20 KKK Members Burned Bumpy’s Block at 3AM — By Sunrise Every One of Them Was KNEELING June 14th, 1959, 3:17 a.m. 20 hooded figures moved through the darkness of West 134th Street. Under those white robes were members of the New York chapter of the Ku Klux Clan, and in their hands, they carried…
Mafia Boss Called Bumpy a “Pet” at His Own Table — Bumpy’s 8-Second Response is STILL Whispered March 14th, 1962. 9:32 p.m. Vincent the Chin Gigante sat at Bumpy Johnson’s table at the Palm Cafe, chewing a $40 steak like he owned the place. Around him, six of his crew leaned back in their chairs,…
Frank Costello Sent Bumpy a COFFIN With His Name On It —What Bumpy Sent BACK Made Him Leave New York March 15th, 1957, 9:47 a.m. The mahogany coffin sat in the middle of Bumpy Johnson’s office at Smalls Paradise. It wasn’t a threat. It was a promise carved into the brass name plate. Three words,…
Mafia Boss SLASHED Bumpy’s Face in Front of 300 People — What Bumpy Did With His Made the Boss RUN March 15th, 1956, 10:32 p.m. The Cotton Club was packed wallto-wall, 300 people, jazz music, laughter, the smell of expensive cigars and cheap perfume mixing in the smoke-filled air. The band was playing Duke Ellington….
Bumpy Johnson Held His Dying Mother’s Hand — Then Looked at the 4 Men Who Did It and Said ONE Word March 17th, 1946, 11:23 p.m. Bumpy Johnson’s hands were covered in his mother’s blood. She was lying on the floor of her apartment on a 139th Street, three bullet wounds in her chest, gasping…
The 17-Year-Old Black Kid Who Ran Chicago’s Entire Drug Empire Before Al Capone Could Stop Him Al Capone was afraid of one man, not the FBI. He owned half the agents in Chicago, not the Irish Northsiders. He’d already put bullets in every man standing between him and that territory. Not the Sicilian old guard….
His Funeral Shut Down Harlem for 3 Days — The Crime War That Started the Next Morning Killed 40 Men July 11th, 1968, Harlem, New York, St. Martin’s Episcopal Church on Lennox Avenue. A bronze casket sits at the altar, banked by so many flowers the air inside the church is heavy with the scent…
Mob Boss LAUGHED When Bumpy Walked Into Court ALONE — He Stopped Laughing in 4 Minutes March 14th, 1952. 9:22 a.m. Vincent the Hammer. Torino’s jaw was clenched so tight you could see the veins in his neck from across the courtroom. 15 years. That’s what Torino’s lawyers had promised Bumpy Johnson would get. 15…
1944: Three Hitmen WAITED Inside Bumpy Johnson’s Home — He Made Them Cook Dinner Before He Decide The smell of garlic and olive oil had no business being in a dead man’s apartment. March 17th, 1944, 9:14 p.m. Three men sat around Bumpy Johnson’s kitchen table on West 140th Street. Each one had been paid…
At 78, Joe Walsh FINALLY Confirms The Truth About Don Henley I have committed, I’m [music] in Colorado, it’s too late to regret the James Gang, the Rocky Mountain way is better than the way I had because the music was better. Most people assume Joe Walsh and Don Henley were just bandmates who tolerated…
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