00:39:04,380 --> 00:39:06,390 the major earner for the Outfit. 815 00:39:06,390 --> 00:39:08,220 BONNIE GIANCANA: All you had to do was ask to be there. 816 00:39:08,220 --> 00:39:10,360 Whatever-- you go to a restaurant 817 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,610 if you go to wherever you want, you 818 00:39:12,610 --> 00:39:15,020 were always given red carpet treatment. 819 00:39:15,020 --> 00:39:17,470 Things like that. 820 00:39:17,470 --> 00:39:20,780 If you wanted to see a show and there weren't any tables, 821 00:39:20,780 --> 00:39:22,820 tables would appear. 822 00:39:22,820 --> 00:39:25,060 -My mother said he was just a wonderful guy. 823 00:39:25,060 --> 00:39:28,870 Every time she would go to dinner. 824 00:39:28,870 --> 00:39:31,060 Especially at places that Sam frequented. 825 00:39:31,060 --> 00:39:32,510 Never could pick up a check. 826 00:39:32,510 --> 00:39:38,670 And it was a life that really not a normal person would live. 827 00:39:38,670 --> 00:39:42,810 -Maybe we had a little bit more than other people 828 00:39:42,810 --> 00:39:46,020 and we had more privileges. 829 00:39:46,020 --> 00:39:48,730 Cars-- maybe driving better cars. 830 00:39:48,730 --> 00:39:51,970 -Sam told my father that if my name ever helps you out, 831 00:39:51,970 --> 00:39:53,370 use it. 832 00:39:53,370 --> 00:39:56,160 My father told me he used it one time. 833 00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:01,490 He was at Christmas party when he worked for Ford back then, 834 00:40:01,490 --> 00:40:06,300 and they were in this hall having dinner 835 00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:08,220 with all the salesmen and managers 836 00:40:08,220 --> 00:40:10,460 from all over-- probably the Midwest. 837 00:40:10,460 --> 00:40:12,960 And he said that there was another table that got drunk 838 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:14,650 and they were using profanity and they 839 00:40:14,650 --> 00:40:16,470 were swearing and everything else. 840 00:40:16,470 --> 00:40:19,070 My father said, "Would you mind toning it down 841 00:40:19,070 --> 00:40:20,990 because there's women at the table." 842 00:40:20,990 --> 00:40:22,730 Well, apparently my dad turned around. 843 00:40:22,730 --> 00:40:24,370 The guy got up. 844 00:40:24,370 --> 00:40:26,150 Walked towards my father with a bottle 845 00:40:26,150 --> 00:40:28,070 to hit him in the head with it. 846 00:40:28,070 --> 00:40:30,100 So my mother said, "Nick, duck!" 847 00:40:30,100 --> 00:40:31,610 So my father ducked. 848 00:40:31,610 --> 00:40:34,720 He swung it, and the place broke out in this huge fight. 849 00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:36,850 My father's friends punished everything-- 850 00:40:36,850 --> 00:40:37,860 they laid them out. 851 00:40:37,860 --> 00:40:41,230 The police came and then grabbed my father. 852 00:40:41,230 --> 00:40:44,110 And they were taking him-- they were going to arrest him. 853 00:40:44,110 --> 00:40:46,600 My father said to him, "My uncle wouldn't 854 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,190 be happy if this happened to me." 855 00:40:49,190 --> 00:40:50,990 And the cop said, "Who's your uncle?" [INAUDIBLE] 856 00:40:50,990 --> 00:40:51,690 Sam Giancana." 857 00:40:51,690 --> 00:40:53,180 He goes, "Come with me." 858 00:40:53,180 --> 00:40:56,280 Grabbed my father, uncuffed him, took him around the back, 859 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,820 got him an elevator, and said, "Get out of here." 860 00:40:59,820 --> 00:41:02,760 [MUSIC PLAYING] 861 00:41:09,380 --> 00:41:11,340 BONNIE GIANCANA: She was not always in the best of health, 862 00:41:11,340 --> 00:41:15,220 so the winters in Chicago were getting a bit much. 863 00:41:15,220 --> 00:41:17,470 And so we were spending a lot more time-- er, 864 00:41:17,470 --> 00:41:20,420 she was spending a lot more time in Florida. 865 00:41:20,420 --> 00:41:24,580 NARRATOR: In 1954, at age 40, Angie suffered a stroke 866 00:41:24,580 --> 00:41:26,980 while vacationing in Palm Beach. 867 00:41:26,980 --> 00:41:29,360 It was a blood clot that formed behind her heart 868 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,550 and moved to her brain. 869 00:41:31,550 --> 00:41:33,880 She slipped into a semi-coma. 870 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,770 Sam was at her side holding her hand 871 00:41:35,770 --> 00:41:39,240 for every second of her last 48 hours. 872 00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:41,880 When she died, Francine and Bonnie 873 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,550 were at school in Chicago. 874 00:41:43,550 --> 00:41:45,900 BONNIE GIANCANA: I came home from school 875 00:41:45,900 --> 00:41:50,860 and I walked in the house and I saw a roomful of people. 876 00:41:50,860 --> 00:41:54,760 I looked around and said, "Where's Mom?" 877 00:41:54,760 --> 00:42:00,130 -He did wear a black tie-- for a year-- what I remember-- 878 00:42:00,130 --> 00:42:03,500 and, which, kind of, at that time, 879 00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:07,770 I thought that was just better-- you know, that was respectful. 880 00:42:07,770 --> 00:42:10,830 -He lost the love of his life. 881 00:42:10,830 --> 00:42:13,800 NARRATOR: Sam was disconsolate after Angie died. 882 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,240 He retreated. 883 00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:17,450 He turned over the day-to-day responsibilities 884 00:42:17,450 --> 00:42:20,300 of raising the girls to Angie's sister. 885 00:42:20,300 --> 00:42:22,960 At night, after the girls went to bed, 886 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,590 Sam would break out the projector 887 00:42:24,590 --> 00:42:27,280 and watch his and Angie's favorite movie, 888 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:28,490 "Always in my Heart." 889 00:42:28,490 --> 00:42:31,390 He would fall asleep on the couch and wake 890 00:42:31,390 --> 00:42:34,060 up to the sound of the projector reel flapping. 891 00:42:34,060 --> 00:42:37,280 -He would play that over and over. 892 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,090 He would go in his little office, put in-- I don't know, 893 00:42:41,090 --> 00:42:46,040 a 16 meter and he would just watch that quite a bit. 894 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:50,970 And I think more so after my mother passed away. 895 00:42:50,970 --> 00:42:54,280 It must of reminded him of his [INAUDIBLE] or whatever. 896 00:42:57,010 --> 00:43:00,110 NARRATOR: Both Sam's father, Antonino, and his beloved wife, 897 00:43:00,110 --> 00:43:04,250 Angie, died in 1954 only a couple months apart 898 00:43:04,250 --> 00:43:06,910 and both after long illnesses. 899 00:43:06,910 --> 00:43:10,900 Politicos, businessmen, and mob leaders from across the country 900 00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:13,470 turned out for both funeral services, 901 00:43:13,470 --> 00:43:17,770 noting Momo particularly solemn and well-behaved at both. 902 00:43:17,770 --> 00:43:22,700 -After that, it seemed everything changed. 903 00:43:22,700 --> 00:43:27,500 Something changed in him, and he wasn't as cautious 904 00:43:27,500 --> 00:43:30,150 as he may have been or should have been. 905 00:43:30,150 --> 00:43:32,840 He became more flamboyant. 906 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,640 -Yeah, he wasn't at home as much. 907 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,970 BONNIE GIANCANA: The following year my dad and I went to Vegas 908 00:43:38,970 --> 00:43:44,250 and he was going to have a birthday party for me. 909 00:43:44,250 --> 00:43:46,320 Not that I knew anybody, but there 910 00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,400 was a bunch of celebrities there. 911 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:54,320 [INAUDIBLE], Julie Lewis, Sinatra, I think, 912 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,110 showed up for a little while. 913 00:43:56,110 --> 00:43:59,080 Joe DiMaggio may have been there. 914 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:03,770 I mean it was something that was a surprise. 915 00:44:03,770 --> 00:44:05,520 NARRATOR: Sam threw himself in his work 916 00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,120 and started to spread out in ways no man from "the Patch" 917 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:09,820 had ever spread out before. 918 00:44:09,820 --> 00:44:12,650 For starters, he became crime boss of Chicago. 919 00:44:18,860 --> 00:44:22,300 [MUSIC PLAYING] 920 00:44:26,230 --> 00:44:29,030 MR. X: Sam probably had very good skills-- 921 00:44:29,030 --> 00:44:30,920 people skills for the people he wanted to. 922 00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,350 -Sam Giancana appears to come in as the operating 923 00:44:33,350 --> 00:44:35,070 boss of the Outfit in '57. 924 00:44:35,070 --> 00:44:38,850 Tony Accardo voluntarily steps out of that role. 925 00:44:38,850 --> 00:44:42,010 ROSS RICE: Well, Tony was the head of the Chicago family-- 926 00:44:42,010 --> 00:44:44,730 repeated head of the Chicago family for a number of years. 927 00:44:44,730 --> 00:44:47,120 He got his start back in prohibition 928 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,160 working for Al Capone. 929 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,130 Never convicted of crime. 930 00:44:52,130 --> 00:44:54,190 He had several different tenures as the head 931 00:44:54,190 --> 00:44:57,360 of the Chicago family as best we can tell. 932 00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:02,650 He would voluntarily step aside for health or personal reasons, 933 00:45:02,650 --> 00:45:05,650 but would always serve as a consigliere or a counselor. 934 00:45:05,650 --> 00:45:08,850 -When Tony Accardo decided to retire, 935 00:45:08,850 --> 00:45:13,190 Sam was his underboss then and he just got into that slot. 936 00:45:13,190 --> 00:45:15,450 -Initially, Accardo in my opinion 937 00:45:15,450 --> 00:45:18,170 was the guy who pulled Giancana off. 938 00:45:18,170 --> 00:45:19,990 Probably got him into the Outfit. 939 00:45:19,990 --> 00:45:22,300 He probably-- Sam Giancana was probably not more 940 00:45:22,300 --> 00:45:25,320 than an associate when he first went away to prison 941 00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,730 for the bootlegging charge of late 1930s. 942 00:45:27,730 --> 00:45:30,610 Comes back out and I think he becomes probably a full member 943 00:45:30,610 --> 00:45:33,500 of the Outfit because Giancana gets recognized 944 00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:35,470 by Accardo. [INAUDIBLE] well, this guy's got some ideas, 945 00:45:35,470 --> 00:45:37,060 he's got something on the ball. 946 00:45:37,060 --> 00:45:40,650 And I believe his rapid rise was due solely to that. 947 00:45:40,650 --> 00:45:42,580 -For Sam to be able to bullshit that guy, 948 00:45:42,580 --> 00:45:44,400 you got to give Sam some credit for that. 949 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,230 For as crazy [INAUDIBLE] as he was, 950 00:45:46,230 --> 00:45:47,370 it's a pretty good accomplishment. 951 00:45:52,810 --> 00:45:54,280 NARRATOR: What Sam soon discovered 952 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,780 was that Chicago was no longer a one boss town. 953 00:45:57,780 --> 00:46:00,720 Tony Accardo wasn't going anywhere. 954 00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:03,300 He just wanted Sam to be his beard. 955 00:46:03,300 --> 00:46:05,550 To step up and take the heat. 956 00:46:05,550 --> 00:46:08,090 MR. X: His boss before him, Tony Accardo [INAUDIBLE], 957 00:46:08,090 --> 00:46:09,680 you know, he outlined a program there, 958 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,570 you know, live underneath the radar as well as you could. 959 00:46:12,570 --> 00:46:14,720 Which obviously in that spot it's really hard to do, 960 00:46:14,720 --> 00:46:17,460 but you don't have to bring out more than is necessary. 961 00:46:17,460 --> 00:46:19,240 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Tony Accardo, in some respects, 962 00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:21,440 was the antithesis of Sam Giancana. 963 00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,870 Tony Accardo didn't want to be in the limelight ever. 964 00:46:24,870 --> 00:46:28,440 Tony Accardo wanted to keep his picture out of the newspaper. 965 00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,190 Tony Accardo wanted a low profile. 966 00:46:31,190 --> 00:46:33,880 Tony Accardo sold his mansion in River Port 967 00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,150 because he was getting too much attention because it was 968 00:46:36,150 --> 00:46:41,030 palatial and moved to a small apartment with his wife. 969 00:46:41,030 --> 00:46:43,040 Tony Accardo didn't want his face out there. 970 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,900 Didn't want himself being up front. 971 00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:47,460 JOHN J. BINDER: Starting in about 1957, 972 00:46:47,460 --> 00:46:51,040 Sam Giancana is the operating loss of the Outfit. 973 00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:56,180 But in those years, beginning probably around 1943, 974 00:46:56,180 --> 00:46:58,840 there is a guy above the operating boss. 975 00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:00,740 The operating boss, unlike in New York or other crime 976 00:47:00,740 --> 00:47:02,820 families, is not the last word. 977 00:47:02,820 --> 00:47:05,660 There's a chairman of the board above the operating boss. 978 00:47:05,660 --> 00:47:09,440 When Giancana is the operating boss from '57 to '66, 979 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,180 Tony Accardo is the so-called chairman of the board. 980 00:47:12,180 --> 00:47:16,070 -Well, there's some suggestion that Sam was the street boss, 981 00:47:16,070 --> 00:47:20,650 Sam was the front boss, but behind the scenes, Tony Accardo 982 00:47:20,650 --> 00:47:23,180 and Paul "The Waiter" Rico were still calling the shots, 983 00:47:23,180 --> 00:47:24,140 making the final decisions. 984 00:47:24,140 --> 00:47:30,630 In 1957, in thereabouts, Tony Accardo decided to step back. 985 00:47:30,630 --> 00:47:32,510 Let somebody else take over. 986 00:47:32,510 --> 00:47:35,960 Around that time there was a little more law enforcement 987 00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:37,820 heat being generated on the Outfit. 