The Rise and Fall of New York's Most Corrupt Mob Neighborhood: Rochester
James Sullivan
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In October 1970, dynamite tore through a church and a synagogue in Rochester, New York — and the police spent months hunting radicals who never existed. The bombs were a Mafia diversion, and they were only the first move in a story where the detectives ended up as crooked as the gangsters they were chasing, forging the evidence that convicted an entire crime family. When that lie collapsed and the bosses walked free, the war over who owned Rochester turned Kodak's smug company town into a battlefield of car bombs, snipers, and a boss machine-gunned in a motel room off the Thruway. This is how America's most respectable city hid its most corrupt mob neighborhood — and how it took a turncoat insider and one sweeping verdict to wipe the family off the map for good.
Welcome to the dark history of America — a documentary channel about the empires, towns, and institutions this country built, and what they buried along the way. Each episode is a full history documentary told through real archival footage and photographs: the rise and fall of famous places, forgotten history that never made the textbooks, and vintage America the way it actually looked. This is american history explained through its darkest stories — every dark history documentary is researched from real records and period sources.
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The Rise and Fall of New York's Most Corrupt Mob Neighborhood: Rochester
James Sullivan
33,180 views
In October 1970, dynamite tore through a church and a synagogue in Rochester, New York — and the police spent months hunting radicals who never existed. The bombs were a Mafia diversion, and they were only the first move in a story where the detectives ended up as crooked as the gangsters they were chasing, forging the evidence that convicted an entire crime family. When that lie collapsed and the bosses walked free, the war over who owned Rochester turned Kodak's smug company town into a battlefield of car bombs, snipers, and a boss machine-gunned in a motel room off the Thruway. This is how America's most respectable city hid its most corrupt mob neighborhood — and how it took a turncoat insider and one sweeping verdict to wipe the family off the map for good.
Welcome to the dark history of America — a documentary channel about the empires, towns, and institutions this country built, and what they buried along the way. Each episode is a full history documentary told through real archival footage and photographs: the rise and fall of famous places, forgotten history that never made the textbooks, and vintage America the way it actually looked. This is american history explained through its darkest stories — every dark history documentary is researched from real records and period sources.
New episodes weekly.
#history #documentary #mafia #truecrime #rochester