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Michael (Mike School) Lascuola Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of Michael (Mike School) Lascuola taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Lascuola's name is written on the reverse side of the image.
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Date
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1944-01-29
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Gus (Skinny) Gargotta Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of Gus (Skinny) Gargotta taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Gargotta's name is written on the reverse side of the image.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Turk Harris Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of Turk Harris taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Harris' name and details of his criminal record are written on the reverse side of the image: [illegible] 6-18-40 3 mo Co Jail Narcotics; [illegible] 1945 pic; 31 arrest; Turk Harris; 4 - 2.
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Date
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1945
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Phil Cusumano Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of Phil Cusumano taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Cusumano's name is written on the reverse side of the image.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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John (Johnny Mag) Mangiaracina Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of John (Johnny Mag) Mangiaracina taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Mangiaracina's alias, Mag, is written on the reverse side of the image.
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Date
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1950-05-03
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Joe Licausi Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of Joe Licausi taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Licausi's name is written on the reverse side of the image
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Object Type
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Photograph
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John (Johnny Mag) Mangiaracina Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of John (Johnny Mag) Mangiaracina taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Mangiaracina's alias, Johnny Mag, is written on the reverse side of the image.
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Date
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1943-08-20
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Phillip (Phil School) Lascuola Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of Phillip (Phil School) Lascuola taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Lascuola's name is written on the reverse side of the image.
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Date
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1943-11-18
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Charles Forte Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of Charles Forte taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Forte's name is written on the reverse side of the image.
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Date
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1943-06-28
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kenneth Perry Greathouse Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of Kenneth Perry Greathouse taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Greathouse's name and identification details are written on the reverse side of the image: RR - 9-22-72; R. Y.; [illegible]; Greathouse Kenneth Perry 116624; 24 6' 1" 220; Brn. Blue Med.; Unemploy 11-17-47
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Date
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1972-04-28
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Michael Angelo Spero Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of Michael Angelo Spero taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Spero's name, identification details, and details of his criminal record are written on the reverse side of the image: Michael Angelo Spero; KC 92-558; WM; DOB 8/15/38; 5' 11"; 155 lbs.; Hair - Black; Eyes - Brown; Residence - 517 Holmes 2nd Fl. Rear Apt; Employment - Gus' Pharmacy (changed to Midtown Pharmacy), 39th & Paseo; & truck driver; FBI No. 156 768 C; 19 previous arrests, 1955-64; Convicted TFIS, Burg. 2nd degree, receiving stolen property.
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Date
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1964~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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John Anthony Costanza Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of John Anthony Costanza taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Costanza's name and details of his criminal record are written on the reverse side of the image: Bufile 92-6071; KC 92-553; WM; DOB 1/28/40, Kansas City, Mo.; 6'; 175 lbs.; Hair - Black; Eyes - Brown; Residence - 328 Olive, Kansas City, Mo.; Employment - 11 Oak Park, 1027 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.; FBI No. 147 209 C; Arrested 19 times by local auth. for traffic vio, larceny interstate ship., inv. burg., inv. bootlegging; Sentenced 2 yrs. 6 mos. Fed. Reformatory on TFIS 3/16/56.
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Date
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1956~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Motorcycle Division - Metropolitan Police Department
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Description
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Panoramic photograph of the Motorcycle Division of the Kansas City Police Department posed in front of Shelter House #1 in Swope Park. A note on the photograph reads: 30 of the 45 Harley Davidsons in use by this department. Cars can be seen in the background.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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John Carl Caldrone Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view mug shot of John Carl Caldrone taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files. Caldrone's name, identification details, and details of his criminal record are written on the reverse side of the image: Bufile 92-7519; KC 92-303; WM; DOB 8/9/28, Kansas City, Mo.; 6' 4"; 200 lbs.; Hair - Brown; Eyes - Blue; Residence - 4904 Norwood, Kansas City, Mo.; Employment - 11 Oak Park, 1027 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.; FBI No. 4 632 504; Arrested 53 times.; Convicted: Burglary, 2 yrs. Reformatory, 11/21/46; Burglary, 4 yrs. MSP, 3/8/54; Burglary, 3 yrs. MSP, 2/26/60.
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Date
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1960~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Brookside Fire Station
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Description
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Photograph, looking south, circa late 1970s of the parking lot behind the buildings at 22 West 63rd Street in the Brookside shopping area. At the time of the photograph, the building housed the Police & Kansas City Fire Station No. 23, which closed by 1979. Meiners Thriftway Grocery Store at 21 West 63rd Street is visible in the center of the photo.
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Date
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1970~/1979~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Joe (Little Joe) Parello Mug Shot
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Description
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Side and front view full body mug shot of Joe (Little Joe) Parello taken by the Kansas City Police Department and kept by the Kansas City Star in their mafia and mob activity research files, Parello's identification details are written on the front of the image: 2-19-48; # 4674; KC. MO. P.D.; # 61157 Joe Parello; 53 5' 7" 160. Parello's name is written on the reverse side of the image.
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Date
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1948-02-19
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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SC205 Organized Crime Files - Series 2: Kansas City Gangsters -Italian
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Description
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This series contains files on criminals of Italian descent suspected of having ties to organized crime, mafia, and mob activity in Kansas City. Items include: mug shots, photographs, KCPD and FBI records, short biographies, and newspaper clippings. While most of the documents are undated, many contain arrest records from the 1930s until the year 1950. This series is arranged alphabetically by surname.
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Date
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1934/1964
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Judges Tosses Library Arrest Lawsuit
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Description
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Overview of the dismissed lawsuit by Jeremy Rothe-Kushel against an off-duty former police detective who arrested him during a 2016 speech by Ambassador Denis Ross at the Kansas City Public Library Plaza branch. Rothe-Kushel and a library staffer were arrested by private security during the inaugural Truman and Israel Lecture. Issues include freedom of speech, whether or not this was a public or private event, and confusion between library staff and paid security about criteria for arrest and removal from the event.
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Date
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2020-02-13
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, with a photo and brief history of the Kansas City Municipal Airport (later called the Downtown Airport) "between North Kansas City and Kansas City proper," dedicated in 1927 and opened in 1929 with four airlines and reorganization after "cancellation of government mail contracts" in 1934. Other featured articles include: “Snapshots of the Week” (p. 1), with quips including “An iron box in old Convention Hall contains letters written by locally prominent people of 1899 to their successors of 2001. Let's see, that ought to be along about the tail-end of the reign of Pendergast the Third”; “First Ward to Ward Parkway” (pp. 3 & 4), photo and description of the new Jackson County Courthouse and plans for two more "Pendergast Pyramids"--a municipal auditorium and city hall, all constructed with Tom Pendergast's Ready Mixed Concrete company--in an article about the Pendergast machine's rule starting in the First Ward in the late 1800s and running to the present with Boss Tom's mansion on Ward Parkway; and “May We Present Isaac Katz” (p. 5), photo and biographical article about Isaac Katz, "owner of a newly purchased cigar and confectionery store at the corner of 12th and McGee" in 1917, changing it to the Katz Drug Store that year due to a business law of the Herbert Hoover administration and including a description of his life and career, emigrating to Kansas City from Poland and called "the David Belasco of the retail drug business"; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, letters to the editor, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-03-15
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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