988 00:47:37,820 --> 00:47:41,730 There was no denying that there was organized crime in America. 989 00:47:41,730 --> 00:47:46,300 After the Apalachin Meeting took place, 990 00:47:46,300 --> 00:47:47,710 J. Edgar Hoover couldn't say there 991 00:47:47,710 --> 00:47:49,390 was no such thing as organized crime. 992 00:47:49,390 --> 00:47:51,300 -What a lot of people fail to realize 993 00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:53,190 is that the FBI really didn't get involved 994 00:47:53,190 --> 00:47:55,970 in the investigation of organized crime of the mafia 995 00:47:55,970 --> 00:48:00,620 until the mid to late 1950s. 996 00:48:00,620 --> 00:48:03,650 NARRATOR: On November 4, 1957, in the home of Joe 997 00:48:03,650 --> 00:48:06,930 "The Barber" Barbera, in Apalachin, New York, 998 00:48:06,930 --> 00:48:11,490 was the historic summit of mob leadership attended by over 100 999 00:48:11,490 --> 00:48:13,340 mobsters from all over the United 1000 00:48:13,340 --> 00:48:15,800 States, Canada, and Italy. 1001 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:19,450 Sam was there representing the Chicago Outfit. 1002 00:48:19,450 --> 00:48:21,890 Local and state law enforcement agencies, 1003 00:48:21,890 --> 00:48:26,110 who noticed all the out-of-state plates on all the fancy cars, 1004 00:48:26,110 --> 00:48:28,230 raided the meeting and detained and indicted 1005 00:48:28,230 --> 00:48:30,480 over 60 crime bosses. 1006 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:34,310 The others, Sam included, literally headed for the hills 1007 00:48:34,310 --> 00:48:35,830 to avoid [INAUDIBLE]. 1008 00:48:35,830 --> 00:48:40,230 The main outcome was that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover could 1009 00:48:40,230 --> 00:48:44,410 no longer ignore the existence of organized crime in America. 1010 00:48:44,410 --> 00:48:47,180 He was forced to put some guys on it. 1011 00:48:47,180 --> 00:48:50,330 -The event that really propelled Cosa Nostra 1012 00:48:50,330 --> 00:48:53,240 to the national prominence was the discovery 1013 00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:56,460 of what was called the Apalachin Meeting in upstate New York. 1014 00:48:56,460 --> 00:48:59,510 That's when law enforcement officials, federal law 1015 00:48:59,510 --> 00:49:02,440 enforcement officials, the FBI, and the Department of Justice 1016 00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,890 realized that there was an organized crime 1017 00:49:04,890 --> 00:49:09,350 element in American society was much larger, much greater 1018 00:49:09,350 --> 00:49:11,690 in terms of length and reach than we 1019 00:49:11,690 --> 00:49:14,050 had ever thought existed. 1020 00:49:14,050 --> 00:49:16,740 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Sam lived in Oak Park, 1147 Winona Street. 1021 00:49:16,740 --> 00:49:20,110 I know the address because my dad would drive me past Sam's 1022 00:49:20,110 --> 00:49:22,830 house all the time to show me the FBI cars, 1023 00:49:22,830 --> 00:49:25,040 and they were always sitting there even if Sam wasn't there. 1024 00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:28,530 When Sam was in Mexico, the FBI was sitting in front. 1025 00:49:28,530 --> 00:49:30,840 NARRATOR: The FBI, with virtually no experience dealing 1026 00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:34,490 with organized crime, put the full court press on Sam 1027 00:49:34,490 --> 00:49:38,030 utilizing nine cars to follow his every move. 1028 00:49:38,030 --> 00:49:41,430 They were going up against the best wheelman in Chicago. 1029 00:49:41,430 --> 00:49:43,710 He led these suits on a chase like something 1030 00:49:43,710 --> 00:49:45,460 out of an action movie. 1031 00:49:45,460 --> 00:49:50,670 Losing them, causing them to have collisions, 1032 00:49:50,670 --> 00:49:54,540 and even sneaking up behind one agent, who was totally lost, 1033 00:49:54,540 --> 00:49:57,420 and taunting, "Here I am!" 1034 00:49:57,420 --> 00:50:00,270 But they found better ways to follow his activities 1035 00:50:00,270 --> 00:50:02,510 and actually tried to gaslight him. 1036 00:50:02,510 --> 00:50:04,510 -They took, in particular delight, 1037 00:50:04,510 --> 00:50:09,040 in trying to annoy and rattle Sam Giancana to the point where 1038 00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,460 they had 24 hour surveillance on him. 1039 00:50:11,460 --> 00:50:13,060 ROSS RICE: Our investigation here in Chicago 1040 00:50:13,060 --> 00:50:17,130 didn't center on Sam Giancana because of he was Sam Giancana. 1041 00:50:17,130 --> 00:50:18,320 It was because he was the repeated 1042 00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,190 head of the Chicago Outfit. 1043 00:50:20,190 --> 00:50:22,900 So we were looking at him as the leader of this group 1044 00:50:22,900 --> 00:50:25,710 as well as a number of his underlings in attendance. 1045 00:50:25,710 --> 00:50:27,410 JOHN J. BINDER: I think they knew that, well, they 1046 00:50:27,410 --> 00:50:28,740 estimated we can rattle this guy. 1047 00:50:28,740 --> 00:50:31,450 We can get to this guy. 1048 00:50:31,450 --> 00:50:34,970 -You know, always looking over my shoulder. 1049 00:50:34,970 --> 00:50:38,240 To this day I won't sit with my back towards the window. 1050 00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:40,240 ROSS RICE: Bill Roemer was one of about a dozen agents 1051 00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:44,760 assigned to Chicago office who were part of a squad or a group 1052 00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,080 that was charged with investigating 1053 00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:47,440 the Chicago Outfit. 1054 00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,280 NARRATOR: FBI agent Bill Roemer came to know more 1055 00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,370 about Sam Giancana than he'd ever wanted. 1056 00:50:53,370 --> 00:50:55,480 -Bill attended the Notre Dame University. 1057 00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:56,850 Was a boxer. 1058 00:50:56,850 --> 00:51:00,600 Had a very imposing physical presence. 1059 00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:02,480 Like most of the agents that were on the squad 1060 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,130 then and worked with Bill, they were 1061 00:51:05,130 --> 00:51:06,750 very dedicated to their job. 1062 00:51:06,750 --> 00:51:08,810 It wasn't personal with them. 1063 00:51:08,810 --> 00:51:11,130 They have no personal animosity towards Sam 1064 00:51:11,130 --> 00:51:12,800 Giancana or anyone else. 1065 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,910 They were tasked with gathering evidence 1066 00:51:15,910 --> 00:51:18,920 on the existence of this organized crime group. 1067 00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:20,620 There was the Outfit-- the Chicago Outfit, 1068 00:51:20,620 --> 00:51:23,380 and they set about that job in a very professional manner. 1069 00:51:23,380 --> 00:51:25,730 NARRATOR: Over his years in following Sam, 1070 00:51:25,730 --> 00:51:28,510 Agent Roemer would have a number of confrontations 1071 00:51:28,510 --> 00:51:30,770 and hear a lot of personal threats. 1072 00:51:30,770 --> 00:51:33,590 And every time Sam pushed back at the feds, 1073 00:51:33,590 --> 00:51:35,780 Tony Accardo got pissed off. 1074 00:51:35,780 --> 00:51:37,940 You weren't supposed to do things that attracted more 1075 00:51:37,940 --> 00:51:41,640 attention to the Outfit than was absolutely necessary, 1076 00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,840 and Sam drew a lot of heat. 1077 00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:48,020 -Sam would often threaten Butch at the instrumentality 1078 00:51:48,020 --> 00:51:48,860 of violence. 1079 00:51:48,860 --> 00:51:52,410 He screamed at Agent Roemer, "I'm 1080 00:51:52,410 --> 00:51:55,060 going to get Butch to come after you with a machine gun." 1081 00:51:55,060 --> 00:51:57,010 ROSS RICE: I think he and the other agents were offended 1082 00:51:57,010 --> 00:52:01,010 at times by some of the things that Sam Giancana did or said 1083 00:52:01,010 --> 00:52:02,770 and the way he treated the agents. 1084 00:52:02,770 --> 00:52:05,970 I now that Sam was always treated with respect. 1085 00:52:05,970 --> 00:52:08,210 He was afforded his right under the Constitution 1086 00:52:08,210 --> 00:52:10,260 by the agents that investigated him. 1087 00:52:10,260 --> 00:52:12,690 I don't think Sam returned the favor. 1088 00:52:12,690 --> 00:52:15,080 -Sam was not the most stable character as opposed 1089 00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:19,270 to Paul Rico, Tony Accardo where stuff just 1090 00:52:19,270 --> 00:52:22,740 bounces off of those guys [INAUDIBLE]. 1091 00:52:22,740 --> 00:52:26,340 So they-- they had a very particular strategy then. 1092 00:52:26,340 --> 00:52:27,960 So how do we get to this guy? 1093 00:52:30,820 --> 00:52:33,020 NARRATOR: The tails paid off for the feds. 1094 00:52:33,020 --> 00:52:35,140 Before long they knew all the places 1095 00:52:35,140 --> 00:52:37,010 where Sam talked business. 1096 00:52:37,010 --> 00:52:40,490 Roemer planted the bugs himself, fully aware that he could 1097 00:52:40,490 --> 00:52:45,120 tell no one, carry no badge, and say nothing about the FBI 1098 00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:46,790 if he got caught. 1099 00:52:46,790 --> 00:52:49,260 He managed to plant live mics in most of the places 1100 00:52:49,260 --> 00:52:52,390 where Sam held secret meetings with Accardo, Butch, 1101 00:52:52,390 --> 00:52:55,270 Chuckie, and many other intimates. 1102 00:52:55,270 --> 00:52:58,370 They had Sam wired for sound, and over the years 1103 00:52:58,370 --> 00:53:00,770 they found out a lot of amazing things 1104 00:53:00,770 --> 00:53:04,290 that they could never prosecute because these wiretaps were not 1105 00:53:04,290 --> 00:53:04,990 legal. 1106 00:53:04,990 --> 00:53:06,750 -We had the tapes but they couldn't 1107 00:53:06,750 --> 00:53:08,820 be used against him in court. 1108 00:53:08,820 --> 00:53:10,810 And I think that was disheartening to the agents 1109 00:53:10,810 --> 00:53:13,830 because, from my experience, there is no better evidence 1110 00:53:13,830 --> 00:53:17,100 that you can present to a jury than a defendant's own words 1111 00:53:17,100 --> 00:53:18,320 in his own voice. 1112 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,710 -Sam taped the FBI following him. 1113 00:53:20,710 --> 00:53:22,950 Sam took pictures of the FBI following. 1114 00:53:22,950 --> 00:53:25,440 -Even on the golf course, they were playing a foursome-- 1115 00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,530 the FBI guy just playing foursome behind Sam Giancana, 1116 00:53:28,530 --> 00:53:31,790 and if they could, try and drive their balls into wear 1117 00:53:31,790 --> 00:53:33,930 Sam was standing as he's waiting at the next tee. 1118 00:53:33,930 --> 00:53:34,650 Stuff like that. 1119 00:53:34,650 --> 00:53:36,480 BONNIE GIANCANA: He used to play golf here quite a bit, 1120 00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:40,020 and of course, everybody knew that he was-- he played golf 1121 00:53:40,020 --> 00:53:44,010 here, and when he-- the government was 1122 00:53:44,010 --> 00:53:49,180 after him and harassing him and following him, 1123 00:53:49,180 --> 00:53:52,300 they would end up coming-- rent a golf cart, play golf. 1124 00:53:52,300 --> 00:53:55,140 At some point in time, he had a camera-- he had a camera 1125 00:53:55,140 --> 00:54:03,970 and started taking pictures of-- [INAUDIBLE] following him here 1126 00:54:03,970 --> 00:54:05,600 at the golf course and other places. 1127 00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:08,050 That-- that was kind of an interesting-- 1128 00:54:08,050 --> 00:54:11,690 it was kind of a fun-- something to watch. 1129 00:54:11,690 --> 00:54:14,210 NARRATOR: He sued the FBI in court. 1130 00:54:14,210 --> 00:54:17,020 Can you imagine how much that pissed Accardo off? 1131 00:54:17,020 --> 00:54:19,970 To bring that kind of public attention to the Outfit? 1132 00:54:19,970 --> 00:54:21,630 Are you kidding me? 1133 00:54:21,630 --> 00:54:25,810 To make matters worse, Sam got up and testified in open court. 1134 00:54:25,810 --> 00:54:28,920 But the FBI council who had the first opportunity to cross 1135 00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:35,190 examine him was so unprepared, it drove the FBI agents wild. 1136 00:54:35,190 --> 00:54:37,690 That the crazy head of the Outfit 1137 00:54:37,690 --> 00:54:39,720 put himself on the stand and no one 1138 00:54:39,720 --> 00:54:42,430 was prepared to ask a single question. 1139 00:54:42,430 --> 00:54:44,190 -And Sam found a lawyer who argued 1140 00:54:44,190 --> 00:54:46,690 that case persuasively in court. 1141 00:54:46,690 --> 00:54:48,260 To me that was genius. 1142 00:54:48,260 --> 00:54:51,140 Sam used his own secret photos and films 1143 00:54:51,140 --> 00:54:54,390 to prove that the technique of lockstep surveillance involving 1144 00:54:54,390 --> 00:54:58,350 an intrusive 24 hour presence in the subject's life 1145 00:54:58,350 --> 00:55:01,490 was more harassment than investigation. 1146 00:55:01,490 --> 00:55:04,720 This was the kind of public crap against legal authority 1147 00:55:04,720 --> 00:55:07,210 that Accardo and others really hated. 1148 00:55:07,210 --> 00:55:08,910 -Sam won that case. 1149 00:55:08,910 --> 00:55:11,520 The lockstep surveillance case was 1150 00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:14,070 an infringement on his constitutional right. 1151 00:55:16,780 --> 00:55:19,280 NARRATOR: In 1959, Sam threw his oldest 1152 00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:21,360 daughter the wedding of a lifetime. 1153 00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,160 Not since the Capone days had any Chicago 1154 00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:27,120 gangster thrown such a lavish affair. 1155 00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,410 FRANCINE GIANCANA: It was at the La Salle Hotel 1156 00:55:29,410 --> 00:55:34,220 and all these people were there. 