Joseph P. Macheca: His Life and Times - Birth of the American Mafia

A look at the New Orleans pioneer of commerce many consider America's first Mafia godfather, the 1890 David Hennessy assassination and the 1891 Orleans Parish Prison lynchings. Information was drawn from "Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia," by Thomas Hunt and Martha Macheca Sheldon, published in 2007. See also: https://jpmacheca.blogspot.com/