History of the Kansas City Mafia
Retired FBI agent William Ouseley spoke with Kansas City Public Broadcasting editor Jonathan Bender for an illustrated discussion of the… read more
Retired FBI agent William Ouseley spoke with Kansas City Public Broadcasting editor Jonathan Bender for an illustrated discussion of the city’s gangland past, and a look at a newly discovered archive of police reports, mugshots, and other records from the Kansas City Star newspaper. The former FBI agent spent two decades investigating and prosecuting organized crime figures in Kansas City and is the author of Mobsters in Our Midst: The Kansas City Crime Family and Open City: True Story of the KC Crime Family 1900-1950. close
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