1157 00:55:34,220 --> 00:55:37,020 NARRATOR: There are more than 400 guests including 1158 00:55:37,020 --> 00:55:40,420 Sam's associates and old friends from "the Patch," 1159 00:55:40,420 --> 00:55:42,830 and a few uninvited and unwelcome members 1160 00:55:42,830 --> 00:55:45,170 of the press and law enforcement. 1161 00:55:45,170 --> 00:55:48,500 Sam left the reception to find a Trib reporter and two 1162 00:55:48,500 --> 00:55:52,130 federal agents taking notes from a guest list that included 1163 00:55:52,130 --> 00:55:56,690 names like Tony Accardo, Chuck English, and on and on. 1164 00:55:56,690 --> 00:55:58,740 It was a list of the names that could supply 1165 00:55:58,740 --> 00:56:01,760 the feds with a blueprint of the outfit. 1166 00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:05,030 Sam got physical, shoving them away from the list. 1167 00:56:05,030 --> 00:56:07,650 That opened him up for getting served with a subpoena 1168 00:56:07,650 --> 00:56:11,380 to appear before the McClellan committee on organized crime. 1169 00:56:11,380 --> 00:56:13,300 Once again, Accardo was not amused. 1170 00:56:17,270 --> 00:56:20,210 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Sam had a long reach. 1171 00:56:20,210 --> 00:56:24,060 Sam had relationships with bosses of other crime families 1172 00:56:24,060 --> 00:56:27,170 in a way that none of his other predecessors did. 1173 00:56:27,170 --> 00:56:30,080 NARRATOR: As soon as Sam took over Outfit operations, 1174 00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,820 he started thinking beyond Chicago. 1175 00:56:32,820 --> 00:56:35,670 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Sam was looking to extend the Outfit's 1176 00:56:35,670 --> 00:56:39,200 operations beyond the city and he did. 1177 00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:42,800 NARRATOR: The Outfit became very powerful in Hollywood 1178 00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,300 through control of all the labor unions. 1179 00:56:45,300 --> 00:56:46,600 JOHN J. BINDER: The Outfit was actually 1180 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,740 able to blackmail, or extort money 1181 00:56:48,740 --> 00:56:51,420 from the major Hollywood film producers. 1182 00:56:51,420 --> 00:56:52,890 Normally viewed to be very powerful 1183 00:56:52,890 --> 00:56:55,740 individuals, but they caved in and paid up 1184 00:56:55,740 --> 00:56:58,830 because the Outfit got them by the throat. 1185 00:56:58,830 --> 00:57:00,920 They could shut down the movie making 1186 00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:02,340 industry in the United States. 1187 00:57:02,340 --> 00:57:04,240 Literally could shut it down. 1188 00:57:04,240 --> 00:57:06,820 And so they started the movie studios, made millions 1189 00:57:06,820 --> 00:57:10,370 of dollars from that, but the movie studios also 1190 00:57:10,370 --> 00:57:13,800 profited because they had had no labor problems 1191 00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:15,110 as long as the Outfit was there. 1192 00:57:19,810 --> 00:57:21,340 NARRATOR: The Outfit became a force 1193 00:57:21,340 --> 00:57:23,910 to be reckoned with in Las Vegas. 1194 00:57:23,910 --> 00:57:25,800 FRANCINE GIANCANA: I mean I spent more time in Las Vegas 1195 00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:27,470 than I did at home. 1196 00:57:27,470 --> 00:57:29,140 I mean since I was eight years old, 1197 00:57:29,140 --> 00:57:32,190 I was in Vegas so many times, I don't-- I 1198 00:57:32,190 --> 00:57:34,100 thought I lived there. 1199 00:57:34,100 --> 00:57:38,170 -The Outfit used the [INAUDIBLE] pension 1200 00:57:38,170 --> 00:57:41,930 fund to build one of the casinos in Las Vegas. 1201 00:57:41,930 --> 00:57:45,460 -Seems like the Outfit gets into Las Vegas in a very, very big 1202 00:57:45,460 --> 00:57:48,280 way, and they ultimately become [INAUDIBLE] 1203 00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:50,750 crime family, the biggest player in Las Vegas. 1204 00:57:50,750 --> 00:57:53,460 -When the outfit has a Casino, they're not only 1205 00:57:53,460 --> 00:57:56,280 controlling the casino, they're not only taking a skim, 1206 00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:00,000 but they're venturing out into many other ancillary businesses 1207 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:00,880 that they're controlling. 1208 00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:02,150 JOHN J. BINDER: Vegas was an open city 1209 00:58:02,150 --> 00:58:03,530 declared by the commission. 1210 00:58:03,530 --> 00:58:05,160 Any [INAUDIBLE] crime family could 1211 00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:09,210 go in there so it wasn't just Chicago. 1212 00:58:09,210 --> 00:58:13,320 NARRATOR: In 1955, Accardo and the Outfit financed the Riviera 1213 00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:16,960 to the tune of $10 mil using a group of Miami investors 1214 00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:18,340 as fronts. 1215 00:58:18,340 --> 00:58:20,170 Then they got the Stardust through the efforts 1216 00:58:20,170 --> 00:58:22,860 of Sam's man, Johnny Roselli. 1217 00:58:22,860 --> 00:58:27,200 The Stardust paid off with $400,000 a month to the Outfit. 1218 00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,870 Then the Tropicana, the most luxurious casino on the strip, 1219 00:58:30,870 --> 00:58:33,950 fell under Outfit control when Ricardo got his hands 1220 00:58:33,950 --> 00:58:36,460 on the [INAUDIBLE] pension fund. 1221 00:58:36,460 --> 00:58:38,900 Sam, Accardo, and Roselli brokered a deal 1222 00:58:38,900 --> 00:58:41,550 with the Desert Inn's [INAUDIBLE] and the New York 1223 00:58:41,550 --> 00:58:45,620 families to run the Desert Inn, the Stardust, and the Riviera. 1224 00:58:45,620 --> 00:58:48,760 All three major casinos on the strip. 1225 00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:53,250 Over the next decade, the outfit added the Hacienda, the Sahara, 1226 00:58:53,250 --> 00:58:56,220 and the biggest downtown Casino, the Fremont, 1227 00:58:56,220 --> 00:58:58,090 to its Vegas holdings. 1228 00:58:58,090 --> 00:59:01,260 The Vegas skim brought millions of dollars in for the Outfit 1229 00:59:01,260 --> 00:59:01,960 every month. 1230 00:59:06,150 --> 00:59:09,070 In Havana, Cuba, the outfit had a sweetheart deal 1231 00:59:09,070 --> 00:59:12,790 with the local government to run casinos at a great profit. 1232 00:59:12,790 --> 00:59:17,020 Cuba's US-backed military leader, Fulgencio Batista, 1233 00:59:17,020 --> 00:59:20,320 appointed New York commission mastermind, Meyer Lansky, 1234 00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:23,590 as the adviser on gambling reform. 1235 00:59:23,590 --> 00:59:28,010 In 1952, Lansky offered the previous Cuban president 1236 00:59:28,010 --> 00:59:31,710 a bribe of $250,000 to step down so 1237 00:59:31,710 --> 00:59:34,040 that Batista could take office. 1238 00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:38,000 In return, Batista offered Lansky a government match 1239 00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,780 for any investment over $1 million in a Casino. 1240 00:59:41,780 --> 00:59:44,690 Florida crime boss, Santo Trafficante, 1241 00:59:44,690 --> 00:59:47,110 ran the Outfit's gambling empire there. 1242 00:59:47,110 --> 00:59:49,620 He and Sam's man, Johnny Roselli, 1243 00:59:49,620 --> 00:59:51,680 were partners in managing the highly 1244 00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:55,400 profitable Sans Souci Casino Resort. 1245 00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,890 Havana became a playground for Sam, 1246 00:59:57,890 --> 00:59:59,120 and a big concern of Accardo's. 1247 01:00:02,630 --> 01:00:04,870 But there was trouble on the horizon, 1248 01:00:04,870 --> 01:00:08,130 and a man named Fidel Castro. 1249 01:00:08,130 --> 01:00:11,560 Born on a Cuban sugar plantation, gifted in academics 1250 01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:14,850 and sports, Castro was both a lawyer and a pitcher 1251 01:00:14,850 --> 01:00:17,960 good enough to be scouted for American baseball teams. 1252 01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:19,650 But it was in the field of politics 1253 01:00:19,650 --> 01:00:21,540 that he really made his mark. 1254 01:00:21,540 --> 01:00:23,320 Connected with violent demonstrations 1255 01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,670 against the government from his college days, 1256 01:00:25,670 --> 01:00:28,690 Castro was an anti-American nationalist 1257 01:00:28,690 --> 01:00:31,550 and a family friend of Batista. 1258 01:00:31,550 --> 01:00:35,770 But when Batista assumed the Cuban presidency in 1952, 1259 01:00:35,770 --> 01:00:39,120 Castro went underground and became a revolutionary. 1260 01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:43,050 In 1959, just when Meyer Lansky was celebrating the $3 million 1261 01:00:43,050 --> 01:00:46,520 he made during his first operational year of his casino, 1262 01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:49,130 the Nationale, Castro led a worker's 1263 01:00:49,130 --> 01:00:51,360 revolt that became a revolution. 1264 01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:54,380 Ousting Batista, forming a communist government, 1265 01:00:54,380 --> 01:00:57,310 and nationalizing the casinos. 1266 01:00:57,310 --> 01:00:59,590 This was bad for the Outfit. 1267 01:00:59,590 --> 01:01:01,600 One minute they were running the place, 1268 01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:04,670 and the next thing Sam knew, Santo Trafficante 1269 01:01:04,670 --> 01:01:06,480 was in a Cuban jail. 1270 01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:08,560 He called up an old acquaintance from "the Patch," 1271 01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:12,350 to go down there and get Trafficante out of jail. 1272 01:01:12,350 --> 01:01:14,570 A guy named Jack Ruby. 1273 01:01:14,570 --> 01:01:17,420 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Jacob Rubenstein grew up a block away from me. 1274 01:01:17,420 --> 01:01:19,390 He lived on the same block, actually. 1275 01:01:19,390 --> 01:01:24,000 Jack Ruby was low level, Outfit associate, 1276 01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:27,090 worked with Jewish members of the outfit 1277 01:01:27,090 --> 01:01:29,370 controlled gambling on the West Side. 1278 01:01:29,370 --> 01:01:31,510 JOHN J. BINDER: Jack Ruby comes up-- 1279 01:01:31,510 --> 01:01:34,200 as a kid he grows up around Maxwell Street, 1280 01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:35,270 just out of Taylor Street. 1281 01:01:35,270 --> 01:01:38,320 You know, he's from the old quote, "Jewish Ghetto"-- 1282 01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:41,360 Ghetto just meaning an ethnic neighborhood-- inside Chicago, 1283 01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:46,430 and he ends up as a gambler down in Dallas. 1284 01:01:46,430 --> 01:01:47,640 Very low level guy. 1285 01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:50,600 NARRATOR: By this time, Ruby ran a strip club in Miami 1286 01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:52,530 and often went to Havana on Sam's 1287 01:01:52,530 --> 01:01:55,190 behalf to handle Cuban relations. 1288 01:01:55,190 --> 01:01:58,920 Ruby got Trafficante out of jail and back to the US. 1289 01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:02,200 Sam would remember Ruby for that giving him a piece of one 1290 01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:05,340 casino and keeping him in mind for future operations. 1291 01:02:11,210 --> 01:02:14,570 [MUSIC PLAYING] 1292 01:02:19,510 --> 01:02:22,210 NICHOLAS CELOZZI: One time he was watching these guys 1293 01:02:22,210 --> 01:02:25,660 throwing dice in an alley and my father was watching it. 1294 01:02:25,660 --> 01:02:30,870 And he said that an unmarked squad car came pulling up 1295 01:02:30,870 --> 01:02:34,870 and there was a detective that came out in plain clothes 1296 01:02:34,870 --> 01:02:37,080 and then there was a police officer 1297 01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:38,970 that was in his uniform. 1298 01:02:38,970 --> 01:02:40,320 And he was trying to break up the game. 1299 01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:43,930 He said, "Tell everybody get up and line up against the wall." 1300 01:02:43,930 --> 01:02:47,420 Apparently then Sam was running out of the building 1301 01:02:47,420 --> 01:02:49,510 and my father was watching, and they 1302 01:02:49,510 --> 01:02:52,060 said they got into this discussion. 1303 01:02:52,060 --> 01:02:56,080 And Sam got very angry and he grabbed the cop 1304 01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:58,450 and started punching him. 1305 01:02:58,450 --> 01:02:59,200 Punching the cop. 1306 01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:02,110 Punching the cop, kicked him, threw him onto the ground, 1307 01:03:02,110 --> 01:03:04,110 grabbed him and said, "Don't you ever bother my game again." 1308 01:03:04,110 --> 01:03:06,180 Threw him back in his car and they left. 1309 01:03:06,180 --> 01:03:13,570 -The late '50s- '58, '59, '60-- when 1310 01:03:13,570 --> 01:03:16,990 I realized that he was different. 1311 01:03:16,990 --> 01:03:17,960 Extremely different. 1312 01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:20,210 That there was extreme power. 1313 01:03:20,210 --> 01:03:22,180 -I mean, I met them all, really. 1314 01:03:22,180 --> 01:03:24,010 Just a slew of them. 1315 01:03:24,010 --> 01:03:27,340 [INAUDIBLE], Frank Sinatra, [INAUDIBLE] Martin, 1316 01:03:27,340 --> 01:03:28,440 [INAUDIBLE]. 1317 01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:30,940 It just goes on and on. 1318 01:03:30,940 --> 01:03:33,830 MR. X: Sam was loved by every [INAUDIBLE] in the country. 1319 01:03:33,830 --> 01:03:36,980 NARRATOR: Sam enjoy hanging out with some pretty famous people. 1320 01:03:36,980 --> 01:03:40,640 He and old pal, Frank Sinatra, had some great times together. 1321 01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:42,920 Like when they got a little loaded at the Fountain Blue 1322 01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:46,840 Hotel and went around tossing cherry bombs on the yachts. 1323 01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:50,440 Tony Accardo watched antics like this and just fumed. 