All language subtitles for 208 Last Man Standing

(narrator)
Previously on "The Making
of the Mob: Chicago."

After the death
of their mentor, Al Capone,

Tony Accardo and Paul Ricca

assume control
of the Chicago Outfit

and thanks to their expansion
into Las Vegas,

their empire is bigger
and more profitable than ever.

But now they face a new threat.

Ambitious young attorney,
Robert F. Kennedy,

who targets the Outfit's
most visible member,

acting boss, Sam Giancana.

Would you tell us anything about
any of your operations,

or are you just going to giggle
every time I ask you a question?

I decline to answer
because I honestly believe

my answer might tend
to incriminate me.

(narrator)
But Giancana only makes
the situation worse.

Have you lost your mind?!

Well, what am
I supposed to do?

You fix it.

(narrator)
With the relationship
between the two

Mafia kingpins
falling apart

and pressure from the federal
government mounting,

the final chapter of the Outfit
is about to begin,

and the fate of Al Capone's
criminal empire

hangs in the balance.

I want to hit them
where it hurts most.

Get your hands off of me!

-SubRip by Rapunzel-

(narrator)
Head of the Chicago Mob,
Tony Accardo

sits at the top of
the country's most powerful

criminal syndicate,
the Outfit.

But now, he's facing
his biggest challenge yet

after his second in command,
acting boss Sam Giancana

becomes a target
of the federal government,

drawing more unwanted attention
to the organization.

There's a degree of flamboyance
to Sam Giancana, which in a way

is bad for the Outfit
and bad for organized crime

because they really like to fly
under the radar.

And Tony Accardo
got upset with him.

♪♪

(narrator)
But just as tensions between
the two mob kingpins

reach a breaking point,

one phone call changes
everything.

(phone ringing)

This is Sam.

(Tony)
Joe Kennedy?

What does he want?

A sit down.

What do you
think he's after?

I don't know.

But if he wants to talk,

I think we should hear
what he has to say.

All right.

Set the meeting.

♪♪

(narrator)
Joseph P. Kennedy
is a self-made businessman

whose net worth is valued at an
estimated $300 million dollars,

placing him among the top
20 richest people in America.

Now, he's using his power
to build a political dynasty,

and he'll stop at nothing
to make it happen.

(chatter and piano playing)

Well?

What can we
do for you?

Well, this is
a little unusual.

The upcoming election...

My son is running
for office.

I'm sure you've
read about him.

He's on all
the magazine covers.

John.

John was born
to be president.

So, what are we
talking about here?

What if I could use a little
help from your organization?

Okay...

We're listening.

I understand that

you have a lot of pull with
the union vote in Illinois.

Those electoral votes
could get him across the line.

That could be
the little push

that could make
all the difference

And why would we do that?

No offense, but your other
son's an asshole.

Hey.

No, no...
No, it's fine.

I'm aware of the trouble
Robert has been causing you.

Well, maybe I could do
something about that.

You deliver the union vote
in Illinois for John,

and I will make
sure that Robert

doesn't pose any
more problems for you.

We'll think about it.

Fair enough.

(T.J. English)
Joe Kennedy had connections to
the Outfit that ran very deep,

and as far back as the 1920s,
he was meeting

and doing business with
prominent bootleggers.

And so Kennedy is reigniting
his relationship

with underworld
figures in Chicago

in anticipation of the election.

♪♪

(Tony)
President in our favor.

Could solve a lot of problems.

Yeah.

And Robert Kennedy
gone for good.

Why not?

(narrator)
Sam Giancana's latest assignment

could get him back in good
standing with Accardo.

All he has to do is help
John F. Kennedy

get elected president.

(Frank Cullotta)
I remember, guys were sent to
all of us guys,

and they said, "We had to get
Kennedy in office."

And I said "Who wants to vote
for that guy?" You know.

Sam wants it done.

"If we get this Irishman in
office, we got it made."

(narrator)
Kennedy's campaign captures
the imagination of the country.

But as election day nears,

his fight against Richard Nixon
for the White House tightens,

turning the Outfit's
home state of Illinois

into a key battleground.

(Robert Grant)
In that 1960 election,
Illinois was a critical state.

And look how close these
elections are,

and they're decided by a county
here and a county there.

It throws
the entire election off.

(news reporter)
A record number of Americans,

upwards of 67 million
go to the polls

to elect the 35th President of
the United States.

Citizens from Maine to Hawaii
record their choices...

Okay here?

Okay.

Good, three more times.

Same guy.
Change.

So where do we stand?

The votes, uh,
are still coming in, okay?

Those union votes
will come, I promise you.

