LibGuides: HON 440.1001 (Green) Organized Crime in Las Vegas: Organized Crime

Organized Crime

FBI Files on organized crime figures
Online records from FBI FOIA vault
Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas (podcast)
Podcast hosted by journalist Jeff German, produced in collaboration with the Mob Museum and the Las Vegas Review Journal

Congressional Publications (ProQuest Congressional)
Good for: Researching U.S. legislative information.
Contains: Congressional publications, bills, laws, regulations, committee information, and more.
Dates covered: 1789-present.

Kefauver Committee and Hearings - search "Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce"

Rackets or McClellan committee - search "Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management field"

Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management field
McClellan committee reports
Bibliography of reports related to organized crime, 79th-93rd congresses
List of reports and hearings on organized crime, 1945-1975. Use this to identify titles that you can search for in the Congressional Publications database.

FBI Surveillance of Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante, Jr.
This collection comprises materials on Santo Trafficante, Jr., Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano, including FBI surveillance and informant reports and correspondence from a variety of offices including, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, New York City, New Orleans, Atlanta, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago; Justice Department memoranda, correspondence, and analyses; News clippings and articles; Domestic Intelligence Section reports; Transcriptions of wiretaps, typewriter tapes, and coded messages; Memoranda of conversations.

FBI File: Howard Hughes
FBI File: Howard Hughes - This archive contains FBI records on the enigmatic billionaire Howard Hughes (1905-1976). It documents Hughes’s activities in various enterprises including aircraft manufacture and aviation; the motion picture business; Las Vegas real estate; and the Nevada gaming industry. Hughes’s relationship with film stars, reports on his sex life, details on his disappearance in 1970, and Hughes’s contested will are also covered. Of particular interest are letters written by Hughes in his own handwriting. Documents include: “Congress Probes Ownership of Airlines Which Won Routes” (July 1945); “Background into an unnamed racketeer who was employed by Howard Hughes” (June 1946); “Report of the allegation that Howard Hughes had invited Bugsy Siegel as a guest for the inaugural flight of the ‘Constellation’ from Los Angeles to New York” (c. 1947); “Investigation in a forged handwritten will” (1981); among other fascinating records.