1324 01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:52,800 BONNIE GIANCANA: I think if they didn't know people were owning 1325 01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:56,640 these hotels he might of been thrown out. 1326 01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:58,820 -Sam had a little bit too much wine 1327 01:03:58,820 --> 01:04:02,510 and Sam announced, "I can call Frank Sinatra right now 1328 01:04:02,510 --> 01:04:04,360 and that son of a bitch will call me right back," 1329 01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:07,090 and they said, oh, sure, Sam. 1330 01:04:07,090 --> 01:04:09,360 You're full of crap. 1331 01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:11,180 Butch, go dial the number! 1332 01:04:11,180 --> 01:04:14,640 And sure enough, he had Frank Sinatra on the phone 1333 01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:16,990 and he's passing the phone around to everybody. 1334 01:04:21,150 --> 01:04:23,800 NARRATOR: Sam and Frank hung out a lot in Vegas. 1335 01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,160 Sinatra introduced him to starlets. 1336 01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:29,090 There was another guy Frank did the same thing for. 1337 01:04:29,090 --> 01:04:32,620 A guy about to run for president, Jack Kennedy. 1338 01:04:32,620 --> 01:04:36,990 In fact, Sinatra introduced both pals-- Kennedy and Giancana-- 1339 01:04:36,990 --> 01:04:40,570 to an ex-girlfriend named Judith Campbell Exner. 1340 01:04:40,570 --> 01:04:43,710 Soon, both Sam and Kennedy were sleeping with her. 1341 01:04:43,710 --> 01:04:47,130 In 1988, Judith Campbell Exner claimed 1342 01:04:47,130 --> 01:04:50,470 that she had been a courier between Kennedy and Giancana, 1343 01:04:50,470 --> 01:04:52,080 and even gone so far as to arrange 1344 01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:54,270 several meetings between them. 1345 01:04:54,270 --> 01:04:55,620 Was it true? 1346 01:04:55,620 --> 01:04:59,770 Did Sam and Kennedy know that they were both sharing a woman? 1347 01:04:59,770 --> 01:05:01,380 Maybe not. 1348 01:05:01,380 --> 01:05:03,630 But Sam knew Kennedy's dad. 1349 01:05:03,630 --> 01:05:08,160 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Joe Kennedy, much older than Sam, supposedly 1350 01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:12,880 members of organized crime saved Joe Kennedy from assassination 1351 01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:13,780 a couple of times. 1352 01:05:13,780 --> 01:05:16,570 Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger. 1353 01:05:16,570 --> 01:05:17,920 There's no mistake about that. 1354 01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:20,760 He was in the alcohol business when it was illegal 1355 01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:22,200 and when it was legal. 1356 01:05:22,200 --> 01:05:24,820 So there's no question that he was involved 1357 01:05:24,820 --> 01:05:28,750 during and after prohibition and that he had contact 1358 01:05:28,750 --> 01:05:31,260 with members of organized crime. 1359 01:05:31,260 --> 01:05:33,910 NARRATOR: While Outfit guys like Sam were always on the outs 1360 01:05:33,910 --> 01:05:37,540 with society, Joe Kennedy had managed a transition for him 1361 01:05:37,540 --> 01:05:40,280 and his family from bootlegger to [INAUDIBLE]. 1362 01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:41,850 ROBERT M. LOMBARDO: Was the Kennedy fortune 1363 01:05:41,850 --> 01:05:44,280 based on the money they made during prohibition? 1364 01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:45,160 Sure it was. 1365 01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:47,670 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Joe Kennedy ran afoul of the purple gang 1366 01:05:47,670 --> 01:05:48,370 in Detroit. 1367 01:05:48,370 --> 01:05:52,800 There was a lot of pass through from Canada of sugar 1368 01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:57,520 and alcohol, and supposedly Joe Kennedy 1369 01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:00,590 stepped on somebody's toes in Detroit. 1370 01:06:00,590 --> 01:06:04,030 The Italians in New York stepped in and saved Joe Kennedy. 1371 01:06:04,030 --> 01:06:05,600 NARRATOR: Sam was credited by some 1372 01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:09,740 with saving Joe Kennedy's life on another occasion. 1373 01:06:09,740 --> 01:06:11,430 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Another story is that Joe 1374 01:06:11,430 --> 01:06:14,290 Kennedy insulted Frank Costello. 1375 01:06:14,290 --> 01:06:16,270 Frank Costello was going to have Joe Kennedy killed. 1376 01:06:16,270 --> 01:06:17,890 He contacted Sam. 1377 01:06:17,890 --> 01:06:21,630 Sam saved Joe Kennedy. 1378 01:06:21,630 --> 01:06:25,460 NARRATOR: In 1959, Joe Kennedy wanted major help from Sam 1379 01:06:25,460 --> 01:06:28,070 in getting his son elected president. 1380 01:06:28,070 --> 01:06:31,100 He knew Sam might not be so approachable, mostly 1381 01:06:31,100 --> 01:06:35,300 because Joe's other son, Bobby, was giving him holy hell. 1382 01:06:35,300 --> 01:06:38,740 Humiliating him on the McClellan committee hearings. 1383 01:06:38,740 --> 01:06:40,710 QUESTIONER: And would you tell us about the vice operations 1384 01:06:40,710 --> 01:06:42,950 down in Lake County, Indiana? 1385 01:06:42,950 --> 01:06:46,220 -Would you explain that because I honestly believe [INAUDIBLE]. 1386 01:06:46,220 --> 01:06:49,330 QUESTIONER: Would you tell us whether if you have opposition 1387 01:06:49,330 --> 01:06:51,060 from anybody that you dispose of them 1388 01:06:51,060 --> 01:06:52,940 by having them stuffed in a trunk? [INAUDIBLE], 1389 01:06:52,940 --> 01:06:53,930 Mr. Giancana? 1390 01:06:57,270 --> 01:06:59,640 NARRATOR: Joe's daughter had married Rat Pack member Peter 1391 01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:03,380 Lawford and Joe knew that his son John had met Sinatra 1392 01:07:03,380 --> 01:07:07,410 through Lawford and shown him quite a time in Vegas. 1393 01:07:07,410 --> 01:07:10,420 He also knew that Sinatra wanted Jack to be president 1394 01:07:10,420 --> 01:07:13,640 because Sinatra wanted a president for a pal. 1395 01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:15,240 And he also knew that Sinatra had 1396 01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:18,830 a close friendship with the Chicago boss. 1397 01:07:18,830 --> 01:07:22,730 So Joe asked Sinatra to Hyannis Port for a meeting. 1398 01:07:22,730 --> 01:07:25,260 In the last year of his life, Sinatra publicly 1399 01:07:25,260 --> 01:07:27,530 admitted through his daughter Tina 1400 01:07:27,530 --> 01:07:30,320 that this meeting indeed took place. 1401 01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:33,440 Joe asked Frank to reach out to Sam Giancana, 1402 01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:37,280 to get Sam to use his resources and influence over unions 1403 01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:41,630 and polling districts to get Jack Kennedy elected president. 1404 01:07:41,630 --> 01:07:45,590 Some people say Sinatra ranged for Sam and old man Kennedy 1405 01:07:45,590 --> 01:07:47,680 to meet face-to-face. 1406 01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:49,680 -At the height of the Outfit's political power, 1407 01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:52,990 they controlled a block of boards in the city 1408 01:07:52,990 --> 01:07:54,320 called the West Side block. 1409 01:07:54,320 --> 01:08:00,420 The West Side block was part of the Democratic machine. 1410 01:08:00,420 --> 01:08:02,390 NARRATOR: And what would be in it for Sam? 1411 01:08:02,390 --> 01:08:05,140 Well, for one thing, Bobby would lay off. 1412 01:08:05,140 --> 01:08:08,120 The new president would focus on the Soviet Union 1413 01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:11,950 and lay off organized crime, and Sam could operate freely 1414 01:08:11,950 --> 01:08:14,500 knowing that he owned the White House. 1415 01:08:14,500 --> 01:08:17,040 Something about that sounded good to Sam. 1416 01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:20,060 -It's nice to have a president in your back pocket, you know? 1417 01:08:20,060 --> 01:08:21,190 I would assume that's how he felt. 1418 01:08:21,190 --> 01:08:24,660 ARTHUR LURIGIO: There was a tradition of organized crime 1419 01:08:24,660 --> 01:08:28,190 corrupting politics in Chicago dating 1420 01:08:28,190 --> 01:08:31,200 back to the late 19th century. 1421 01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:33,660 In a sense, Joe Kennedy challenged Sam 1422 01:08:33,660 --> 01:08:36,650 to a test of his political muscle, 1423 01:08:36,650 --> 01:08:39,640 and Sam rose to the challenge. 1424 01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:41,960 NARRATOR: Sam put people in Springfield 1425 01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:45,610 who would ensure that legislation wouldn't pass. 1426 01:08:45,610 --> 01:08:48,170 If it was unfavorable to the business of organized crime. 1427 01:08:48,170 --> 01:08:50,650 So Sam Giancana was very political. 1428 01:08:50,650 --> 01:08:52,120 MR. X: Sam's involvement with the Kennedys-- 1429 01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:55,330 the deal that I heard from people that I believe would 1430 01:08:55,330 --> 01:08:58,270 know-- is that their job here in Chicago 1431 01:08:58,270 --> 01:08:59,870 was to carry-- make sure that they 1432 01:08:59,870 --> 01:09:01,140 got the vote from Illinois. 1433 01:09:01,140 --> 01:09:03,710 From what I heard, that was what carried 1434 01:09:03,710 --> 01:09:06,140 Kennedy into the presidency. 1435 01:09:06,140 --> 01:09:08,640 NARRATOR: On election day, 70 million votes 1436 01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:10,470 were cast across the country. 1437 01:09:10,470 --> 01:09:12,470 Jack Kennedy won the popular election 1438 01:09:12,470 --> 01:09:17,920 by 113,554 of those votes. 1439 01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:22,220 He won Chicago's Cook County by a margin four times larger. 1440 01:09:22,220 --> 01:09:25,160 In Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, and Nevada, 1441 01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:27,830 Kennedy had very close victories. 1442 01:09:27,830 --> 01:09:30,620 These were all states where Momo's Outfit had union 1443 01:09:30,620 --> 01:09:34,790 control, and they yielded the 63 electoral votes that 1444 01:09:34,790 --> 01:09:38,860 kept Richard Nixon from being elected. 1445 01:09:38,860 --> 01:09:42,610 -Supposedly the vote in Chicago brought him over the threshold. 1446 01:09:42,610 --> 01:09:45,940 He won by one of the smallest pluralities 1447 01:09:45,940 --> 01:09:48,640 in presidential history. 1448 01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:53,200 [MUSIC PLAYING] 1449 01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:54,730 NARRATOR: It was right around that time 1450 01:09:54,730 --> 01:09:57,000 that Sam, in spite of a lot of fooling 1451 01:09:57,000 --> 01:10:01,160 around-- fell in love for the second time in his life. 1452 01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:03,590 FRANCINE GIANCANA: He had a lot of people that-- women that 1453 01:10:03,590 --> 01:10:07,180 would come in and, you know, visit and whatever-- 1454 01:10:07,180 --> 01:10:10,400 [INAUDIBLE] and keep him company. 1455 01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:14,730 [INAUDIBLE] well, then Phyllis was basically out of state, 1456 01:10:14,730 --> 01:10:17,710 so it was just a little different. 1457 01:10:17,710 --> 01:10:20,860 He had the license to do whatever he wanted, 1458 01:10:20,860 --> 01:10:22,320 and I have to admire him for that. 1459 01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:25,720 But he never even-- he never got married. 1460 01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:27,930 NARRATOR: Phyllis McGuire sang with a popular trio 1461 01:10:27,930 --> 01:10:30,180 called The McGuire Sisters. 1462 01:10:30,180 --> 01:10:32,770 When they played Vegas, the sisters liked to party 1463 01:10:32,770 --> 01:10:34,410 and play the tables. 1464 01:10:34,410 --> 01:10:37,460 That's where Sam first cast his eyes on Phyllis. 1465 01:10:37,460 --> 01:10:43,190 She was tall, ravishy, and $100,000 deep in gambling debt. 1466 01:10:43,190 --> 01:10:45,770 Sam smooth-talked her, but it wasn't so much 1467 01:10:45,770 --> 01:10:49,030 what he said that impressed her as what he did. 1468 01:10:49,030 --> 01:10:50,820 He took care of her debt. 1469 01:10:50,820 --> 01:10:53,410 Not by paying it, but by telling the Cleveland 1470 01:10:53,410 --> 01:10:57,040 hood who owned the Casino to eat it. 1471 01:10:57,040 --> 01:11:00,430 It was the beginning of a close, devoted relationship that would 1472 01:11:00,430 --> 01:11:03,060 pretty much go on the rest of Sam's life. 1473 01:11:03,060 --> 01:11:04,890 MR. X: He was crazy about her. 1474 01:11:04,890 --> 01:11:06,020 Make no bones about [INAUDIBLE]. 1475 01:11:06,020 --> 01:11:07,520 He loved that woman. 1476 01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:10,120 -I liked it because it made him happy. 1477 01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:14,630 He was happy and he's-- and she was wonderful to be around. 1478 01:11:14,630 --> 01:11:16,890 She was wonderful to all of us. 1479 01:11:16,890 --> 01:11:24,150 It was a very good relationship and it lasted a long time. 1480 01:11:24,150 --> 01:11:26,600 FRANCINE GIANCANA: She was like a spitfire. 1481 01:11:26,600 --> 01:11:33,100 I mean she was just so-- she lit a fire, you know, 1482 01:11:33,100 --> 01:11:36,140 when she just walked in-- you know what I mean? 1483 01:11:36,140 --> 01:11:42,580 And just put a lot of enthusiasm in the company. 1484 01:11:42,580 --> 01:11:44,110 -She truly cared about him. 1485 01:11:44,110 --> 01:11:46,090 NARRATOR: The McGuire sisters were playing games 1486 01:11:46,090 --> 01:11:49,310 all over the world and Sam would take off of with them. 1487 01:11:49,310 --> 01:11:51,100 In London, a photographer got a shot 1488 01:11:51,100 --> 01:11:53,280 of Sam partying with the sisters that 1489 01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:55,700 made the papers all over the world. 1490 01:11:55,700 --> 01:11:59,450 Accardo and some of the other Outfit players didn't like it. 1491 01:11:59,450 --> 01:12:02,470 See, more and more, Sam was leaving Butch in charge 1492 01:12:02,470 --> 01:12:04,780 of the Chicago rackets while he chased 1493 01:12:04,780 --> 01:12:07,440 Phyllis across the ocean. 