You'll see a peak, you will.

You better not mess this up.

I know.

♪♪

(narrator)
With the race so close,

the winner isn't declared
until the next day.

(Richard Nixon)
While there are still some
results still to come in,

uh, if the present
trend continues,

uh, Mr. Kennedy,
Senator Kennedy

will be the next
President of the United States.

(crowd cheering)

We just got a president.

We did it.

(laughs)
Yeah.

Unbelievable.

To us.

To us.

(glasses clink)

And the Presidency.

And our President.

Good job.

Did you just say
something nice to me?

Shut up.

(T.J. English)
If you look at the numbers of
that election,

you could say that
the Outfit delivering

those votes in Chicago
were instrumental

in getting Jack Kennedy
elected President.

(narrator)
For Giancana,
JFK's election is a huge triumph

that proves
the disgraced gangster

still has something to offer,

and he wastes
no time celebrating.

Everybody drink,
come on!

That is good.
(laughing)

(David Eisenbach)
Sam Giancana is kind of
a funny gangster, um...

He would boast about stealing
the election for Kennedy.

Whoo! To me and us
and mainly the ladies.

(laughter)

♪♪

(narrator)
But just weeks after
John F. Kennedy takes office,

his brother, Robert is named
Attorney General.

The face of organized
crime has changed.

Though crimes
of violence still occur,

the modern criminal has become
more sophisticated

about the planning and
perpetration of his activities.

And we are working very hard to
develop a coordinated effort

to curb the hoodlums
and racketeers

and put them in jail.

The mob is outraged.

They were angry
about the fact that--

"How could this be happening
after what we did

for the father,
for Joe Kennedy?"

(narrator)
After months of failing
to put a stop to Giancana,

Robert F. Kennedy now
has the power he needs

to launch a full scale
investigation into the mobster.

♪♪

(narrator)
To the Chicago Mob's surprise,

when Robert F. Kennedy
takes office

as the new U.S. Attorney General
in 1961,

he makes his top priority
going after organized crime.

And one of his primary targets
is the Outfit.

Where do we stand
on Vegas?

(man)
Still nothing.

Nevada's Attorney General
has been unresponsive.

Then get him
on the phone,

and tell him if Nevada
won't cooperate,

I will raid every
one of their casinos.

I will shut down gambling across
the entire state if I have to.

Yes, sir.

And then in Chicago?

How many agents
do I have on the ground?

Ten.

Ten?

No, I need 60 agents
down there immediately.

I want to know what
Giancana and Accardo

are up to every
second of the day.

If those two buy a stick of gum,
I wanna know about it.

Absolutely, sir.

Good.

It's an interesting question
about why Robert Kennedy

was so determined
to go after the Mafia.

Robert Kennedy did see the world
in black and white terms,

much more than his brother.

He sees going after organized
crime as a justified mission

and as a way
of building his own fame

and, and his launching
his own political career.

Good?
(man 1)
Yes, sir.

(man 2)
Yes, sir.
Gentlemen.

♪♪

(narrator)
As Kennedy's investigation
ramps up,

he goes out of his way to target
mob boss Sam Giancana.

(line ringing)

(woman)
Hello?

Hey, sweetheart,
how are you?

Missing you.

You visiting soon?
(Sam)
Yeah,

I've been meaning
to come out there as, uh,

soon as possible.

How about Saturday?

(woman)
In time for dinner?

Yeah, I'll take you
to your favorite spot.

Kennedy was willing
to go after the mob

by any means necessary.

A lot of it was done through
surveillance and wiretaps

that were unauthorized by law.

(narrator)
Over the coming months,

Giancana is followed
everywhere he goes.

♪♪

(David)
Sam Giancana is being trailed
by federal agents 24/7.

They stake out his house.

They're literally following
him on the golf course.

This was without
question harassment.

(cocktail music playing,
dining room chatter)

(dishes clanking)

Why aren't you eating?

(taking deep breath)

(John Binder)
The FBI clearly knew that
Giancana was fairly unstable.

He was prone
to violent outbursts,

getting very, very upset.

So, their strategy
is to try and get to him

by needling him
in various ways.

They're just trying
to get a rise out of you.

Don't give them
the satisfaction.

Sam...

(man)
Something the matter?

I catch you two snooping
around me again,

and I promise you
it'll be the last time.

Are you threatening
a federal agent?

♪♪

We're going.

♪♪

(birds chirping)

♪♪

(man)
Sir, I think you
want to see this.

(pen top clicks)

Is this a joke?

No, sir.

(narrator)
With the FBI tailing
his every move,

Sam Giancana decides to hit back

and sues the federal government
for harassment.

