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• Open City

  True Story of the KC Crime Family, 1900-1950

  Ouseley, William

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  It began with a Mafia-like clan labeled the Black Hand, its roots planted in the secret crime societies of Southern Italy and Sicily - a band of extortionists victimizing the city's "Little Italy" community in the early 1900s. From modest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mobsters in Our Midst

  the Kansas City Crime Family

  Ouseley, William,

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  History of the prominent Italian gangsters in Kansas City, including Nick Civella, and the River Quay bombings of the 1970s.

• Gangland Wire

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  Filmmaker Gary Jenkins was a Kansas City Police Detective in the 1970s. He was assigned to a task force dedicated to bringing down the La Cosa Nostra family in Kansas City, Missouri. After retirement Gary started making documentary films. In this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mafia and the Machine

  the Story of the Kansas City Mob

  Hayde, Frank R.

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  Also available as an eBook! The story of the American Mafia is not complete without a chapter on Kansas City--even Hollywood gives a nod to the "City of Fountains" in mafia films. Events unfolding in Kansas City have affected the fortunes of all the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Union Station

  Parks, Ande

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  Kansas City, Missouri, 1933. Frank Nash is a petty criminal who has been pinched by the Feds and is being brought back into town by train. When FBI agent Reed Vetterli heads down to Union Station to meet Nash and his uniformed escort, he has no…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Union Station Massacre Scene

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  Photograph view of the front of Union Station in Kansas City where the Union Station Massacre has just happened.

• Black Hand Strawman

  the History of Organized Crime in Kansas City

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  Detailed history of gangsters in Kansas City, including the Black Hand group of Italians, Tom Pendergast's machine, John Lazia, the Union Station Massacre, Binaggio, Gargotta, and the 1970s rise of Nick Civella as a Mafia godfather.

• Black Hand / Strawman

  the History of Organized Crime in Kansas City

  O'Malley, Terence Michael

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  This is a scrapbook, a graphic depiction of the story of organized crime in Kansas City, a companion to the 2009 documentary film of the same name. The photos, headlines, artifacts, exhibits, illustrations and records form the narrative and expose a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Civic Housekeepers And More

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  A history of women's organizations and women civic leaders in Kansas City. Beginning the in the 1850s and continuing forward, women in Kansas City sought to form groups that addressed issues of education, charity, morality, reform, and equality.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shooting Back in Time

  the Kansas City Union Station Massacre

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  As lawmen escort escaped convict Frank Nash through the East doors of the Union Station to a car to be driven back to Leavenworth Penitentiary, the group is attacked by gangsters. The firestorm on Saturday morning of June 17, 1933 leaves the nation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Union Station Massacre

  the Original Sin of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI

  Unger, Robert

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  The author reveals new details of the historic shooting. Based on years of research in the FBI files, he tells how the lawmen did most of the shooting and the killing in the massacre that created the modern F.B.I.

• Tom & Harry

  the Boss and the President

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  Explores the complex relationship between Harry Truman and Tom Pendergast, the boss of the powerful political Machine that controlled Kansas City's politics in the 1920s and 1930s. The origins of the Pendergast Machine in the 19th century are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Organized Crime compilation

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  A 4 volume collection of photocopied newspaper articles from the Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times detailing various aspects of organized crime in the Kansas City area. Each article is annotated with its date and source of publication

• 1979 Crime Commission Report of Prosecutions by the Kansas City Field Office Strike Force of the U. S. Justice Department Organized Crime and Racketeering Section

  Maudlin, Frank

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  Report by non-profit group on successes of the Strike Force in prosecuting subjects in organized crime since 1971 in Greater Kansas City

• Hoods Who

  Spotlight on Organized Crime

  Kansas City Crime Commission

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  Lists, charts, cartoons, and so on about Kansas City organized crime and its prevention.

• Organized Crime vertical file

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• River Quay vertical file

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• The Binaggio and Gargotta Murders compilation

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  A collection of 111 pages of photocopied newspaper articles from the Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times detailing the murders of Charles Binaggio and Charles Gargotta and the subsequent investigation of those killings. The victims were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kansas City Citizens League vertical file

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  Photos and information on the Kansas City Citizens League (or Citizens' League), a non-partisan local political organization established in 1918 for better city government and involved with the fight against the Pendergast machine with publication…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kansas City's Declaration of Independence (with Apologies to Thomas Jefferson)

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  Duplicate of the original Declaration of Independence of the United States, adapted to the revolution against the Pendergast machine. Found in the Citizens' League Bulletin February 19, 1938.