LEGS DIAMOND - The Most Famous Mobster in New York
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Keep it short n brief. You just authored the definitive biography on Jack Legs Diamond. Not only the man. But also condition place and times. This is straight-up award winning material and must be recognized as such. Please 🙏 Please 🙏 Please, Keep cooking 🍳 that Good Sh!t and serving them hot plates 🍽 are. Enjoy your summer.
This is the first video I've reviewed that was really informative of the times of the infamous bootleggers with more of the depiction of the era that I've ever seen or read about in any form. I absolutely loved every minute of this bio and hope more of this content is forthcoming in the future! Hat's off to the producers of history I've long awaited for! Thank you history buff's 😊
@@andreedwards8281 plenty more to come! I’m a one man band in terms of research, voiceover & production so I really try to have an emphasis on the details and depiction of the era - I’m glad you enjoyed that and thank you for your comment!
@Notmyfarm thank you! It’s actually myself doing the commentary not AI so I’m sure you recognised my Manc tones! Haha
@TheLastSupper_yt Hello, nice video. My name is Patrick Downey and I am the author of Legs Diamond: Gangster. I'm glad you found the information in my book so useful. However, if you are going to use direct quotes please give credit where credit is due. It doesn't take away from your work and is the right and legal thing to do. Thank you.
@VintageCrimeWave Hi Patrick, I did email asking if it was ok to credit you. I have changed the description of the video now so it includes yourself & the link to buy the book. Thanks for understanding and your kind words.
@@TheLastSupper_yt Thank you. I also tried to contact you, but your website link isn't working.
A well done video as always. Loaded with tons of information and media from the time.
@@SuperSchott thank you I really appreciate it
A little related (sort of) fact.
An L.A. heavy Rock n Roll act of the late 70s (and I believe still active today) went by the name of "Legs Diamond", borrowed from our subject.
Their only "hit" was a song, "Woman" which I suspect might be an ode to Mr Diamonds feisty first wife.
Or not.
But it seems to fit.
Great video.
Thank you!
Woman
Those old footages of the carpenters putting that door together made my day.
real quality craftsmanship back in those days
Brilliant in every way. Unbelievably well researched and well written. I've been a writer, editor and copy editor. You had me from the first paragraph! Thank-you so much.😊 I don't have the time at the moment to write more, however, suffice it to say...well done 👍. I look forward to watching and hearing more.❤
Headphones in and ready to go. Love the content
Thank you! Let me know when you think when you’ve watched it
He took to military life like a cat to water 😂😂😂
Wow. This one kills that one. That one kills the other one. And that other one kills the other one. Bugsy Siegel said "We only kill each other." Which I suppose he would know, considering his own death. But not without collateral damage -- and killing eye witnesses.
Wow that's amazing. My grandfather was from Albany, so he had to have grown up during the time that all that was happening.
Amazing! Did he ever mention anything?
@@TheLastSupper_yt It wouldn't hahe was an old school Gentleman. Even after he came back from World War 2, he never told any stories like a lot of people do.
@hammer9151 true my grandad was the same but maybe they had nothing to tell as many others did 😅
He's my blood great uncle
@TheLastSupper_yt I grew up in the area and have been in Albany thousands of times . The whole area is a spread out suburb now . The downtown area where he was murdered is a ghost town. In fact, a huge part of downtown was turned into a hideous office park for state workers. The house he was murdered in still exists though. That is not at all a desirable area.
Amazing documentary…something I’d def come back to watch again ….and I remember watching and olllld film about legs diamond so this was Avery good watch
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
He might not be well known today but the most one of most respected nyc gangster rapper of all time raekwon from wu tang is aka lex diamond and had a album named after him in 2003.
Growing up in philadelphia as a kid my first soccer coach was named jack diamond. Never thought about it before but I wonder if there is any relation
Very good soccer coach.
South Philly?
@@teedepefanio4974 Kensington and Juniata. These neighborhoods are right next to each other
@@teedepefanio4974
"WILLINK EN 💡HET LICHT💡GAAT AAN !"☝
Klaas van der Echtheit, Rotterdam 1973
Raekwon moniker was lex Diamons
The defininitive biography.