♪♪

(narrator)
After being wiretapped
by Robert F. Kennedy

and tailed around the clock
by the FBI,

acting mob boss Sam Giancana
makes an unprecedented move

and files a lawsuit against
the federal government.

(Judge)
Mr. Giancana?

The court finds in your favor.

(courtroom murmuring)

Court is adjourned.

(narrator)
In the summer of 1963,
a judge rules that the FBI

has gone too far,

ordering them to limit their
surveillance on Giancana.

(David)
As a private citizen,
he's being harassed

by these federal agents,
so, you know,

"Let me take 'em to court."

He's got nothing to lose.

He kicks in this lawsuit
and he wins.

♪♪

(Tony)
Prick.

(narrator)
But Giancana's victory
is short-lived.

(Hillel Levin)
By suing the government,
Giancana really put

a target on his back
in a way that

was very reminiscent of Capone,

I'm sure, for Accardo.

(narrator)
Fed up with Giancana's antics,
Tony Accardo calls a meeting

with his co-boss, Paul Ricca,
who's recently been released

after serving
27 months in prison.

(Tony)
First, he kidnaps
Eddie Jones.

I let it slide.

Then he goes to the Tribune.

I turn a blind eye.

Now he sues the FBI.

I'm done.

If he carries on this way,

he's gonna get us
all busted.

What do you suppose we do?

We settle things...

permanently.

All right.

I won't get in the way.

(John Binder)
Well, in organized crime,
you don't want to kill anybody

you don't have to, but...

the Giancana lawsuit
against the FBI

is probably another straw
on the camel's back.

Paul Ricca finally has enough.

♪♪

(TV commercial announcer)
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From stem to stern, plenty of
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and seat width for,
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And you can ride in comfort
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even when it rains.

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(dramatic music playing on TV)

(TV announcer)
Ladies and gentlemen,

we have a bit of information.

President Kennedy and
Texas Governor John Connelly

shot by an assassin
today in Dallas, Texas.

We do not know officially at
this moment

as to whether the President
is alive or dead.

(narrator)
Before Ricca and Accardo can put
their plan in motion,

an event changes
the course of history.

♪♪

On November 22, 1963,

President John F. Kennedy,

the man the Outfit helped elect,

is shot and killed in Dallas
at the age of 46.

♪♪

♪♪

(narrator)
After his brother
is assassinated,

Robert F. Kennedy steps down

from his post
as Attorney General.

I would say no group benefited
more from the assassination

of John F. Kennedy
than the Outfit.

Bobby Kennedy
as Attorney General had put

tremendous resources
into investigating

and indicting
organized crime figures.

And those investigations dropped
to almost nothing

after, uh, the assassination.

(birds chirping)

(news reporter)
This he describes as the
government of organized

gambling, narcotics peddling...

(narrator)
But a new threat
to the Outfit soon emerges

when the government
begins an investigation

into Kennedy's assassination,
with rumors already circulating

that the mafia
could have been involved.

There are a lot of people who
think organized crime

had something to do with it.

Was Lee Harvey Oswald
a mob hit man?

And here's
Jack Ruby just coming in

and shooting Lee Harvey Oswald
on live television.

How could this happen?

Nobody knows, and I don't know
that we ever will.

(narrator)
With pressure on the mob
intensifying,

Accardo knows it's no time
for a high profile hit,

so he has to come up
with another way

to get rid of his
second-in-command for good.

♪♪

You wanted to see me?

Sit down.

(exhaling)

Take those
stupid glasses off.

Take them off.

Happy?

I'm going to lay out what's
going to happen very clearly.

And I don't want to hear a word
out of your mouth

until I'm finished.

At which point,

the only words I want to hear
from you

are, "Yes, I understand."

What the hell is this?

What did I just say?

After today,
you're gonna have

nothing more
to do with the organization.

Immediately after
you leave here,

you're going to pack your bags
for Mexico,

and you're never coming back.

You're really letting
him do this?

This is coming
from both of us.

(Tony)
Hey...

Hey.

You should be thankful you get
to leave with your life.

It's the best deal you're
ever going to get from me.

(Hillel)
The power of Accardo
at that stage was so absolute,

he really didn't have to kill
Giancana.

He could truly just push him
aside,

as far aside as Mexico.

(narrator)
Tony Accardo and Paul Ricca

force Sam Giancana
out of the organization.

But even with Giancana gone,

Accardo knows the Feds won't
stop coming after them.

♪♪

(narrator)
If Tony Accardo
has learned anything

from his mentor Al Capone,

it's that a high profile
in the Mafia never pays off.