1494 01:12:07,440 --> 01:12:11,250 MR. X: [INAUDIBLE] they were a little upset about it. 1495 01:12:11,250 --> 01:12:14,020 That [INAUDIBLE] you know, getting 1496 01:12:14,020 --> 01:12:15,560 a little too Hollywood for them. 1497 01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:18,050 NARRATOR: In late 1961, Sam and Phyllis 1498 01:12:18,050 --> 01:12:20,490 had a public encounter with Agent Roemer 1499 01:12:20,490 --> 01:12:24,680 and his team of FBI men at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. 1500 01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:27,510 -My understanding is Giancana was at the airport to meet her. 1501 01:12:27,510 --> 01:12:30,160 To pick her up. 1502 01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:32,280 Agent from the FBI here in Chicago 1503 01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:33,460 had also gone to the airport. 1504 01:12:33,460 --> 01:12:35,550 They were armed with a grand jury subpoena 1505 01:12:35,550 --> 01:12:37,810 which they planned on serving her. 1506 01:12:37,810 --> 01:12:41,240 She had apparently been able to avoid serving the subpoena 1507 01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:42,390 whether it was intentional or just 1508 01:12:42,390 --> 01:12:43,870 because of her travel schedule. 1509 01:12:43,870 --> 01:12:45,000 I'm not sure. 1510 01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:48,660 But there was a confrontation at the airport between Bill Roemer 1511 01:12:48,660 --> 01:12:49,720 and some of the other agents. 1512 01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:51,440 NARRATOR: The agents took Phyllis aside and gave 1513 01:12:51,440 --> 01:12:54,780 her choice between going into a private room at the airport 1514 01:12:54,780 --> 01:12:58,680 and answering some questions, or going downtown and answering 1515 01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:01,560 some questions in front of a grand jury. 1516 01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:03,660 She said she'd cooperate. 1517 01:13:03,660 --> 01:13:09,410 -She was very upset over the publicity that was given to her 1518 01:13:09,410 --> 01:13:12,870 because she had now been linked to what many consider 1519 01:13:12,870 --> 01:13:15,690 to be the head of the Chicago organized crime family. 1520 01:13:15,690 --> 01:13:18,570 NARRATOR: Sam saw her going into the room with the agents 1521 01:13:18,570 --> 01:13:21,220 and just went ballistic. 1522 01:13:21,220 --> 01:13:25,840 -Giancana, on the other hand, was enraged over the incident. 1523 01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:30,330 That is where his level of, what I would call hatred, 1524 01:13:30,330 --> 01:13:32,550 for the agents that were investigating him really 1525 01:13:32,550 --> 01:13:33,900 reached its zenith. 1526 01:13:33,900 --> 01:13:36,450 And it's my understanding there was a verbal shouting 1527 01:13:36,450 --> 01:13:41,090 match in the public concourse area at O'Hare Airport in front 1528 01:13:41,090 --> 01:13:43,530 of hundreds of people that were coming 1529 01:13:43,530 --> 01:13:45,160 and going from their flight. 1530 01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:47,160 BILL ROEMER: He started calling me all kinds of names 1531 01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:51,450 in the American Airlines concourse at O'Hare in Chicago 1532 01:13:51,450 --> 01:13:55,190 and I just was not used to that kind of abuse. 1533 01:13:55,190 --> 01:13:57,140 And so I finally called everybody around. 1534 01:13:57,140 --> 01:13:59,900 I said, "Come around and see this piece of scum. 1535 01:13:59,900 --> 01:14:01,300 This is Sam Giancana. 1536 01:14:01,300 --> 01:14:04,110 He's the boss of the Chicago mob. 1537 01:14:04,110 --> 01:14:07,270 You people are so lucky you can pass through Chicago. 1538 01:14:07,270 --> 01:14:09,810 We have to live with this piece of slime. 1539 01:14:09,810 --> 01:14:12,140 Just look at this jerk." 1540 01:14:12,140 --> 01:14:15,730 He never had been talked to just as I had never been talked to. 1541 01:14:15,730 --> 01:14:18,290 He had never been-- the successor to Al Capone-- 1542 01:14:18,290 --> 01:14:20,830 and he bumped up against me and he said, "Roemer"-- he said, 1543 01:14:20,830 --> 01:14:23,470 "You got a fire tonight that's never going to go out. 1544 01:14:23,470 --> 01:14:26,460 We'll get you if it's the last thing we ever do." 1545 01:14:26,460 --> 01:14:29,540 NARRATOR: It was this occasion, more than any other, that 1546 01:14:29,540 --> 01:14:32,560 really rankled low profile Tony Accardo, 1547 01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:34,940 and set him against Sam in ways that 1548 01:14:34,940 --> 01:14:38,430 will become more and more of a problem. 1549 01:14:38,430 --> 01:14:41,770 [MUSIC PLAYING] 1550 01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:49,510 ARTHUR LURIGIO: That's one of the most sensational stories 1551 01:14:49,510 --> 01:14:53,510 in the history of organized crime. 1552 01:14:53,510 --> 01:14:56,830 NARRATOR: After the Cuban revolution in 1959, 1553 01:14:56,830 --> 01:15:01,030 Castro closed the casinos and sent the gangsters back home. 1554 01:15:01,030 --> 01:15:03,670 He allied himself with the Soviet Union 1555 01:15:03,670 --> 01:15:06,510 against the United States, bringing the threat 1556 01:15:06,510 --> 01:15:10,900 of nuclear war dangerously close to American shores. 1557 01:15:10,900 --> 01:15:14,950 Someone, somewhere in the Central Intelligence Agency 1558 01:15:14,950 --> 01:15:19,540 got the odd notion to form an unusual alliance. 1559 01:15:19,540 --> 01:15:21,010 -This is so incredible to me. 1560 01:15:21,010 --> 01:15:23,700 We don't need the sensationalize this. 1561 01:15:23,700 --> 01:15:27,660 In and of itself, it is highly sensational 1562 01:15:27,660 --> 01:15:31,070 to imagine that the federal government was cooperating 1563 01:15:31,070 --> 01:15:34,240 with organized crime for political reasons. 1564 01:15:34,240 --> 01:15:37,370 NARRATOR: Robert Maheu was a private investigator and ex-FBI 1565 01:15:37,370 --> 01:15:39,890 agent with a history of contracting out 1566 01:15:39,890 --> 01:15:43,730 to handle delicate matters for the CIA having secretly been 1567 01:15:43,730 --> 01:15:47,100 on the CIA payroll for about six years. 1568 01:15:47,100 --> 01:15:50,420 He was approached by Colonel Sheffield Edwards, director 1569 01:15:50,420 --> 01:15:54,280 of CIA's office of security and deputy director of plans, 1570 01:15:54,280 --> 01:15:58,170 Richard M. [INAUDIBLE] Jr., to arrange with Sam Giancana 1571 01:15:58,170 --> 01:16:01,590 a contract hit on Fidel Castro. 1572 01:16:01,590 --> 01:16:03,790 ARTHUR LURIGIO: It made sense to the CIA-- 1573 01:16:03,790 --> 01:16:06,640 to Maheu and his contemporaries-- 1574 01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:10,540 to enlist members of organized crime to do their dirty work. 1575 01:16:10,540 --> 01:16:13,640 And this is-- this is incontrovertible because we 1576 01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:19,490 have declassified documents that recorded conversations 1577 01:16:19,490 --> 01:16:22,130 with Sam Giancana and the CIA. 1578 01:16:22,130 --> 01:16:24,580 We have Robert Maheu who was an utterly 1579 01:16:24,580 --> 01:16:28,570 credible witness to the event. 1580 01:16:28,570 --> 01:16:30,720 This isn't fanciful. 1581 01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:34,640 This is a documented and it's an incredible story. 1582 01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:38,620 The CIA, I think, pretty clearly, deciding well, 1583 01:16:38,620 --> 01:16:40,060 the hoods have been dispossessed. 1584 01:16:40,060 --> 01:16:41,420 All those casinos and things were 1585 01:16:41,420 --> 01:16:43,870 grabbed immediately and nationalized. 1586 01:16:43,870 --> 01:16:44,980 Taken away. 1587 01:16:44,980 --> 01:16:48,140 Let's go to the hoods and let's see if we can maybe enlist them 1588 01:16:48,140 --> 01:16:50,120 to do some of our dirty work for us 1589 01:16:50,120 --> 01:16:52,920 in the plot to kill Fidel Castro. 1590 01:16:52,920 --> 01:16:54,860 ARTHUR LURIGIO: That would give the government distance 1591 01:16:54,860 --> 01:16:57,340 from their assassination attempts. 1592 01:16:57,340 --> 01:16:59,990 A plausible deniability. 1593 01:16:59,990 --> 01:17:03,560 I think that they wanted to use organized 1594 01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:05,670 crime as a political tool. 1595 01:17:05,670 --> 01:17:08,640 They wanted-- they wanted the Outfit to be the fall guy. 1596 01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:10,700 They didn't want to get their fingerprints 1597 01:17:10,700 --> 01:17:11,650 anywhere near there. 1598 01:17:11,650 --> 01:17:14,160 [LOTTERY CHIMES] 1599 01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:17,590 NARRATOR: Maheu placed a call to Johnny Roselli, Sam's man 1600 01:17:17,590 --> 01:17:18,530 in Vegas. 1601 01:17:18,530 --> 01:17:22,140 Roselli, A.K.A. "Handsome Johnny," 1602 01:17:22,140 --> 01:17:24,270 used to run the Outfit's Hollywood action. 1603 01:17:24,270 --> 01:17:28,870 But now he was running Vegas, although the FBI files listed 1604 01:17:28,870 --> 01:17:32,230 him as a producer at Monogram Studios. 1605 01:17:32,230 --> 01:17:35,590 Roselli was more than a little freaked out by the request. 1606 01:17:35,590 --> 01:17:38,230 Maheu played on Johnny's patriotism, 1607 01:17:38,230 --> 01:17:41,380 telling him how Castro was another Hitler. 1608 01:17:41,380 --> 01:17:44,400 It turns out Johnny had a lot of patriotism 1609 01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:47,960 and he took the $150,000 offer to Sam. 1610 01:17:47,960 --> 01:17:50,950 Sam Giancana, with one eye on the millions that weren't 1611 01:17:50,950 --> 01:17:53,830 coming in from Cuba and one on the political power 1612 01:17:53,830 --> 01:17:57,240 inherent in a clandestine relationship with the CIA, 1613 01:17:57,240 --> 01:17:59,410 said, "Yeah, Johnny. 1614 01:17:59,410 --> 01:18:00,880 Let's do it for nothing." 1615 01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:02,920 ARTHUR LURIGIO: The Outfit has lots of connections that 1616 01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:05,970 are left over from the days in which they controlled 1617 01:18:05,970 --> 01:18:08,240 the casinos and other illegal activities-- 1618 01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:09,700 but they know people. 1619 01:18:09,700 --> 01:18:12,900 They can talk to people who maybe can get inside. 1620 01:18:12,900 --> 01:18:14,470 Can get at Castro. 1621 01:18:14,470 --> 01:18:17,820 NARRATOR: About a month later under the name Sam Gold, 1622 01:18:17,820 --> 01:18:21,650 Giancana met with Maheu face-to-face and informed him 1623 01:18:21,650 --> 01:18:24,360 that the Outfit and the United States government 1624 01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:27,980 were now officially partners in the assassination 1625 01:18:27,980 --> 01:18:30,270 attempt on Castro. 1626 01:18:30,270 --> 01:18:32,780 Giancana, Maheu, and Santo Trafficante 1627 01:18:32,780 --> 01:18:36,440 hold up at the Fountain Blue Hotel in Miami Beach 1628 01:18:36,440 --> 01:18:38,550 to plan the operation. 1629 01:18:38,550 --> 01:18:41,910 Being a rival agency, the CIA didn't know it, 1630 01:18:41,910 --> 01:18:45,210 but this meeting was taped by the FBI. 1631 01:18:45,210 --> 01:18:46,440 ARTHUR LURIGIO: We have documentation 1632 01:18:46,440 --> 01:18:50,310 that Maheu met with Sam Giancana and that they hatched 1633 01:18:50,310 --> 01:18:53,070 several plots to assassinate Castro. 1634 01:18:53,070 --> 01:18:56,130 [GUNSHOTS FIRNG] 1635 01:18:56,130 --> 01:18:59,790 Sam suggested a simple, effective mob hit. 1636 01:18:59,790 --> 01:19:02,100 A shooting, but the CIA thought that would 1637 01:19:02,100 --> 01:19:04,100 be difficult and dangerous. 1638 01:19:04,100 --> 01:19:07,170 The agents suggested poison pills, 1639 01:19:07,170 --> 01:19:09,700 which were delivered to Roselli for an undercover CIA 1640 01:19:09,700 --> 01:19:12,910 agent who had access to the premiere. 1641 01:19:12,910 --> 01:19:17,260 But before that plan could be executed, the agent was fired. 1642 01:19:17,260 --> 01:19:18,390 ARTHUR LURIGIO: The outfit came up 1643 01:19:18,390 --> 01:19:20,300 with a couple of different plans. 1644 01:19:20,300 --> 01:19:23,940 Hired-- hired and paid a person on the inside 1645 01:19:23,940 --> 01:19:27,070 to try to poison Castro. 1646 01:19:27,070 --> 01:19:31,890 They got Castro's mistress to come back to Cuba to try 1647 01:19:31,890 --> 01:19:33,780 to poison him, and the CIA came up 1648 01:19:33,780 --> 01:19:35,800 with a lot of-- what would seem almost 1649 01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,680 comical-- ways of killing Castro. 1650 01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:40,400 The exploding cigar. 1651 01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:44,060 But Castro supposedly had himself well insulated. 1652 01:19:46,620 --> 01:19:48,160 NARRATOR: Giancana decided to give Maheu 1653 01:19:48,160 --> 01:19:51,590 a bizarre and ill-advised loyalty test. 1654 01:19:51,590 --> 01:19:54,080 Sam had heard rumors that Phyllis McGuire was having 1655 01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:58,150 an affair with comedian Dan Rowan of Rowan and Martin. 1656 01:19:58,150 --> 01:20:00,630 He asked Maheu and the CIA to plant 1657 01:20:00,630 --> 01:20:04,110 a bug in Dan Rowan's Vegas hotel room. 1658 01:20:04,110 --> 01:20:06,250 They agreed to do it, fearful of losing 1659 01:20:06,250 --> 01:20:09,570 Sam's focus on the Castro job. 1660 01:20:09,570 --> 01:20:12,520 The man installing the equipment got caught by the Las Vegas 1661 01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:16,020 police who turned him over to the FBI, 1662 01:20:16,020 --> 01:20:19,310 and that's how J. Edgar Hoover learned that the CIA had 1663 01:20:19,310 --> 01:20:23,630 contracted with Giancana from transcripts of the FBI wiretap 1664 01:20:23,630 --> 01:20:26,810 tapes that he himself had sanctioned. 1665 01:20:26,810 --> 01:20:29,640 He was furious, and so was his justice 1666 01:20:29,640 --> 01:20:32,100 department boss, Bobby Kennedy. 