Back when the television news organizations sought to INFORM the public, not spread propaganda.

This is better than a movie…straight, no chaser!

This is fantastic, I've seen a handful of clips from these hearings over the years, but I've never come across an extended video close to this. Thank you so much for the upload! This is a relic of modern American history.

Finally, I have waited years to see all this and not just the same old short clips. Thanks

A member of an organized crime family explaining criminal details to members of organized criminal political parties. 🤣 They were taking notes!!

The quality is phenomenal, thx so much for posting!!

First hand knowledge from someone who was there at the beginning, waiting for pt 2

Simply fascinating!!! Just love the way Valachi says "Huh?" when something is unclear at times. Loooooove it! Sooooo original!

I’ve been looking for this footage for years, can’t beloved you found it. Thanks!

This channel and oc shorts are the best ,most informative and the upmost quality by a country mile.. much love from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤍

No one makes the connection, but Bobby Kennedy was the main mover to get Valachi to testify. His brother was murdered less than 2 months after this testimony.

This is exactly what I was looking for; uninterrupted video hearings from the past, especially about crime. Thank so much for posting this, from my understanding it's difficult to find their outside of official archives. Much appreciated!! If you have more, on any range of topics, I know I'd love to see them!

Incredible footage, fantastic!

Thanks for all your work this is a fantastic video The archives

Awesome. Just incredible history unfolding here

The good old days when you could leave iron pipes laying around in a prison yard.

Hope you have the rest of it. Great stuff!

So glad this upload is back on this channel!

J Edgar Hoover denied the Mafia existed ,So when Joe testified Hoover had to come up with some story to set the record straight

It’s hilarious the way he keeps correcting their pronunciation of Masseria to MASSeRI😂

Fantastic thank you great footage 💪🏽

Pure gold. Real American history. So overlooked by the youth because it was before our time. But what a glimpse we get to have. Best channel on KZfaq.

Brilliant upload thanks.

Thank you for posting My introduction to my lifelong interest in cosa nostra began after reading the book as a child

yoo i appperciate this! I've been searching everywhere for the full hearing salute mobfax

His voice, slang and linguistics are very similar to Jackie Gleason's (Ralph Kramden). The same time frame . Very interesting

Amazing thanks

Awesome upload! MOBFAX as always awesome job! 👍

Thank you

Whoa! I’ve been wanting to see this for so long

Gallos...."Are them the guys that make the wine?"

THESE ARE AMAZING!!

Brilliant footage....please put up the other parts. This is amazing stuff and MOBFAX is the best at giving such historical impossible to find footage. Kudos.

Excellent post !!!

Love this pure mafia history footage. Back in the days were straight to the point & clear clarity questions & answers not like modern day court crap ! La Cosa Nostra

brilliant video thanks

Suspicious kiss is killing me- the apple was touched. Lol 😂

I'm sorry but Joe Valachi was a charismatic man. Even his FBI handler said after his death "he was a great guy". There are no button men left like this. He's a genuine historical figure.

Have watched it several times. Very interesting.

he wasn't trying to get revenge he was trying to survive he knew if he wasn't in protective custody he wasn't going to survive

This a treat to say the least. Didn't know it existed

Absolutely riveting...

You can see Valachi is a lot more credible than I had believed before seeing this. Guy was definitely telling the truth.

This was amazing. I’ve been wanting see this since I read the Valachi Papers 35 years ago. I hope you can find the rest of his testimony.

I'd LOVE to see and hear some of our government employees testify to what THEY have done!

This is fantastic. I've wanted more of the Valachi hearings for years. Next up I want to see more of the Frank Costello hearings. Pretty please Mobfax, make it happen.

This is amazing footage

Attorney General Robert Francis Kennedy was the prime mover in having these hearings televised. These televised hearings brought "La Cosa Nostra" to the attention of the American people.

Even to this day his testimony is gripping and still relevant. Valachi though not well spoken could take over a room with his tales.

This was in Oct of 1963 before Kennedy was assassinated in Nov of 1963. Now it makes sense.

Cab Sav and MOBFAX. Excellent video. Salud.

Has anyone ever seen 'The Valachi Papers' movie from 1972 starring Charles Bronson?

amazing to watch

Quite interesting about Valachi...he did inform but no one went to jail directly from his testimony. Great footage here Mobfax this is awesome.

I love this! Fantastic news

I must say that the Crime Commission has ask Joe Valachi some very important questions of this "Thing Of Ours" to be so new to everyone from what we know today.... very intriguing this Joe Valachi to be the First to ever bring "This Thing" Of Ours to life... thank you so much *MOBFAX* for such a classic as this... Cosa Nostra inter workings from it's Beginnings to it's Endings...thank you so much MOBFAX 😉😎✨🎇

Amazing

Thank you for this video What a piece of history of the american mafia keep up the great work cheers 😎👍

Valachi had a really clean haircut in this, even by today’s standards. I might hit the barber tomorrow for a taper fade w/ short crew cut.

