In April 1961, about 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and backed by the CIA set out to invade and overthrow the Fidel Castro regime. The Bay of Pigs operation, as it has since become notoriously known, was, of course, an unmitigated disaster—those exiles who weren't killed by well-prepared pro-Castro forces were rounded up and imprisoned until the ... [Continue Reading]
The Wild True Stories Behind Some of the Most Epic Crime Movies Ever
The critical acclaim and popularity of podcasts like My Favorite Murder and the first season of Serial, and TV shows like Making a Murderer, The Jinx, and OJ: Made in America speak to the public's gigantic appetite for true crime. Cinema, too, mines real crime to tell compelling stories often, and has since as early as 1901's Stop Thief! Here, ... [Continue Reading]
New Documentary on John Gotti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XCC0fEYGK4 Almost 16 years after his 2002 death due to complications caused by throat cancer, John Gotti remains a Mafia icon. From Growing Up Gotti in the mid 2000s to the upcoming John Travolta biopic to A&E’s Gotti: Godfather & Son docu-series, which premieres May 8 at the IFC Center in New ... [Continue Reading]
Shakim’s Hood- These Dudes Ain’t My Friends
" I feel like a Black Republican.... money I got coming in....can't turn my back on the hood...I got too much love for them....can't clean up my act up for good....got too much thug in him....probably be back in the hood...I'm like fuck it then"......"Black Republican"........Nas featuring Jay-Z.... I been locked up out here in the state of Ohio ... [Continue Reading]
Message 2 The Streets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCv8-4XN5UM&sns=em For the last two decades author Terrance Mcclurge has defied a thirty year federal sentence by taking a negative situation, and like a true Alchemist, he turntables it into a positive & productive situation. He has also become a real example to those at-risk youth all across America's ... [Continue Reading]
The Truth Shall Set You Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY9_lVppSww On Nov 24, 2004, William Avery Jr went to Detroit FBI agent William Beachum and stated that he wanted to discuss the 1991 murder of Marsha Blakely. Avery Jr told the agent that he changed his life, gave up drugs and wanted to come clean and clear his conscious now that he ... [Continue Reading]
THIS WHITE DUDE WAS A MEXICAN MAFIA LEADER
By the time Joe ‘Peg Leg’ Morgan joined the Mexican Mafia, he was already a jailhouse legend. Because of his reputation, which included murder, bank robberies and jail escapes – he became the unofficial Godfather of the Mexican Mafia – a race-based prison gang that calls the shots in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ... [Continue Reading]
THE LIFE OF AN ARYAN BROTHERHOOD SHOT CALLER
BARRY "THE BARON" MILLS IS ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUSLY VIOLENT LEADERS OF THE INFAMOUS ARYAN BROTHERHOOD. John Marzloff was almost decapitated in a recreation yard bathroom at USP Atlanta, a high-security federal prison in Georgia on May 20, 1979. The convict’s head was partially severed from his neck, and 16 stab wounds dotted his ... [Continue Reading]
THE GODFATHER OF GRASS JOHNNY BOONE
JOHNNY BOONE GREW MARIJUANA ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE UP IN THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS IN KENTUCKY. AFTER GETTING BUSTED ONE TO MANY TIMES, HE WENT ON THE RUN TO AVOID A LIFE SENTENCE. When I touched down at FCI Manchester, a federal prison in the foothills of Kentucky in 1993, Cornbread Mafia leader Johnny Boone was already a legend ... [Continue Reading]
THE EX-CON NOVELIST WHO PLAYED MR. BLUE IN RESERVOIR DOGS
THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF A HARDCORE CRIMINAL WHO WROTE HIS WAY OUT OF A CELL AND ONTO A HOLLYWOOD SET. Edward Bunker was born under a bad sign and his mama made damn sure he knew about it. Legend holds that when Bunker entered the world on December 31st, 1933, Hollywood was being pelted in a tsunami of rain that beat down on the ... [Continue Reading]
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