When I read a Boston Globe columnist tell us Whitey was involved in decades of terror in Boston and also newspapers throughout the world repeating those exact words, I accepted that the a complete evilification of Whitey had been accomplished. I recognized this much earlier with his arrest and the extraordinary coverage by the media…
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Days Slip By As We Wait For Answers
Day 1 – A request that we do our best to avoid posting videos in the comment section. You can refer to the location of one on the net describing in your opinion how it relates to the matters under discussion but the naked posting takes away from the discussion aspects of the comments. Day 5…
Terrorizing Boston? It Wasn’t Whitey!
I went to a book club the other night where my book Don’t Embarrassed The Family was the topic of discussion. That book considered the 2002 trial of FBI Agent John Connolly and the murders involved were mainly those of Martorano, Weeks and Salemme. All the people at the book group lived in and around Boston from…
Keeping Track of Whitey: And Ibragim Todashev
On Wednesday I went to the inmate locator for the Bureau of Prisons to check on the status of Whitey. He was listed as “not in BOP custody.” Thursday I went back to it. It reported he was “in transit.” As we know Judge Casper ordered him into the custody of the BOP on November 14….
Paris-Underground: Making Mockery of Our Gangsters
Being laid up a couple of days due to one of the periodic rebellions by my left knee, I took the occasion to do some reading outside the confines of the matters relating to Boston Betrayed, as I call the saga surrounding Whitey Bulger. I read Sean O’Casey’s Knocking At The Door telling of his early…
Over, Over and Over They Talk Like We Are Fools:
Bastardizing the lyrics from an old Jerry Lee Lewis Llyod Price popular crossover song seemed appropriate title for this post; by the way Lewis who nearing his 80s is still going strong in Memphis having last year tied the knot for the seventh time. Price wrote and sang the song “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” always one of my youthful favorites. It was…