Angelo Bruno

On a damp evening in South Philadelphia, March 21, 1980, the long and relatively peaceful reign of Angelo Bruno, the 69-year-old head of the Philadelphia crime family, came to a sudden and violent end. The Sicilian-American mob boss, known as 'The Gentle Don' for his preference for diplomacy over violence, was sitting in the passenger seat of a car outside his row home near 10th Street and Snyder Avenue. As he smoked a cigarette, a figure emerged from the shadows, pressed a shotgun to the back o ...

Angelo Bruno - The Mob Museum

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