November 2024 issue contents
Joseph Valachi composed his last will and testament in the spring of 1967, while he was in the Federal Correctional Institution at Milan, Michigan. In contrast with the extraordinarily lengthy autobiography he wrote in 1964-1965, the will was just a page and a half. It was penned about a year after Valachi – desperately unhappy over his transfer to Milan and the government’s withdrawal of permission to publish his book – tried to take his own life. The bruises he suffered in the attemped hanging had healed, and author Peter Maas was moving ahead with plans to publish Valachi’s story, but the famous informant still had death on his mind...
Last will and testament
of Joseph Valachi
Joseph Valachi composed his last will and testament in the spring of 1967, while he was in the Federal Correctional Institution at Milan, Michigan. In contrast with the extraordinarily lengthy autobiography he wrote in 1964-1965, the will was just a page and a half. It was penned about a year after Valachi – desperately unhappy over his transfer to Milan and the government’s withdrawal of permission to publish his book – tried to take his own life. The bruises he suffered in the attemped hanging had healed, and author Peter Maas was moving ahead with plans to publish Valachi’s story, but the famous informant still had death on his mind...
3 magazine pages / 5 book pages.
Document, endnotes.
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