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...sworn blood brotherhood with a group and then "squeals" on them be trusted in anything? I would not believe J. Valachi except where the truth would help him. His present action shows you are right in describing him as a "two-bit punk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 18, 1963 | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

Valachi is an aging (60), two-bit punk-once a thief, a dope pusher, a willing killer for syndicate chiefs, now turned stool pigeon. Yet last week he found U.S. Senators treating him with patronizing respect. John McClellan addressed him warmly as "Joe," inquired if he wasn't tired from testifying, quickly adjourned the hearings until this week when the mug from the Mafia said he was indeed weary. In fact, Valachi's act was introduced-with some pride-by none other than Bobby Kennedy, Attorney General of the U.S. Boasted Bobby: "For the first time an insider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Killers in Prison | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...quote the Rev. James Bevel as saying: "Some punk who calls himself the President has the audacity to tell people to go slow. I'm not prepared to be humiliated by white trash the rest of my life, including Mr. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 6, 1963 | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

Cries the Rev. James Bevel, a Mississippi official of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: "Some punk who calls himself the President has the audacity to tell people to go slow. I'm not prepared to be humiliated by white trash the rest of my life, including Mr. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The Awful Roar | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...little like being the fastest gun in the West," mused Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly and 265-lb. strongman of his state's Democratic politics. "Every punk who comes around wants to try you out for size." Unruh knew what he was talking about: he was, after all, being shot at from all sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Shooting at Big Daddy | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

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