And now, Accardo's determined
to tie up loose ends

before the government has
a chance to take him down.

Tony Accardo was very, very good
at his chosen profession.

He was very, very good at
avoiding getting imprisoned.

Accardo was also good at
insulating himself from things,

and therefore made it harder

for the federal government
to get at him.

(footsteps approach)

Gentlemen,
good to see you.

Good to see you.

Good to see you.
Take a seat, please.

(narrator)
On March 27, 1967, Accardo sells
one of his top Vegas hotels,

the Desert Inn,

to eccentric billionaire,
Howard Hughes.

(Michael Green)
Now, when Howard Hughes
buys the DI,

he's cashing out
organized crime interests.

They don't have the
organizational responsibility.

Now it's Hughes' problem.

And they get a big influx of
cash because Hughes had money.

(narrator)
Accardo's deal with Hughes

ushers in a new era
in Las Vegas.

(Michael)
Hughes ends up cashing out
the Outfit

and other investors
at the Sands.

He ends up buying
the Frontier Hotel,

which always had connections
to the Outfit in Chicago.

♪♪

(narrator)
Then, in 1969,
the Nevada Gaming Commission

makes it legal for corporations
to buy casinos.

(Michael)
The Corporate Gaming Act
is Nevada's effort

to attract Wall Street capital.

This is their chance to
legitimize the industry.

(narrator)
The Outfit cashes out
more of their casinos,

and according to some,

they walk away with an estimated
$400 million in today's money.

♪♪

(Meyer Lansky II)
When the Chicago Outfit exited
Las Vegas at the time,

they knew their time
was coming to an end.

They sold out for a good profit.

They had their day,
and they moved on.

♪♪

(narrator)
But shortly after the Outfit
cashes out of Vegas,

Tony Accardo receives
devastating news.

♪♪

On October 11, 1972,
his friend of 40 years

who served with him
under Al Capone

and helped create
one of the most powerful

crime organizations
in the country,

Paul Ricca,
dies of a heart attack.

♪♪

Paul Ricca,
his legacy was ushering in

the reign of Tony Accardo.

He was someone who emulated
a lot of corporate America.

This was something he initiated
which Accardo picked up.

They were really looking at
major businesses

and how they were organized
to determine

how they would organize the mob
here in Chicago.

♪♪

(John Kass)
Paul "The Waiter" Ricca,
the boss of organized crime

in Chicago
and in the United States,

and the reason people
don't hear about him

is because he was
a master criminal.

And master criminals don't
want to be heard about.

(narrator)
Not long after
Paul Ricca's death,

Tony Accardo gets more bad news.

You're not
going to like this.

What is it?

It's Giancana.

He's back in town.

Word is, he's been
talking with the Feds.

Thanks for
letting me know.

♪♪

That prick.

(narrator)
With nearly three decades worth
of information on the Outfit,

Accardo knows that Giancana
is not only a threat to him

but to the future
of the entire Chicago Mafia.

♪♪

♪♪

(narrator)
After seven years of forced
exile in Mexico,

Sam Giancana,
the number one threat

to Outfit boss Tony Accardo
is back in town.

♪♪

And word quickly gets out

that he's talking
to the Feds.

♪♪

If Sam Giancana had walked
into the FBI office

and offered his services,

it would have been
a golden opportunity.

He would have been a
high enough ranking official.

It would have been
unheard of cooperation.

♪♪

(Sitar music playing)

♪♪

(car door opens)

(car door closes)

(former bodyguard)
Sam!

In here.

I'm cooking sausage,
you want some?

Yeah.

How was Mexico?

Mexico...

You'd love it
down there.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Yeah, but it's good
to be back.

I'm gonna make some
new moves out here.

Joe know about it?

He won't like it.

But he never liked
anything I did anyway.

The one thing
I've learned, though--

No one's gonna
look out for you

except for you,
you know?

(gunshot through silencer)

(three gunshots)

(narrator)
On June 19, 1975,
Sam Giancana is shot to death

in the basement of his suburban
home in Oak Park, Illinois,

by an unknown assassin.

♪♪

(Robert Grant)
One speculation is,
whoever came,

he knew personally,

which would be natural,
you know,

because he was at risk
at that point.

He would not have
let anybody in that house

who didn't befriend him.

♪♪

(Robert Lombardo)
Giancana's strengths
as a gangster

was his ability to make money,

his ability to use violence.

(loud grunt)

His weaknesses were that,
the publicity that he garnered,

he became just,
just too hot to handle.

Again, again!

(Robert)
He had to be removed
'cause he just knew too much.

