Material presented on The American Mafia history website (http://mafiahistory.us and http://www.onewal.com/) was gathered through decades of research into the history of American organized crime. A childhood interest in the subject blossomed into a full-time obsession in the late 1990s, when I began organizing collected newspaper clippings, notebook pages and index cards. That effort gave rise to this website in September 2002. The website is more of a process than it is a document. Very often new historical data becomes available and causes old assumptions to be revised or abandoned. Over the past few years, many underworld legends appearing on these pages have given way to more defensible statements. And other revisions are sure to be made in the months and years ahead. It is a pleasure to be able to share my interest with you. I welcome your emailed comments, questions, criticisms. I hope that the site is useful to you and that you check in from time to time to see what is new. Copyright © 2011, Thomas Hunt. All rights reserved.




Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Who Was Who filling up

The revised Who Was Who section is growing rapidly. There are about 90 biographies online at this time, ranging alphabetically from Accardo to Licata. More are being added daily. The Who Was Who entries are accessible through the main menu (mafiahistory.us) "People" selection. They can also be accessed directly through http://mob-who.blogspot.com/ .