1978 mob hits across the New York City area

This is FOX 5 News archival reporting from 1978 after Salvatore Briguglio and several other mob connected associates were found dead in rubouts across the New York City region.

New Jersey Teamster Boss Anthony Provenzano was found guilty of extortion the day of this John Miller report.

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[bobbymanganaro]

The mob may be smaller and in the shadows nowadays. People really have no idea how big it was going back 100 years.

[wes]

News was so much more pure than it is now, I wish I could live for one wk back then.

[FormerlyNYVulgarian]

Young John Miller! This man is a NY staple!

[crossbraswell]

The newsman knows more than any podcast or video commentary I’ve ever seen

[CallofDoobie]

Please upload every one of these you have. I miss these days

[twoshady]

the mob must have hated it when car trunks got smaller

[tprski]

This is what journalism looks like. Now the journalists are in with the crooks..

[margiesbeauty]

This type of history was real and nothing was hidden

[terranceaddison]

Seeing that hand sticking out of that chilling 😬

[RRDB]

amazing ...how this here automatically plays right after a sopranos clip I watched🤦‍♀️🤣

[EYE_GOTCHA]

2:00 Aww, his hairdo is SO 1978 and takes me back. Good times!

[dquinn]

0:55 I vividly remember walking by that murder scene on the morning of March 23 1978 on my way to school, It was in front of a bar with yellow police tape around it. From The New York Slimes: "Americus Scotes, a 48-year-old trucker, was walking his dog at 6:30 A.M. yesterday near his home on East Fourth Street, near Avenue U, in the Sheepshead Bay section, when he was fatally sh0t in the head and chest." Note how young freelance reporter John Miller was here... Age 19...

[RochesterNY]

They got some incorrect info back then, but good video

[johnishikawa]

Holy smokes-I lived on avenue X in Brooklyn back then-this crime scene-i.e. the Prezenzano murder-must be walking distance to my high school, Sheapshead Bay High School, in the sheapshead bay section of brooklyn.I remember that a bunch of old timers-like that Carmine Galante-were released from prison like in 74', 75' time period. They looked like a bunch of old grandfatherly types in the newspapers-with their fedora hats, and canes. But just them being on the streets again seemed to...trigger...all sorts of explosive side effects. The papers( Daily News and New York Post ) said it could be a "full scale gang war"...some kind of power struggle. Another one released back then was Joseph " Joe Beck" Dipalermo. They said that he once tried to give Joe Valachi a poison sandwich in federal prison back around 1960. Interesting, this news footage from 78'.

[hamzak]

0:57 Michael Franzese was made after the hit on this guy, Americus Scotese. According to mob informant Sal Miciotta, Franzese was the getaway driver for this hit and they both were formally inducted into the Colombo Family after this hit.

[jerrylee]

It funny to hear how far off they were

[theestallion]

Mob was no fucking joke man not a force to be reckoned with shit!!!

[jdefeo]

Know every one of these guys as a kid. Nicest guys you can ever meet. No joke. And very generous

[thatsnotmyname]

Back in the days where gangsters weren't just drugged out less intelligent individuals doing it just to rap about it.

[marlock]

I really want to see that weed segment.