♪♪

(narrator)
To this day, speculation
surrounds Giancana's death.

♪♪

But for some,
there's little doubt.

♪♪

Absolutely, Tony Accardo ordered
the ultimate murder

of Sam Giancana.

You do not whack anybody
out in that group

without getting permission,
plain and simple.

♪♪

(news reporter)
Private funeral services for
Sam Giancana were held today

and John Drummond was there.

(narrator)
Despite Giancana's status
in the Outfit...

(news reporter)
...were on hand to pay
their last respects,

Outfit bigwigs were conspicuous
by their absence

at the services held at the...

(narrator)
...Tony Accardo orders
that no member

of the Chicago Outfit
attend his funeral.

♪♪

Then, just over a month
after Giancana's death,

outspoken former Outfit partner,
Jimmy Hoffa, disappears

the same day he agreed to meet
with two men

connected to the mob.

♪♪

(Michael)
When Jimmy Hoffa was killed,
my mother said,

"They threw him
in the Detroit River,

and nobody can survive that."

Well, who killed Hoffa?

It's pretty clear there are
organized crime connections.

And whoever did it, the Chicago
Outfit had to be okay with it.

♪♪

(narrator)
Jimmy Hoffa's remains
are never found,

but many believe
his disappearance

is all part of Accardo's plan to
tie up loose ends in the Mafia

so that he can finally leave
his life as a mob boss behind.

♪♪

(narrator)
In the wake of Al Capone's
enormous success

and spectacular downfall,

only one Outfit member
from his era remains--

his former bodyguard,
Tony Accardo.

♪♪

Tony Accardo's legacy
as a gangster,

I would have to say was probably
one of the smoothest...

I almost want to use
the word "unassuming,"

but if you knew Accardo,
he knew what he was doing.

♪♪

(narrator)
To maintain a low profile,
Accardo kept a job

as a beer salesman
for Fox Head Brewing Company,

even filing
income tax returns.

But over the years,
he also built

a diverse business portfolio

that included trucking
companies, restaurants,

coal and lumber operations,
earning him an untold fortune.

(whistles)

(loud grunt)

♪♪

(Hillel)
I mean, you look at this
individual who had

a sixth grade education,
and he becomes,

over the course of his
50-year reign of the mob,

an extremely
sophisticated person

who really took organized crime
to a level

that no other
mob leader took it.

♪♪

Tony Accardo
should be known to people

as a true legend
in organized crime.

♪♪

And he isn't.

And I think
he wanted it that way.

♪♪

(narrator)
In 1992, after a career
in the mafia

spanning nearly 70 years,

the mob boss dies peacefully,
surrounded by family...

♪♪

having never spent
a day in prison.

♪♪

♪♪

But while Accardo
earns a reputation

as one of the most powerful
mafia kingpins ever,

The Outfit's success goes back

to the early days of
bootlegging,

when Al Capone's mentor,
Johnny Torrio,

decided to structure the Chicago
mob to run like a business.

We'll be producing
enough booze to supply

every one of your joints
for pennies on the dollar.

Johnny Torrio, more than anybody
else, invented the concept

of organized crime
and of syndicates

and of lines of authority.

♪♪

(narrator)
Al Capone continued
Torrio's methods,

but also expanded the Italian
gang's grip on the city

by ruthlessly
taking over territory.

We need to hit them,
hit them hard.

(gunfire)

His hold on Chicago rackets,

and eventually rackets beyond,
was extraordinary.

This is what happens.

No, please--
(groaning)

♪♪

Maybe of all the gangsters
that ever lived,

Al Capone is the most famous.

What made him stand out
was a certain charisma,

was a style that Al had.

He wasn't afraid to express
himself vocally...

There's enough business
here for all of us

without killing each other
in the streets like animals.

(William)
...and to be an outgoing guy.

That, combined with
the historical record

of what he did,
in terms of his violence

and the way that he lived,

it just makes him memorable
for all eternity.

♪♪

(narrator)
In the wake of Capone's success,

Frank Nitti, Paul Ricca,
and Tony Accardo

took what they learned
from the kingpin

and expanded the Outfit

to become the largest organized
crime group in America.

This is a beautiful
ledger sheet.

♪♪

(narrator)
In the process,

Al Capone
and the Chicago Outfit

changed the course
of American history.

We just got
a President.

New York gets the publicity,
New York is the soap opera.

But for most of
the 20th century,

Chicago and the leaders,
who you don't even know,

were the ones who ran things
from one end to the other--

the gambling industry,
the movie industry.

Always a pleasure.

That was the genius
of the Outfit.

-SubRip by Rapunzel-