1667 01:20:32,100 --> 01:20:35,890 They both believed that the CIA used horrible judgment 1668 01:20:35,890 --> 01:20:37,770 in aligning with a thug they were 1669 01:20:37,770 --> 01:20:40,350 both trying to build cases against. 1670 01:20:40,350 --> 01:20:43,240 Bobby said tersely to CIA general counsel Lawrence 1671 01:20:43,240 --> 01:20:46,410 Houston, "If you ever tried to do business with organized 1672 01:20:46,410 --> 01:20:50,170 crime again, with gangsters, you will let me know." 1673 01:20:50,170 --> 01:20:52,820 The entire operation was scrapped all 1674 01:20:52,820 --> 01:20:56,870 because Sam got the CIA to bug Dan Rowand's hotel room. 1675 01:20:56,870 --> 01:20:59,160 Still, certain Outfit members continued 1676 01:20:59,160 --> 01:21:03,370 to operate with CIA agents in inciting Batista loyalists 1677 01:21:03,370 --> 01:21:06,610 to move against Castro, delivering both arms 1678 01:21:06,610 --> 01:21:10,160 and propaganda to Cuba from off the Florida coast. 1679 01:21:10,160 --> 01:21:15,640 One of the gun runners was Sam's old pal, Jack Ruby. 1680 01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:19,460 In April of 1961, the CIA spearheaded an invasion 1681 01:21:19,460 --> 01:21:22,730 of Cuba's coastline by 1,500 exiles. 1682 01:21:22,730 --> 01:21:25,880 The success of the thrust hinged on the air support 1683 01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:27,860 that the president had promised. 1684 01:21:27,860 --> 01:21:31,380 When the initial ground attack at the Bay Pigs failed, 1685 01:21:31,380 --> 01:21:35,320 Kennedy reneged, skittish about possible repercussions. 1686 01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:37,250 The insurgents regrouped. 1687 01:21:37,250 --> 01:21:39,260 Huddled against the baby, they suddenly 1688 01:21:39,260 --> 01:21:41,180 found themselves seriously outnumbered 1689 01:21:41,180 --> 01:21:42,910 by Castro's regulars. 1690 01:21:42,910 --> 01:21:45,980 The CIA pleaded for Kennedy who reconsider, 1691 01:21:45,980 --> 01:21:47,560 but was again denied. 1692 01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:49,710 The whole thing was a botched job 1693 01:21:49,710 --> 01:21:51,760 and it really pissed Sam off. 1694 01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:59,180 [REEL CLICKING] 1695 01:21:59,180 --> 01:22:04,130 [MUSIC PLAYING] 1696 01:22:04,130 --> 01:22:07,680 NARRATOR: In early 1962, Roemer's wiretaps of the Armory 1697 01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:11,150 Lounge conversations gave the FBI intelligence 1698 01:22:11,150 --> 01:22:14,780 that President Kennedy and Sam Giancana were both shacking 1699 01:22:14,780 --> 01:22:16,880 up with Judith Campbell Exner. 1700 01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:19,390 J. Edgar Hoover brought the matter to Bobby Kennedy's 1701 01:22:19,390 --> 01:22:22,650 attention and Bobby Kennedy took the matter very, 1702 01:22:22,650 --> 01:22:24,760 very seriously. 1703 01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:27,700 White House logs show that one more call was placed 1704 01:22:27,700 --> 01:22:31,580 to Campbell Exner, after which there was no further contact. 1705 01:22:31,580 --> 01:22:34,260 This is when Bobby got John to shut the iron 1706 01:22:34,260 --> 01:22:37,320 gate against Sinatra and a whole bunch. 1707 01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:39,470 Sinatra had built a home for John Kennedy 1708 01:22:39,470 --> 01:22:42,890 in Palm Springs, a presidential getaway. 1709 01:22:42,890 --> 01:22:44,630 Kennedy never saw it. 1710 01:22:44,630 --> 01:22:47,110 The next time he came west, John Kennedy 1711 01:22:47,110 --> 01:22:51,510 snubbed Sinatra and stayed at the home of singer Bing Crosby. 1712 01:22:51,510 --> 01:22:55,930 Sinatra took it hard, but there was more hell to pay than that. 1713 01:22:55,930 --> 01:22:59,650 Bobby Kennedy, as Attorney General, kept coming after Sam. 1714 01:22:59,650 --> 01:23:02,350 Sam knew that he'd been screwed by the Kennedys. 1715 01:23:02,350 --> 01:23:05,000 What was worse-- Accardo knew. 1716 01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:08,180 When Sam put the Outfit to work for Kennedy's election, 1717 01:23:08,180 --> 01:23:11,080 he had to convince Accardo that Kennedy would ease up. 1718 01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:15,550 Then, Bobby Kennedy got New Orleans boss Carlos Marcello 1719 01:23:15,550 --> 01:23:19,250 deported to Guatemala, and that was really the final straw. 1720 01:23:19,250 --> 01:23:22,570 A lot of heat was put on Sam to burn Sinatra who'd 1721 01:23:22,570 --> 01:23:25,510 sworn up and down the Kennedy could be trusted, 1722 01:23:25,510 --> 01:23:28,610 but Sam loved Frank too much to kill him. 1723 01:23:28,610 --> 01:23:31,920 Instead, Sam was a silent owner of a supper club 1724 01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:34,940 in Wheeling Illinois call the Villa Vanice. 1725 01:23:34,940 --> 01:23:38,000 It was on Eight Acres and had canals and gondolas equipped 1726 01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:42,150 with prostitutes and bus rides to a nearby [INAUDIBLE] 1727 01:23:42,150 --> 01:23:44,320 where there was illegal gambling. 1728 01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:48,770 But the big draw was Sinatra and his pals, The Rat Pack. 1729 01:23:48,770 --> 01:23:51,220 The place was packed for the grand opening, 1730 01:23:51,220 --> 01:23:54,230 and it was solid profit for Sam because the entertainment 1731 01:23:54,230 --> 01:23:55,700 was free. 1732 01:23:55,700 --> 01:23:59,720 Sinatra performed at the Villa Vanice for a solid month gratis 1733 01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:02,250 as payment for failing to get the Kennedys 1734 01:24:02,250 --> 01:24:04,640 to honor Joe's deal with the Outfit. 1735 01:24:04,640 --> 01:24:07,670 He also got Eddie Fisher and Sammy Davis, 1736 01:24:07,670 --> 01:24:09,160 Jr. to do likewise. 1737 01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:09,860 -[INAUDIBLE] 1738 01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:16,810 NARRATOR: There was another woman John Kennedy, 1739 01:24:16,810 --> 01:24:20,410 Frank Sinatra, and Sam Giancana all slept with. 1740 01:24:20,410 --> 01:24:23,720 One much more famous than Judith Campbell Exner. 1741 01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:27,660 Sam had known Marilyn Monroe before she was famous. 1742 01:24:27,660 --> 01:24:29,250 He met her through Johnny Roselli. 1743 01:24:29,250 --> 01:24:32,040 He even invested in her career. 1744 01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:37,570 -I think that there's another highly sensational story there 1745 01:24:37,570 --> 01:24:40,230 that the President of the United States 1746 01:24:40,230 --> 01:24:42,720 and the boss of a major crime family 1747 01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:46,150 are sleeping with America's number one starlet. 1748 01:24:46,150 --> 01:24:49,580 NARRATOR: Sam had found out from his old CIA contact, Maheu, 1749 01:24:49,580 --> 01:24:51,630 that the CIA had recorded lovemaking 1750 01:24:51,630 --> 01:24:54,380 between Jack Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. 1751 01:24:54,380 --> 01:24:57,050 He'd known about the affair from Sinatra, 1752 01:24:57,050 --> 01:25:00,960 but now we learn from Maheu that Jack had pulled out, 1753 01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:03,410 and now, his brother Bobby, was having 1754 01:25:03,410 --> 01:25:06,130 an extramarital affair with Marilyn. 1755 01:25:06,130 --> 01:25:08,230 An affair he was trying to end because she 1756 01:25:08,230 --> 01:25:10,960 was becoming unstable. 1757 01:25:10,960 --> 01:25:13,500 Sam invited Monroe to the Cal Neva, 1758 01:25:13,500 --> 01:25:16,770 the Tahoe lodge he owned with Sinatra where Sam had 1759 01:25:16,770 --> 01:25:20,240 his own affair with her according to FBI wiretap 1760 01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:22,250 conversations between Sam and Johnny 1761 01:25:22,250 --> 01:25:25,200 Roselli at the Armory Lounge. 1762 01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:28,240 Maybe that was Sam's revenge against the Kennedys, 1763 01:25:28,240 --> 01:25:32,150 but according to Sam's brother, Pepe, there was more. 1764 01:25:32,150 --> 01:25:36,210 Pepe claims that Sam told him that Maryland told Sam 1765 01:25:36,210 --> 01:25:38,650 that she had letters from Bobby Kennedy. 1766 01:25:38,650 --> 01:25:41,860 Sam's plan, according to his brother's report, 1767 01:25:41,860 --> 01:25:45,640 was to murder Monroe, make it look like suicide, 1768 01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:49,890 then have the police find the letters from Bobby Kennedy. 1769 01:25:49,890 --> 01:25:54,200 The Kennedys would be disgraced and removed from office. 1770 01:25:54,200 --> 01:25:56,340 Pepe Giancana swears that Sam got 1771 01:25:56,340 --> 01:25:59,160 a couple of out-of-town guys to break in to her place 1772 01:25:59,160 --> 01:26:02,590 and feed her an Nembutal suppository, which 1773 01:26:02,590 --> 01:26:05,570 killed her quickly and left no evidence. 1774 01:26:05,570 --> 01:26:07,060 Then they scattered Bobby Kennedy's 1775 01:26:07,060 --> 01:26:09,430 love letters all over the place. 1776 01:26:09,430 --> 01:26:11,390 Sam opened the papers expecting to see 1777 01:26:11,390 --> 01:26:13,980 Bobby Kennedy blamed for the suicide. 1778 01:26:13,980 --> 01:26:16,480 But Bobby's name wasn't mentioned. 1779 01:26:16,480 --> 01:26:18,550 The Secret Service had gotten there first 1780 01:26:18,550 --> 01:26:21,970 and swept the incriminating letters from the death scene. 1781 01:26:21,970 --> 01:26:24,640 Not everybody believes the story. 1782 01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:26,340 ARTHUR LURIGIO: I think Sam's relationship 1783 01:26:26,340 --> 01:26:30,770 with Marilyn Monroe was sexual only. 1784 01:26:30,770 --> 01:26:33,080 I don't think that he had any other kind of a relationship 1785 01:26:33,080 --> 01:26:33,880 with her. 1786 01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:37,400 But the fact that the president and the boss of the Outfit 1787 01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:39,790 were sharing women is an incredible story 1788 01:26:39,790 --> 01:26:42,760 in and of itself. 1789 01:26:42,760 --> 01:26:46,240 [MUSIC PLAYING] 1790 01:26:56,960 --> 01:26:59,490 [GUNSHOT SOUND] 1791 01:26:59,490 --> 01:27:04,310 -The theories abound and we talk about organized crime's 1792 01:27:04,310 --> 01:27:06,180 connection to the Kennedy assassination. 1793 01:27:06,180 --> 01:27:07,940 Sam's name comes up. 1794 01:27:07,940 --> 01:27:10,230 -The Outfit despised the Kennedys going back 1795 01:27:10,230 --> 01:27:12,280 to the McClellan committee hearings. 1796 01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:16,420 -Organized crime certainly had a motive. 1797 01:27:16,420 --> 01:27:20,730 They certainly had the means and they had an opportunity. 1798 01:27:20,730 --> 01:27:22,720 NARRATOR: According to Pepe Giancana, 1799 01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:25,200 Sam told his brother of his own complicity 1800 01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:31,220 in the events of November 22, 1963, in his Oak Park basement. 1801 01:27:31,220 --> 01:27:34,000 According to this account, Lee Harvey Oswald 1802 01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:37,680 was recruited by Carlos Marcello as a [INAUDIBLE]. 1803 01:27:37,680 --> 01:27:41,150 One of Oswald's uncles was Marcello's lieutenant, 1804 01:27:41,150 --> 01:27:44,800 but more importantly, Oswald had deep ties to Cuba 1805 01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:46,880 and Castro would be blamed. 1806 01:27:46,880 --> 01:27:50,680 The actual shooter were supplied by Giancana-- Richard Kane, 1807 01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:54,330 Chuckie Nicoletti, and Milwaukee Phil Alderisio. 1808 01:27:54,330 --> 01:27:56,780 MR. X: Oswald I don't think could [INAUDIBLE] 1809 01:27:56,780 --> 01:28:00,240 rob a gumball machine let alone to be positioned into this. 1810 01:28:00,240 --> 01:28:02,640 It had to come from people that, you know, know how to kill 1811 01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:03,340 [INAUDIBLE]. 1812 01:28:06,890 --> 01:28:09,900 NARRATOR: It was Richard Kane, according to Sam's brother, who 1813 01:28:09,900 --> 01:28:12,800 fired the shot that killed John Kennedy. 1814 01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:15,230 Interesting guy this Richard Kane. 1815 01:28:15,230 --> 01:28:18,340 He was a Chicago cop on Sam's payroll. 1816 01:28:18,340 --> 01:28:22,940 Both an FBI informant and a made member of the outfit. 1817 01:28:22,940 --> 01:28:27,360 He had also worked with the CIA, Sam, Roselli, and Ruby 1818 01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:29,950 on the whole Cuban fiasco. 1819 01:28:29,950 --> 01:28:30,980 FBI agent 1820 01:28:30,980 --> 01:28:34,070 Roemer always claimed that no way could Sam 1821 01:28:34,070 --> 01:28:36,760 have been involved in the Kennedy assassination 1822 01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:39,770 because the FBI surveillance would have picked it up. 1823 01:28:39,770 --> 01:28:45,070 But the guy he had watching Sam was FBI informant Richard Kane, 1824 01:28:45,070 --> 01:28:49,040 and in 1963, Roemer and the FBI had no idea 1825 01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:51,850 that Kane was actually working for Sam. 1826 01:28:51,850 --> 01:28:54,750 So there were things that the feds didn't know. 1827 01:28:54,750 --> 01:28:57,600 To make certain that Oswald would never talk, 1828 01:28:57,600 --> 01:28:59,480 Sam got his old helper, Jack Ruby, 1829 01:28:59,480 --> 01:29:04,000 to get two Dallas policeman, J.D. Tippit and Roscoe White, 1830 01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:07,480 who were secretly on his payroll to shoot Oswald. 1831 01:29:07,480 --> 01:29:09,710 Everything was arranged. 1832 01:29:09,710 --> 01:29:12,430 -The '60s [INAUDIBLE] when it all happened and I remember he 1833 01:29:12,430 --> 01:29:14,110 was home that day. 1834 01:29:14,110 --> 01:29:16,100 It was on the TV and I was sitting 1835 01:29:16,100 --> 01:29:23,590 there and he just [INAUDIBLE] like shot. 1836 01:29:23,590 --> 01:29:26,900 -Was Sam Giancana happy that Kennedy was assassinated? 1837 01:29:26,900 --> 01:29:28,230 Yes. 1838 01:29:28,230 --> 01:29:30,210 [GUNSHOT SOUND] 1839 01:29:30,210 --> 01:29:32,340 NARRATOR: But Sam didn't stay happy. 