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The FBI has maintained files on numerous people, including celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, John Denver, John Lennon, Jane Fonda, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, the band MC5, Lou Costello, Sonny Bono, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, and Mickey Mantle. The reason for the existence of the files varied.
The Frank Sinatra Student Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was dedicated in his name in 1978. [317] From his youth, Sinatra displayed sympathy for black Americans and worked both publicly and privately all his life to help the struggle for equal rights. He blamed racial prejudice on the parents of children. [565]
The Old Canteen was an Italian restaurant in Federal Hill, Providence, Rhode Island, opened by Joe Marzilli in 1956.They were Rhode Island’s oldest family owned restaurant and noted for their famous guests, particularly Mayor Buddy Cianci (when he died in 2016, they left his regular table empty in his honor) who has brought Frank Sinatra with him to dine.
The 3,000-page FBI dossier on Eleanor Roosevelt reveals Hoover's close monitoring of her activities and writings, and contains retaliatory charges against her for suspected Communist activities. [33] [34] Frank Sinatra – His 1,300 page FBI dossier, dating from 1943, contains allegations about Sinatra's possible ties to the American Communist ...
Frank Sinatra met Nancy Barbato (1917–2018) ... The FBI's secret dossier on Sinatra was released in 1998 in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. [80]
Suddenly (1954). A train carrying the president of the United States is scheduled to make a stop in the small town of Suddenly, California. Claiming to be part of the FBI detail checking up on security before the president's arrival, three men arrive at the home of the Benson family: Ellen, an over-protective war widow, her young son “Pidge”, and her father-in-law, “Pop” Benson.
Fratianno (second from the right) and other mobsters with Frank Sinatra at the Westchester Premier Theater on April 11, 1976. Along with members and associates of the Gambino, Colombo and Genovese crime families of New York, Fratianno was involved in the skimming of revenue from the Westchester Premier Theater in Tarrytown, New York.
Dean then delivered the request directly to Nixon. It was rumored that Vice President Spiro Agnew, a personal friend of Frank Sinatra, persuaded Nixon to approve the request. [5] Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox later investigated the DeCarlo pardon, but found no evidence of corruption. In December 1972, DeCarlo was released from prison.