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.
History is all around us, and it is amazing to me how it can become lost in plain sight. For example, language is chocked full of forgotten history.