1840 01:29:32,340 --> 01:29:34,110 The plan went wrong. 1841 01:29:34,110 --> 01:29:38,070 Oswald shot and killed Officer Tippit and got arrested. 1842 01:29:38,070 --> 01:29:40,180 Then he started to talk. 1843 01:29:40,180 --> 01:29:42,110 LEE HARVEY OSWALD: [INAUDIBLE] you people have been given, 1844 01:29:42,110 --> 01:29:46,530 but I emphatically deny these charges. 1845 01:29:46,530 --> 01:29:49,500 NARRATOR: Sam put the arm on Jack Ruby. 1846 01:29:49,500 --> 01:29:53,270 -The world will never know the true facts of what occured. 1847 01:29:53,270 --> 01:29:55,150 Our motive. 1848 01:29:55,150 --> 01:29:58,480 -I heard this from fellas that would know that he had six 1849 01:29:58,480 --> 01:30:01,070 months to live with cancer or something 1850 01:30:01,070 --> 01:30:03,220 and I don't know if that's all true or not. 1851 01:30:03,220 --> 01:30:04,450 I really don't know when he did that. 1852 01:30:04,450 --> 01:30:07,270 I know he died shortly after the Harvey thing, 1853 01:30:07,270 --> 01:30:09,220 but it makes sense that he would do that. 1854 01:30:09,220 --> 01:30:12,170 Sort of take one for the team there. 1855 01:30:12,170 --> 01:30:14,010 ARTHUR LURIGIO: I'm playing with my cars 1856 01:30:14,010 --> 01:30:18,690 on the carpet watching TV and there 1857 01:30:18,690 --> 01:30:21,310 comes Jack Ruby shooting Oswald. 1858 01:30:21,310 --> 01:30:26,860 And My dad screams, "That's Jacob! 1859 01:30:26,860 --> 01:30:29,280 For Christ's sake, there's Jacob." 1860 01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:30,540 That was Jack Ruby. 1861 01:30:30,540 --> 01:30:33,720 Think about how incredible that story is. 1862 01:30:37,340 --> 01:30:40,030 NARRATOR: If Pepe Giancana's story is true, 1863 01:30:40,030 --> 01:30:43,090 then Sam had only half of a success. 1864 01:30:43,090 --> 01:30:46,530 The intrusion of Jack Ruby into this bit of American history 1865 01:30:46,530 --> 01:30:49,920 would always raise questions about the Outfit's involvement 1866 01:30:49,920 --> 01:30:52,030 in the Kennedy assassination. 1867 01:30:52,030 --> 01:30:55,130 Which would also piss off Sam's boss, Accardo, 1868 01:30:55,130 --> 01:30:59,380 who would once again see the Outfit make the papers. 1869 01:30:59,380 --> 01:31:01,840 But there was one good outcome. 1870 01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:05,100 -The events in Dallas greatly profited organized crime 1871 01:31:05,100 --> 01:31:10,800 because the organized crime program died with JFK. 1872 01:31:10,800 --> 01:31:11,790 [GUNSHOT SOUND] 1873 01:31:16,260 --> 01:31:19,730 [MUSIC PLAYING] 1874 01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:27,720 MR. X: His flightiness and his craziness 1875 01:31:27,720 --> 01:31:29,220 all through is life with the pain 1876 01:31:29,220 --> 01:31:32,130 that he carried as a youngster all the way until he's 1877 01:31:32,130 --> 01:31:36,830 the boss, and I would think that this just was enough's enough. 1878 01:31:36,830 --> 01:31:38,510 When enough his enough, its enough. 1879 01:31:38,510 --> 01:31:40,160 That's not my word but it's somebody 1880 01:31:40,160 --> 01:31:42,800 that was very close to that situation. 1881 01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:46,830 -Sam was a jet setter, Sam was in the newspapers. 1882 01:31:46,830 --> 01:31:50,600 Sam had his face on the camera all the time. 1883 01:31:50,600 --> 01:31:53,150 That just bought more opportunities for the media 1884 01:31:53,150 --> 01:31:54,360 to cover Sam. 1885 01:31:54,360 --> 01:31:57,330 NARRATOR: Tony Accardo didn't like it. 1886 01:31:57,330 --> 01:31:58,500 ARTHUR LURIGIO: The Outfit does not 1887 01:31:58,500 --> 01:32:00,990 like a boss in the limelight. 1888 01:32:00,990 --> 01:32:04,550 Every boss that's been in the limelight 1889 01:32:04,550 --> 01:32:07,770 has suffered repercussions either from law enforcement 1890 01:32:07,770 --> 01:32:10,810 or from the organized crime family. 1891 01:32:10,810 --> 01:32:19,820 The beginning of his downfall was his bringing attention 1892 01:32:19,820 --> 01:32:24,480 to the Outfit and it did not start with Phyllis McGuire. 1893 01:32:24,480 --> 01:32:30,110 It started with Sam's continuing battles with the FBI. 1894 01:32:30,110 --> 01:32:33,400 -He had a desire to be in the public eye, 1895 01:32:33,400 --> 01:32:35,110 and when he was running the Chicago family 1896 01:32:35,110 --> 01:32:37,060 he had a very high profile. 1897 01:32:37,060 --> 01:32:40,560 There were almost daily newspaper stories and accounts 1898 01:32:40,560 --> 01:32:44,740 of his activities, whether it was going out to dinner 1899 01:32:44,740 --> 01:32:46,810 or having a party in his house. 1900 01:32:46,810 --> 01:32:49,740 And that type of publicity isn't good for business 1901 01:32:49,740 --> 01:32:51,660 when your business is illegal crime. 1902 01:32:51,660 --> 01:32:56,100 -The Outfit did not, did not like Sam's relationship 1903 01:32:56,100 --> 01:32:58,900 with Phyllis McGuire because the cameras were always there, 1904 01:32:58,900 --> 01:33:00,680 and when the cameras were pointed on them, 1905 01:33:00,680 --> 01:33:05,210 the story was always about Sam Giancana, boss of the Outfit. 1906 01:33:05,210 --> 01:33:07,410 Sam Giancana, boss of the crime syndicate. 1907 01:33:07,410 --> 01:33:09,610 JOHN J. BINDER: She's playing in London, he's in London. 1908 01:33:09,610 --> 01:33:11,970 She's playing on the west coast, he's in the west coast. 1909 01:33:11,970 --> 01:33:14,020 She's playing in Vegas, he's in Vegas, 1910 01:33:14,020 --> 01:33:15,530 and he's just sending Butch Blasi 1911 01:33:15,530 --> 01:33:17,040 back and forth as a conduit. 1912 01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:18,390 Butch, fly back to Chicago. 1913 01:33:18,390 --> 01:33:20,060 Tell the guys he was at this. 1914 01:33:20,060 --> 01:33:21,590 No, you're supposed to be in Chicago if you're 1915 01:33:21,590 --> 01:33:23,610 the operating boss minding the business. 1916 01:33:23,610 --> 01:33:25,580 I think that's what really got him into trouble. 1917 01:33:25,580 --> 01:33:27,070 -Unlike some other crime bosses, they 1918 01:33:27,070 --> 01:33:28,350 may never leave the neighborhood. 1919 01:33:28,350 --> 01:33:29,800 Sam was all over the world. 1920 01:33:29,800 --> 01:33:32,900 -The other part was his unstable behavior in public 1921 01:33:32,900 --> 01:33:35,610 as the FBI was putting the screws 1922 01:33:35,610 --> 01:33:37,230 through him mentally shall we say. 1923 01:33:37,230 --> 01:33:39,770 NARRATOR: It was on Tony Accardo's recommendation 1924 01:33:39,770 --> 01:33:42,480 that Sam rose in the outfit. 1925 01:33:42,480 --> 01:33:46,210 Now Accardo had some serious buyer's remorse, 1926 01:33:46,210 --> 01:33:49,430 and powerful under bosses, like Jackie Cerone, 1927 01:33:49,430 --> 01:33:50,970 were complaining. 1928 01:33:50,970 --> 01:33:53,710 -One day sitting in a kitchen of a home 1929 01:33:53,710 --> 01:33:57,010 somewhere there's Paul Ricca, Tony Accardo, 1930 01:33:57,010 --> 01:33:59,470 probably almost certainly Sam "Teets" Battaglia, 1931 01:33:59,470 --> 01:34:02,220 and all of a sudden, Paul Ricca has enough. 1932 01:34:02,220 --> 01:34:06,820 He just goes off on Accardo and says, "It's all your fault. 1933 01:34:06,820 --> 01:34:09,620 You brought this asshole to me. 1934 01:34:09,620 --> 01:34:12,750 You vouched for this asshole. 1935 01:34:12,750 --> 01:34:14,340 It's all your fault." 1936 01:34:14,340 --> 01:34:17,520 NARRATOR: Accardo just kept looking at Butch Blasi, 1937 01:34:17,520 --> 01:34:19,830 who seemed to be doing Sam's job. 1938 01:34:19,830 --> 01:34:20,930 JOHN J. BINDER: Accardo developed 1939 01:34:20,930 --> 01:34:24,470 just this incredible hatred for Sam Giancana, 1940 01:34:24,470 --> 01:34:28,260 and again that seems to have been driven by Sam fooling 1941 01:34:28,260 --> 01:34:32,690 around with women which led him to not mind the store. 1942 01:34:32,690 --> 01:34:36,080 And by [INAUDIBLE] 1966, they-- you know, 1943 01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:37,180 they pulled him from that job. 1944 01:34:37,180 --> 01:34:38,530 They told him Sam, you're out. 1945 01:34:38,530 --> 01:34:40,590 -Took over in '62. 1946 01:34:40,590 --> 01:34:42,420 He had it for about four or five years where 1947 01:34:42,420 --> 01:34:44,330 it was-- the Outfit was at its strength. 1948 01:34:44,330 --> 01:34:46,940 But then when he left he sat out for all that time and kind 1949 01:34:46,940 --> 01:34:48,570 of just left it in shambles. 1950 01:34:48,570 --> 01:34:50,280 NARRATOR: Hauled off before a grand jury, 1951 01:34:50,280 --> 01:34:52,100 Sam kept taking the fifth. 1952 01:34:52,100 --> 01:34:55,150 The judge told him that all his past crimes were officially 1953 01:34:55,150 --> 01:34:59,330 forgiven so he could not possibly incriminate himself. 1954 01:34:59,330 --> 01:35:01,880 Sam took the fifth again. 1955 01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:06,360 The judge had Sam arrested and held in the Cook County Jail 1956 01:35:06,360 --> 01:35:09,390 while the grand jury sat for almost a year for contempt. 1957 01:35:13,180 --> 01:35:16,400 BONNIE GIANCANA: He was asked questions. 1958 01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:19,660 It was the grand jury here in Chicago 1959 01:35:19,660 --> 01:35:21,510 and he refused to answer. 1960 01:35:21,510 --> 01:35:23,560 And then he said, well, why don't you 1961 01:35:23,560 --> 01:35:25,780 sit in jail for a while until you're ready to answer. 1962 01:35:25,780 --> 01:35:30,960 -To go see him in jail was devastating. 1963 01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:33,450 NARRATOR: When Momo got out, he read the handwriting 1964 01:35:33,450 --> 01:35:35,860 on the wall and left the country. 1965 01:35:35,860 --> 01:35:40,260 He fled Chicago in-- I believe it was 1965 or 1966 1966 01:35:40,260 --> 01:35:42,070 and he went to Mexico. 1967 01:35:42,070 --> 01:35:45,360 It was a self-imposed exile if you will. 1968 01:35:45,360 --> 01:35:47,020 He had been subpoenaed several times. 1969 01:35:47,020 --> 01:35:49,430 Testified before a Senate committee 1970 01:35:49,430 --> 01:35:51,420 that was investigating racketeering 1971 01:35:51,420 --> 01:35:52,920 and organized crime. 1972 01:35:52,920 --> 01:35:56,510 I think he felt that the FBI was getting 1973 01:35:56,510 --> 01:35:59,630 close to having charges filed against him. 1974 01:35:59,630 --> 01:36:00,580 To making an arrest. 1975 01:36:00,580 --> 01:36:03,760 -He was gone, what, a year or two years? 1976 01:36:03,760 --> 01:36:09,630 That I think was when I kind of realized 1977 01:36:09,630 --> 01:36:11,260 basically what was going on. 1978 01:36:11,260 --> 01:36:13,590 NARRATOR: Sam went to Mexico and settled 1979 01:36:13,590 --> 01:36:16,200 in just outside of San Cristobal. 1980 01:36:16,200 --> 01:36:19,070 He appears to have been living in a villa. 1981 01:36:19,070 --> 01:36:22,030 You know, someone secluded perhaps in Mexico. 1982 01:36:22,030 --> 01:36:24,460 Probably paying off the Mexican authorities to, 1983 01:36:24,460 --> 01:36:26,200 you know, be left alone. 1984 01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:27,250 Be ignored. 1985 01:36:27,250 --> 01:36:30,150 There are reports of him doing gambling stuff 1986 01:36:30,150 --> 01:36:31,980 outside the United States at that point. 1987 01:36:31,980 --> 01:36:33,930 NARRATOR: From there, Sam traveled 1988 01:36:33,930 --> 01:36:38,030 all over Latin America running gambling operations. 1989 01:36:38,030 --> 01:36:40,620 When Phyllis or his daughters wanted to see him, 1990 01:36:40,620 --> 01:36:42,170 they had to see him there. 1991 01:36:42,170 --> 01:36:45,140 -There are some claims that the Outfit was mad at Sam 1992 01:36:45,140 --> 01:36:47,650 for not giving him a cut of some of this stuff. 1993 01:36:47,650 --> 01:36:51,160 Finally, when the US government brought enough pressure 1994 01:36:51,160 --> 01:36:54,360 on the Mexican government to have Momo deported. 1995 01:36:54,360 --> 01:36:55,490 JOHN J. BINDER: He's in his villa. 1996 01:36:55,490 --> 01:36:58,430 The Mexican police or the national police or whoever 1997 01:36:58,430 --> 01:37:01,940 burst in, grab him in maybe nothing more than his pajamas, 1998 01:37:01,940 --> 01:37:04,000 take him to the airport, shove him on a plane, 1999 01:37:04,000 --> 01:37:07,000 and forcibly deport him from the country 2000 01:37:07,000 --> 01:37:08,550 and fly back to the United States. 2001 01:37:08,550 --> 01:37:12,520 He's a-- at that point a somewhat ill older man 2002 01:37:12,520 --> 01:37:14,340 and has nowhere else to go. 2003 01:37:14,340 --> 01:37:16,700 FRANCINE GIANCANA: I was in [INAUDIBLE] basically when 2004 01:37:16,700 --> 01:37:21,460 he would come home and be there, you know, 2005 01:37:21,460 --> 01:37:23,410 finally seem like he was going to settle down. 2006 01:37:32,170 --> 01:37:32,870 [INAUDIBLE] 2007 01:37:41,840 --> 01:37:43,560 NARRATOR: He made it home just in time 2008 01:37:43,560 --> 01:37:45,680 for his daughter Francine's wedding. 2009 01:37:45,680 --> 01:37:46,850 FRANCINE GIANCANA: Well, when I got 2010 01:37:46,850 --> 01:37:50,180 married I got married in his basement. 2011 01:37:50,180 --> 01:37:53,080 In Oak Park. 2012 01:37:53,080 --> 01:37:55,340 I mean, you know, and it had this beautiful thing. 2013 01:37:55,340 --> 01:37:58,420 Bonnie had another one and I got married in a basement. 2014 01:38:03,620 --> 01:38:05,710 He'd just come home. 2015 01:38:05,710 --> 01:38:10,090 -He had left the country and '66 and then gone to Mexico. 2016 01:38:10,090 --> 01:38:13,260 He somehow found a way to get back here. 2017 01:38:13,260 --> 01:38:15,500 He wasn't able to walk her down the aisle 2018 01:38:15,500 --> 01:38:18,090 but he was in the house and it was a catered fair 2019 01:38:18,090 --> 01:38:19,930 and we just had the wedding here. 2020 01:38:19,930 --> 01:38:23,240 -He couldn't leave the house. 2021 01:38:23,240 --> 01:38:25,120 NARRATOR: Summoned to appear before the Senate's 2022 01:38:25,120 --> 01:38:27,490 select subcommittee on intelligence, 2023 01:38:27,490 --> 01:38:31,610 Sam's failing health allowed him to postpone his appearance. 2024 01:38:31,610 --> 01:38:35,520 A series of gallbladder operations kept him bedridden. 2025 01:38:35,520 --> 01:38:38,950 At last, back on his feet, another subpoena 2026 01:38:38,950 --> 01:38:42,900 ordered him to appear without alibi in Washington, DC, 2027 01:38:42,900 --> 01:38:46,120 on June 24, 1975. 