Directory of New Orleans Family Resources

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Sites relating to the New Orleans, LA, crime family.

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• Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Carlos Marcello

  http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmarcello.htm
  Explores the New Orleans Mafia boss's relationship to a possible conspiracy against JFK.

• Deep Water - Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia

  http://jpmacheca.blogspot.com/
  Promo site for a biography of Macheca. Includes book synopsis and slideshow, partial bibliography, timeline from 1840s through Hennessy assassination of 1890 and Crescent City lynchings in 1891, and links to New Orleans and underworld history sites.

• House Select Committee on Assassinations: Carlos Marcello

  http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/jfkinfo/jfk9/hscv9e.htm
  Portion of a government report linking the New Orleans crime boss with a possible anti-Kennedy conspiracy. Report includes Marcello's background and underworld career.

• New York Times: Carlos Marcello, 83, Reputed Crime Boss

  http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/03/us/carlos-marcello-83-reputed-crime-boss-in-new-orleans-area.html
  Obituary for the longtime Mafia leader of New Orleans.

• The American Mafia: America's First Mafia War: New Orleans, 1868-1872

  http://www.onewal.com/a016/f_nolafeud.html
  Article by Thomas Hunt and Martha Macheca Sheldon about the first recorded Sicilian underworld feud in the United States.

• The American Mafia: New Orleans Crime Bosses

  http://www.onewal.com/maf-b-no.html
  Biographical notes on the leaders of the Crescent City's underworld.

• Wikipedia: Carlos Marcello

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Marcello
  Biographical essay on the New Orleans crime boss.

 

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