Updates done to the organized crime history website
The unpublished autobiography of turncoat New York Mafioso Joseph Valachi is an important primary source of information on American Mafia history. The document, which runs 1,201 pages, was written by Valachi while in federal custody in 1964. Used as source material for The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas, Valachi’s document has been available to the …
UPDATE (Oct. 25, 2020): The first 1,045 pages (and 1,078 pages in all) are available online. There are just 122 pages of Valachi’s text left to digitize and format. Part 1 – Complete, 313 pgs, numbered 1 thru 299*. Part 2 – Complete, 307 pgs, numbered 300 thru 599*. Part 3 – Complete, 300 pgs, …
Additional pages of Joe Valachi’s autobiography, The Real Thing, are now on the website ( Click here ). Readers are cautioned that groups of pages remain unavailable to us and some of the available pages have missing portions. Update 5 Feb 2015: About 150 full and partial pages of the Valachi manuscript are now available …
We have begun the process of making the autobiographical notes of Joseph Valachi, a manuscript titled, The Real Thing, available online for the free access of those interested in the subject. The manuscript is the foundation of the 1968 Peter Maas book, The Valachi Papers. In it, Valachi recalls his early personal life, his career …
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