Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster (80 page)

Irish Suze

Irish-Italian animosity

Italian gangsters;
See also
Mafia;
specific gangsters

Italian immigrants

Jacob Javits Convention Center

James, Beau

jazz

Al Capone and

Cotton Club and

dirty jazz

heroin and

Kansas City

New Orleans

Volstead Act and

Jewish gangsters;
See also specific gangsters

Joseph P. Ryan Association

Kansas City

Democrats

dirty jazz

early years

Tammany Hall similarity

vice at the root

West Bottom

See also
Pendergast Machine; Pendergast, James; Pendergast, Thomas Joseph “T. J.”

Kazan, Elia

Keefe, Rose

Kefauver Hearings

Kelley, Honest John

Kelly, Jimmy

Kelly, Kevin

Kelly, Paul

Kenna, Michael “Hinky Dinky,”

Big Jim Colosimo and

Big Tim Sullivan and

Carter Harrison, Jr. and

election violence and

First Ward Ball and

formative years

mediating gambling wars

Michael Coughlin alliance

Mont Tennes and

in New York

personality, style

political life

prostitution defense fund

Quincy Street Boys and

Richard Croker and

soup kitchen goodwill

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald “Jack” (J.F.K.)

appointing Bobby attorney general

assassination

assassination plot

congressman

Frank Sinatra and

Hollywood friends

Judith Campbell affair

Marilyn Monroe affair

into national spotlight

political introduction

presidency and Papa John

Sam Giancana and

West Virginia primary

World War II affair

Kennedy, Joseph P.

Al Capone and

attorney general Bobby and

background sources

bank president

birth, formative years

buying elections

buying James Curley

Carlos Marcello and

Chicago Merchandise Mart purchase

dirty little secret

double-crossing Mafia

education

Eunice Pringle and

Evelyn Crowell affair

F.D.R. campaign

floating J.F.K. candidacy to Mob

Frank Costello and

Frank Sinatra and

government appointments

Hialeah Race Track ownership

Hickey eyes

Honey Fitz and

importing Canadian whiskey

inferiority complex

intimidating stare

Kennedy, Joseph P. (
continued
)

J. Edgar Hoover and

J.F.K. election manipulation

Johnny Roselli and

maintaining upperworld reputation

marriage

Meyer Lansky and

movie industry career

Murray Humphreys and

1925 wealth estimate

Owney Madden and

Pantages Affair

personality, style

relationships forged

resisting RFK crime investigation

retreating from public life

Richard Daley and

Sam Giancana and

Santo Trafficante and

Scotch distributor

stock manipulation

Tropicana Hotel & Casino interest

Walter Winchell and

whiskey baron

Kennedy, Patrick Joseph “P. J.,”

Kennedy, Robert F. “Bobby”

anti-Mafia crusade

as attorney general

Carlos Marcello and

Fidel Castro hit and

Frank Costello and

Jimmy Hoffa and

McCarthy Subcommittee

Papa Joe and

reaction to J.F.K. assassination

Sam Giancana and

Valachi hearings

Kennedy, William

Kenny, Alice

Killeen, Donald

Killeen, Eddie

Killeen, Kenneth

Killeen Gang

King, Tom

King Mike.
See
McDonald, Michael Cassius “King Mike”

kite

knockout potions

Know-Nothing Party

Kobler, John

Kohlert, John

Kriesberger, Lottie

“La Cosa Nostra” (LCN).
See
Mafia

labor organizations

Industrial Revolution and

Molly Maguires

Pinkerton Agency and

pre-20th Century

strikebreakers and;
See also
Farley, James

See also
International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)

Lafitte, Jean

Lager Beer Riot

Lame Jimmy

“landlady racket,”

Lansky, Meyer

Atlantic City conference

on Irish role

Jimmy Hines and

Joe Kennedy and

prominence

Lazia, Johnny

LCN (La Cosa Nostra).
See
Mafia

Leone, Vinnie

Liebowitz, Samuel

Little Caesar

Little Hellions

Live Oak Boys

Lizzie the Dove

Local

Lomasnmey, Martin “the Mahatma,”

London, Jack

Lonergan, Anna

Lonergan, Peg Leg

longshoremen battles

Lovett, William “Wild Bill,”

Lowenstein, Alfred

loyalty

Luchesse crime family

Luciano, Lucky

Atlantic City conference

Combine involvement

dope success

handling Mustache Pete’s

on Irish role

Jack “Legs” Diamond and

Jimmy Hines and

Paul Kelly and

payoffs

prominence/self-promotion

Lufthansa Heist

Lyons, Danny

Lyons, Jack

Maas, Peter

MacKenzie, Eddie

Madden, Owney

Atlantic City conference

Big Bill Dwyer alliance made

bootlegging operation;
See also
Combine, the

boxing business

daily routine

Dutch Schultz and

first killing

formative years