The Family had a lot of buffers!

ANOTHER GOOD ONE MOE..

In 1963, he was already an OG. Can you imagine that

Awesome post. One of the best mobfax has uploaded. Great ty

Listening to him - Valachi - describe the methods of his gang's operations in the robberies of jewelry stores , fur stores , and the like , reminds me of the way gangs of youths stage robberies of shops and boutiques today , in 2023 . Valachi and the young criminals that he ran with were pulling these very similar sounding type crimes in the years 1922 , and 1923 . About 100 years ago .

Good find. Valachi did inform if you read the book. Tries to minimise it, though.

Wow. How did you get this. I’ve been wanting to see this for years!! Thank you.

I love these. Back in that time they say certain words that I find hilarious. Like how he says “first”. He says “foist” lol. Senator Curtis looks like a mobster as well. Sitting back smoking a cigar like that during a court hearing.

Yes. It was a great movie!

love how you watermark your stuff, don't let the fakers get you! good work.

This is a stellar piece of American history How this Valachi is not the subject of modern movies is hard to believe what an interesting character he was He goes back tp every major mob figure including Capone Lucky Vito Marrazzanp and even Lansky The stories this guy could have told would have been priceless to Hollywood

And to think before this people believed the Mafia was just an urban legend. I always point to this whenever I get heat for my "conspiracy theories".

It seems like these senators ,or whatever they were, wasnt even paying attention to the answers he's giving to their questions.

The Kiss of Death. Vito Genovese gave one to Joe Valacchi, and Joe gave one back to Vito. Then all night long in the darkened cell block, across from each other in their bunks, they kept an eye on one another.

The way Valachi soooo casually says he killed for the organization without any emotion is bone chilling. Why the senator announces to the world that three painters saw a Mafia murder thus putting the witnesses lives in danger I will never know. He is chastising the Policeman Salerno while giving this information to everyone on live television.....jeeeeez.

This is great

great stuff

All peoples in this video already in their grave now. How fast times gone. 😟😟😟

His sister,Joan, was one of my neighbors for twenty five years. I once broached the issue with her. Her change to someone with huge, dilated pupils confirmed all my questions. I told her I was out of line and named the high ranking Bufolino associates who lived where I grew up. I also said " I have been instructed to not talk about goes on in our house, OR OUR NEIGHBORS HOUSES..

When making the movie Valachi papers with Charles Bronson filmmakers got a call warning them to stop filming and they move the whole production to Italy

back when they had lead pipes just lying around the prison yard

Bro fuck yeah! You always got the good shit!

I would love to hear the thoughts of the lady secretary in the room. She heard every grumble and whisper, probably before, during and after.

Just Beautiful

Back when Senate hearings were taken seriously. Can you imagine Kamala Harris walking in in the middle of this?

Love all the nicknames they had for each other lol

When your fitted for cement shoes. It's hard to get out of them.

Valachi is a talker for real, and the senator cuts him off alot.

Love this stuff Reality exposure in the voice of players

Cool to hear what these original cosa Nostra members sounded like.

They would have been killing their own family members if what you suggested was implemented. Valachi's wife was first cousin to Tommy Lucchese I believe. Her father was Gaetano Reina and was Maranzano's underboss. Many inducted members have familial relations amongst their own crime family and others. I'll also add that Joseph Valachi is probably one of the most misunderstood figures in Cosa Nostra history. He was screwed royally by the former Luciano/Genovese family administration and boss (under Vito's reign). Valachi represents the first publicly acknowledged false wire on a stand-up guy. If you have NOT read Joseph Valachi's original manuscript, "The Real Thing" (almost 1400pages?) Then you should read it. This man was front and center in the life during black hand era, Masseria and Maranzano Castellamarese War and finally the Creation of American Cosa Nostra under Lucky Luciano, inducted original member. HE KNEW THE LIFE BETTER THAN MANY IF NOT MOST. HIS INSIGHT IS TOTALLY UNDERRATED.

FINALLY!!!!!

WOW. Just saw Detective Ralph Salerno as a young man. He saw so and lived so much of the NYC 🗽 underworld. Especially LCN. May he RIP 🙏🏾.

I'd be curious if he went into more detail about what trouble Luciano and Genovese helped Meyer Lansky with after the murder of Maranzano. Anyone know what he's referring to?

The Senator from Boston has an accent mivj closer to one you'd hear today.

That senator sure loves the sound of his own voice.

This was practically used in the movie Godfather Part II.

Those guys in the back that got up and dipped during the questions regarding the 3 painters were like "fuck, lets go contact the company like the senator just suggested" . or thats at least why I laughed when I saw the movement. ;)

It's annoying how both of them keep not fully understanding what the questions being asked are and not fully understanding the answers. I keep wanting to jump in and clarify.

American history is full of interesting and amazing stories, in books, old videos, movies, it never ends the mafia world “cosa nostra” it’s one of the most popular.

Godfather of Harlem brought me here. This is very accurate. Would love to see a Scorsese adaptation of this!