Said that it was called true crime but we wanted it to be a social issue and explain a creature like whitey could only exist in a certain time and place and pecuer pucular to boston because the irish were in control of politics, Law Enforcement and business. The influence of the Italian Mafia the fbi could create a National Policy to go after the mafia and use whitey to say they were being used to help get the mafia. This is a story with great sweep. And there was a guy named John Mccormick who was the representative from boston. Dot. He did because if youre an fbi agent your prestige, status within the bureau is based on creating informants. And Whitey Bulger was seen as a very high level organizedcrime figure. There was an ulterior motive. He wanted to protect the Whitey Bulger family. He was very close. So a lot of and you know, i think you all probably know that Martin Scorsese did a film, the departed, which is the very, very loosely based on the whitey character. But the whole st
Audience members please turn off your cell phones now. Everybody take a second to make sure your cell phone is off. So we have two wonderful boston globe columnist here, kevin cole in in your penitentiary, and we asked him if he would like to attend but when the phone didnt ring we knew it was him. [laughter] shelley and i have covered, first of all, shelley grew up in dorchester very close to the south boston line. She went to south boston high. My entire maternal side is in south boston so we would have grown up knowing, learning about Whitey Bulger by osmosis. Everybody where we grew up where we were from knew he was a hoodlum, a and a very dangerous guy. Approximate the same time the different newspapers, we were paying attention to him and writing about him. And, obviously, what really made whitey just a remarkable story is while he was the most powerful gangster in boston his brother that was the most powerful politician in massachusetts. He was the long serving, longest serving
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