2028 01:38:46,120 --> 01:38:48,610 -What the newspapers will tell you is that there-- the Outfit 2029 01:38:48,610 --> 01:38:50,790 was afraid he was going to testify and his subpoena 2030 01:38:50,790 --> 01:38:53,090 to testify under some federal grand jury 2031 01:38:53,090 --> 01:38:55,830 about these CIA activities. 2032 01:38:55,830 --> 01:38:59,170 [MUSIC PLAYING] 2033 01:39:03,500 --> 01:39:04,870 FRANCINE GIANCANA: It was a weird feeling 2034 01:39:04,870 --> 01:39:08,030 leaving that night. 2035 01:39:08,030 --> 01:39:11,290 Because first of all, usually Butch is always there 2036 01:39:11,290 --> 01:39:14,270 and he wasn't there. 2037 01:39:14,270 --> 01:39:16,140 NICHOLAS CELOZZI: Sam was there eating-- we were talking 2038 01:39:16,140 --> 01:39:18,320 about it-- and he was by himself. 2039 01:39:18,320 --> 01:39:21,560 And he just kept staring out the window. 2040 01:39:21,560 --> 01:39:23,650 And he had no one around him. 2041 01:39:23,650 --> 01:39:27,620 None of his friends, you know, with Blasi, Chuckie English. 2042 01:39:27,620 --> 01:39:28,900 Other people that, you know, were 2043 01:39:28,900 --> 01:39:30,420 supposed to be there to protect him. 2044 01:39:30,420 --> 01:39:31,450 They were never around. 2045 01:39:31,450 --> 01:39:34,820 NARRATOR: Sam's boss, Tony "The Big Tuna" Accardo, 2046 01:39:34,820 --> 01:39:39,140 known to insiders as JB, had lost all patience with Sam 2047 01:39:39,140 --> 01:39:40,800 by this time. 2048 01:39:40,800 --> 01:39:45,470 -Jerry went to pick him up, drive him to the house, 2049 01:39:45,470 --> 01:39:47,460 and he came home and got [INAUDIBLE]. 2050 01:39:50,830 --> 01:39:52,810 -You don't know what's going on behind the scenes. 2051 01:39:55,450 --> 01:39:57,990 -I think Chuckie English was in the house though. 2052 01:39:57,990 --> 01:39:59,900 Which was strange. 2053 01:39:59,900 --> 01:40:02,610 It was strange for him to be there that day. 2054 01:40:06,070 --> 01:40:08,570 We left there by 9:30. 2055 01:40:08,570 --> 01:40:10,410 By 10:30 we got a call. 2056 01:40:10,410 --> 01:40:11,840 -Why would he be making sausage and peppers 2057 01:40:11,840 --> 01:40:15,750 at the holes in Oak Park where everybody knew he was at if he 2058 01:40:15,750 --> 01:40:17,650 thought that he was in any danger. 2059 01:40:17,650 --> 01:40:20,130 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Sam trusted who was down there in the basement. 2060 01:40:20,130 --> 01:40:21,600 Sam might have been cooking for the people 2061 01:40:21,600 --> 01:40:22,450 down in the basement. 2062 01:40:22,450 --> 01:40:24,330 The people who were down in the basement 2063 01:40:24,330 --> 01:40:27,090 have been down in the basement hundreds of times before. 2064 01:40:27,090 --> 01:40:29,710 And I think I know who the people down in the basement 2065 01:40:29,710 --> 01:40:32,320 were. 2066 01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:34,680 -Butch was the last one there that night. 2067 01:40:34,680 --> 01:40:36,850 When the party broke up, everybody left. 2068 01:40:36,850 --> 01:40:39,070 The car doing surveillance on-- I 2069 01:40:39,070 --> 01:40:40,700 think a Chicago police department car-- was doing 2070 01:40:40,700 --> 01:40:42,370 a rolling surveillance that night. 2071 01:40:42,370 --> 01:40:44,150 At the time it was still at the Giancana house. 2072 01:40:44,150 --> 01:40:47,030 After everybody leaves, they see Butch come back. 2073 01:40:47,030 --> 01:40:49,170 And then the Chicago car gets called off 2074 01:40:49,170 --> 01:40:49,970 and goes somewhere else. 2075 01:40:52,850 --> 01:40:54,580 FRANCINE GIANCANA: And then when we were pulling out 2076 01:40:54,580 --> 01:40:56,640 of the driveway, he was pulling in 2077 01:40:56,640 --> 01:41:00,910 and we got home and Joe called and he 2078 01:41:00,910 --> 01:41:02,180 said, whoa, something happened to Dad. 2079 01:41:02,180 --> 01:41:03,150 I don't know what's going on. 2080 01:41:10,180 --> 01:41:12,780 -Well, I know that another crew was on it. 2081 01:41:15,540 --> 01:41:18,850 They were on it first-- they got called off at the last minute. 2082 01:41:18,850 --> 01:41:21,740 There was an easier way to do it and it was Butch Blasi. 2083 01:41:24,700 --> 01:41:27,410 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Chuckie English and Butch Blasi 2084 01:41:27,410 --> 01:41:29,440 were down in the basement. 2085 01:41:29,440 --> 01:41:32,680 That would be my guess. 2086 01:41:32,680 --> 01:41:35,360 MR. X: My thing is that I don't think Butch was as close to Sam 2087 01:41:35,360 --> 01:41:37,570 as people thought-- or at least what Sam [INAUDIBLE]. 2088 01:41:42,390 --> 01:41:43,350 [GUNSHOT SOUND] 2089 01:41:47,890 --> 01:41:50,670 -As you know, he was killed in the kitchen of his home 2090 01:41:50,670 --> 01:41:52,420 in June of 1975. 2091 01:41:52,420 --> 01:41:54,930 Another of the many unsolved gangland slayings 2092 01:41:54,930 --> 01:41:56,590 that we have here in Chicago. 2093 01:41:56,590 --> 01:41:58,700 There was no sign of forced entrance. 2094 01:41:58,700 --> 01:42:01,630 He obviously knew the person that was sent to kill him. 2095 01:42:01,630 --> 01:42:04,010 ARTHUR LURIGIO: When Sam was killed, 2096 01:42:04,010 --> 01:42:07,370 I looked at my dad and I said, "Who-- who do you think 2097 01:42:07,370 --> 01:42:08,070 did this?" 2098 01:42:08,070 --> 01:42:10,170 And he said, "You know who. 2099 01:42:10,170 --> 01:42:11,380 [INAUDIBLE]." 2100 01:42:11,380 --> 01:42:14,040 -When Butch pulled that .22 out on him I 2101 01:42:14,040 --> 01:42:15,870 think he might have started regret then. 2102 01:42:15,870 --> 01:42:17,150 Prior to that I don't think he knew 2103 01:42:17,150 --> 01:42:19,030 what the hell was going on. 2104 01:42:19,030 --> 01:42:21,620 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Allegedly the murder weapon was found 2105 01:42:21,620 --> 01:42:24,400 in Thatcher Woods on the way to River Fort where Butch lived 2106 01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:26,680 and where Chuckie lived. 2107 01:42:26,680 --> 01:42:28,640 -I think that Tony Accardo would have been involved 2108 01:42:28,640 --> 01:42:30,670 in the decision to have Sam Giancana killed. 2109 01:42:30,670 --> 01:42:32,340 I don't think there's any question about that. 2110 01:42:32,340 --> 01:42:34,430 Somebody of Sam's stature would have 2111 01:42:34,430 --> 01:42:36,250 to be approved from the top. 2112 01:42:36,250 --> 01:42:40,000 JB's best guy was Jackie Cerone. 2113 01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:41,950 He wanted him to be on the boss. 2114 01:42:41,950 --> 01:42:42,650 Sam rejected him. 2115 01:42:42,650 --> 01:42:44,290 Flat out said I don't want him. 2116 01:42:44,290 --> 01:42:47,570 In fact, his quote was, "Over my dead body," which Jack later 2117 01:42:47,570 --> 01:42:50,040 in years had said, well, he finally got his wish. 2118 01:42:50,040 --> 01:42:52,350 JOHN J. BINDER: Sam Giancana's killing in 1975 2119 01:42:52,350 --> 01:42:56,190 was-- as far as I'm concerned-- certainly 2120 01:42:56,190 --> 01:42:59,230 ordered and sanctioned by Tony Accardo. 2121 01:42:59,230 --> 01:43:00,920 ARTHUR LURIGIO: Sam was ready to testify 2122 01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:04,040 before the Senate committee on assassinations. 2123 01:43:04,040 --> 01:43:06,680 I don't believe Sam Giancana was killed because they 2124 01:43:06,680 --> 01:43:08,980 thought that-- that he would be a rat. 2125 01:43:08,980 --> 01:43:11,560 Sam Giancana would never be a rat. 2126 01:43:11,560 --> 01:43:14,590 But Sam's testifying would continue 2127 01:43:14,590 --> 01:43:17,590 to bring new attention to the Outfit. 2128 01:43:17,590 --> 01:43:20,050 That was big news when Sam Giancana testified. 2129 01:43:20,050 --> 01:43:22,970 -It was devastating for a lot of people that depended on him. 2130 01:43:22,970 --> 01:43:26,210 -It's difficult losing family members, and what that does, 2131 01:43:26,210 --> 01:43:29,130 quite frankly, is it teaches you not to get close to people. 2132 01:43:29,130 --> 01:43:34,830 -Deep down inside, he had a good heart, and a lot of things 2133 01:43:34,830 --> 01:43:35,960 have been said and a lot of things 2134 01:43:35,960 --> 01:43:40,650 have been written about his anti-social behavior, diagnosis 2135 01:43:40,650 --> 01:43:43,320 that were made early on in his life that 2136 01:43:43,320 --> 01:43:45,040 seemed to have stuck with him. 2137 01:43:45,040 --> 01:43:46,980 I just think that it's a misnomer. 2138 01:43:46,980 --> 01:43:49,420 That that's probably the most important thing 2139 01:43:49,420 --> 01:43:52,130 is that we know he wasn't an angel. 2140 01:43:52,130 --> 01:43:55,700 But he wasn't a bad guy. 2141 01:43:55,700 --> 01:43:57,970 -You knew him in one particular way, 2142 01:43:57,970 --> 01:44:01,850 and then you hear everything else about him 2143 01:44:01,850 --> 01:44:04,250 when you [INAUDIBLE]. 2144 01:44:04,250 --> 01:44:06,840 You know, you hear things in the television. 2145 01:44:06,840 --> 01:44:08,860 You read things in the newspaper. 2146 01:44:08,860 --> 01:44:10,910 He was always in the headlines at that time. 2147 01:44:10,910 --> 01:44:14,900 -I think he made a lot of his own luck. 2148 01:44:14,900 --> 01:44:20,290 He created good things, and I'm sure that a little luck was 2149 01:44:20,290 --> 01:44:24,190 involved in that he lived as long as he did. 2150 01:44:24,190 --> 01:44:28,140 He had a good life considering the so-called occupation 2151 01:44:28,140 --> 01:44:29,160 he was in. 2152 01:44:29,160 --> 01:44:31,370 -I mean, he was kind of my health. 2153 01:44:31,370 --> 01:44:33,810 He would shovel the driveway. 2154 01:44:33,810 --> 01:44:37,230 He would-- I mean, just simple things. 2155 01:44:37,230 --> 01:44:40,000 Just being a father and a grandpa. 2156 01:44:40,000 --> 01:44:43,410 -Everyone's world just changed in a moment 2157 01:44:43,410 --> 01:44:45,240 and it was never going to be the same. 2158 01:44:45,240 --> 01:44:50,810 -All this kind of stuff was just kind of a weird normality 2159 01:44:50,810 --> 01:44:52,760 that we had to grow up with. 2160 01:44:52,760 --> 01:44:56,870 Death was always around and it was just kind of very surreal 2161 01:44:56,870 --> 01:44:59,080 how everybody just dealt with tragedy 2162 01:44:59,080 --> 01:45:01,770 because it always just was there. 2163 01:45:01,770 --> 01:45:03,060 While Sam was running the Outfit, 2164 01:45:03,060 --> 01:45:05,290 he brought in millions every month. 2165 01:45:05,290 --> 01:45:10,160 Whatever money Sam Giancana had when he died was never found. 2166 01:45:10,160 --> 01:45:12,910 -A strong belief is that it was squirreled away somewhere 2167 01:45:12,910 --> 01:45:16,350 and what he maybe we thought of as the great love 2168 01:45:16,350 --> 01:45:19,480 of his later life after his wife died, Phyllis McGuire, 2169 01:45:19,480 --> 01:45:23,260 that she had control over those accounts and she got the money. 2170 01:45:23,260 --> 01:45:25,160 That's the common belief. 2171 01:45:25,160 --> 01:45:29,480 -It's a mystery we've never really been able to solve. 2172 01:45:29,480 --> 01:45:34,090 Every year around his birthday, there's a rose on-- on the door 2173 01:45:34,090 --> 01:45:38,570 and to this day we still don't know. 2174 01:45:38,570 --> 01:45:40,790 We had a wonderful life growing up. 2175 01:45:40,790 --> 01:45:44,530 I had a wonderful life even after I left the home 2176 01:45:44,530 --> 01:45:45,440 and married. 2177 01:45:45,440 --> 01:45:47,680 I mean, it was just-- it was good. 2178 01:45:47,680 --> 01:45:49,710 I don't know how he was in business. 2179 01:45:49,710 --> 01:45:53,190 I don't know-- to tell you the truth, the only thing I know 2180 01:45:53,190 --> 01:45:57,140 about a lot of things are things that I've read in the paper. 2181 01:45:57,140 --> 01:46:02,340 -I was just like [INAUDIBLE] as a generally gentle person. 2182 01:46:02,340 --> 01:46:03,760 A father. 2183 01:46:03,760 --> 01:46:07,770 He was a wonderful [INAUDIBLE] husband to my mom. 2184 01:46:07,770 --> 01:46:10,050 You know what, I don't even want to know. 2185 01:46:10,050 --> 01:46:12,760 I-- [INAUDIBLE] no. 2186 01:46:12,760 --> 01:46:13,650 I don't read the books. 2187 01:46:13,650 --> 01:46:16,110 I don't read the newspaper. 2188 01:46:16,110 --> 01:46:20,220 I-- you know. 2189 01:46:20,220 --> 01:46:23,700 I don't want to know because I-- it's not how I remember him. 2190 01:46:23,700 --> 01:46:31,940 I remember him as my father that I adored. 2191 01:46:35,540 --> 01:46:38,650 -I just remember good things. 2192 01:46:38,650 --> 01:46:42,160 -He just was my idol. 2193 01:46:42,160 --> 01:46:43,160 He really was. 2194 01:46:53,440 --> 01:46:56,720 NARRATOR: In the late 1970s, partly as an aftermath 2195 01:46:56,720 --> 01:47:00,340 to Watergate related federal prosecutions of FBI 2196 01:47:00,340 --> 01:47:05,350 surveillances, the FBI began making public the secret files 2197 01:47:05,350 --> 01:47:08,430 of recorded conversations of Sam Giancana 2198 01:47:08,430 --> 01:47:10,420 and other public figures. 2199 01:47:10,420 --> 01:47:13,410 These files now available to the public show 2200 01:47:13,410 --> 01:47:18,400 the tip of a fascinating iceberg that was Sam Giancana. 2201 01:47:18,400 --> 01:47:21,010 During his lifetime you could read in the papers 2202 01:47:21,010 --> 01:47:23,260 that he was a ruthless crime boss. 2203 01:47:23,260 --> 01:47:25,760 But now these transcripts revealed 2204 01:47:25,760 --> 01:47:29,310 to anyone who's interested a man who was the intersection 2205 01:47:29,310 --> 01:47:34,320 of illegal gambling, murder, CIA plots, presidential Black 2206 01:47:34,320 --> 01:47:37,570 Ops, spies, and the most sexually haunting 2207 01:47:37,570 --> 01:47:40,160 women the world has ever known. 2208 01:47:40,160 --> 01:47:42,160 A man who grew up poor in "the Patch" 2209 01:47:42,160 --> 01:47:45,160 who killed guys, who loved his family, 2210 01:47:45,160 --> 01:47:48,790 was adored by his daughters, betrayed by his friends. 2211 01:47:48,790 --> 01:47:49,610 [GUNSHOT SOUND] 2212 01:47:54,800 --> 01:47:58,000 Who hung out with the famous and the invisible, who 2213 01:47:58,000 --> 01:48:01,220 was both courted and prosecuted by Kennedys, 2214 01:48:01,220 --> 01:48:03,850 and was finally exposed by these tapes 2215 01:48:03,850 --> 01:48:06,310 as a very complicated guy. 2216 01:48:06,310 --> 01:48:09,000 The tip of a very strange iceberg. 2217 01:48:27,750 --> 01:48:32,410 [MUSIC PLAYING] 2218 01:48:32,460 --> 01:48:37,010 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0