Mob boss Albert Anastasia's murder was one part of a power struggle between crime families, and it drew national attention. But, more importantly, it would lead to a historic meeting between heads of the underworld syndicates that would change both the public’s and law enforcement’s, attitudes towards organized crime in the United States. The 1957 Apalachin meeting is history that deserves to be remembered.
In August of 1918, as the armies of Europe neared exhaustion, American troops of the 28th “Keystone” division were thrown into a nearly forgotten battle that fully represented the horrors of the War to End All Wars.
Of the vaunted ironclad warships of the US Civil War perhaps the mightiest and most terrifying was the confederate ram Tennessee. On August 5, 1864, she would be put to the test in the largest naval engagement of the war, an engagement that defined the divided loyalties of the War of the Rebellion.