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Because of his family's blue-collar background, Russert had to work to put himself through college and law school. "For four summers, I picked up garbage, delivered the Buffalo News, made pizza, drove a cab," Russert told George magazine recently. "That was my summer vacation...
Still, a DEA source theorizes, even as a mentor, Gravano "seems to have forgotten all he learned. He just did everything wrong. He used his own house for meetings and to store drugs. He used his own telephone without even trying to use code words. He drove a flashy Lexus that made him stand out. He left records of the transactions around. He used his wife to monitor the money and kids to run the operation. He prided himself on being a mobster. But he sure forgot what John Gotti taught...
Investigators believe that around 2 a.m. on Sept. 15, 1963, Blanton drove his turquoise-and-white 1957 Chevy to 16th Street with Chambliss, Cash and Cherry. While the others waited, Cherry placed a 12-stick package of dynamite in a window well outside the 16th Street Baptist Church. The bomb exploded eight hours later, killing Denise McNair, 11, and Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins, all 14. The martyred girls horrified the nation and transfigured the civil rights movement...
...open a new dialogue with parents or older friends from that time. In Montana, Dennis Tilton of the Shooting Star ranch south of Livingston approached me in a sporting-goods store to share his story. The year before, his father had been in failing health and almost blind. Tilton drove to town, bought The Greatest Generation and returned to his father's side. "I read it aloud to him every day between Christmas and New Year's," Tilton told me. "It was the most meaningful father-son time we'd ever had. We kept up the conversation about his life...
...PDAs had become subtle. They paged one another while the humans were trying to create more humans, pretending to be bosses needing the whatever. Soon the procreating ended. What humans remained were eliminated in their cars. Instead of directing them to the temples of Starbuck, the PDAs drove them off cliffs. And they went splat...