Well researched and well presented.
Excellent narration.
With that July birthday, he was born under the sign of Cancer the crab, and we all know the crab can run sideways, the better to dodge bullets.
Great video. I heard the name but really haven't heard the story until now. Nicely done
It makes perfect sense, he's from Kensington!😆😂😂😂😂
Kensington must have been rough back then. I'm sure it's much better now
Another interesting video, like the great video you did for Vannie Higgins, although there was a lot of identical content in the two videos, and your pronunciation for some words like cortege is a bit off (phonetic pronunciation would be 2 syllables: "kaw" + "TAYZH", not cor-te-je), and I doubt very much that the filming of Legs Diamond leaving hospital on new year's 1930 was made for television! This is 1930 after all, there were only 6,000 television sets in use in US homes, by 1946! It's likely that the film was made for news reels in cinemas..!
"L'OMERTÁ E SCACCIAPENSIERI !"☝🇮🇹
Geppetto de la Finestra di Finocchio
10:49 never seen that photo of Owney Madden…nice find.
Probably my favourite picture of him, you wouldn’t think it was taken in 1908/1909
The Upstate New York town you call "Powkeepsey" 55 minutes into your video is pronounced "Pukipsy" (Poughkeepsie)
Thanks for the correction!
Cairo is pronounced "Care-o." Albany is pronounced "Allbany."
@@TheLastSupper_ytyes, watch the first scene from The French Connection. Gene Hackman asking the guy about Poughkeepsie
Owney madden was apparently born in leeds to Irish parents. That made him English.
A Wigan accent apparently, which would have been extremely similar to mine (Manchester) so his story is definitely in the pipeline!
I doubt very much if Madden spoke with an English accent as he was only 4 or 5 years of age when he went to America. That and the fact that Madden ran with the ethnic Irish gangs of Hells Kitchen, who like all Irish Americans of that time would have been notoriously anti-English, and would never have accepted him if they regarded him as English.
@@davidpryle3935 Contrary to Wikipedia, Madden didn’t actually sail to New York until he was 11, in 1902. His mother saved enough money to afford tickets for his younger sister and brother to sail in 1896, who Madden seen off from Liverpool.
Madden ended up in an orphanage in Wigan until he was 11 when he spent the next 5 months in Liverpool waiting to sail to New York. A Merseyside-based author, Graham Nown, wrote a book, which I’ve read, on Madden’s life with the help of Madden’s widow.
She, and other sources, confirm that Madden spoke with a northern English accent and even had the Yorkshire Post specially delivered to him on a Sunday as when he received coverage, he liked to keep clippings.
In fact his usual greeting of ‘Ay up lad’ was mocked amongst his business associates in Hot Springs.
@@TheLastSupper_yt My information on Madden comes from the book Paddy Whacked, by author and organised crime journalist TJ English, who also authored The Westies: Inside Hells Kitchen’s Irish Mob.
He is the foremost expert on ethnic Irish organised crime gangs in the United States, and his books are very highly regarded, for their research and accuracy.
It was was quite common for very poor perspective Irish emigrants to the United States of that time, to go to England and work for a few years and save enough money to get to, and set themselves up in America.
Madden’s family lived in ethnic Irish districts of New York, and he ran with the ethnic Irish gangs who would have been even more anti-English than the average Irish Americans of that time. There’s no way they would have accepted him if they regarded him as English. If he had any hint of an English accent I’d say he lost it pretty quickly.
Just cause a dog is born in a barn it does not make it a horse 🤣
Owney Madden was 100% Irish. . .
Reminds me of the author of the book most-read by gangster rappers - Pimp: The Story Of My Life. I owned an old paperback copy of it before gangster rap existed. He became the top pimp - not to mention a narcotics dealer - in Chicago when it was still actually Second City - the second-most populated city in the USA. Before the war vs Japan in the Pacific caused a huge influx of people into, and a huge military and business build up on, the previously-sleepy US Pacific coast, including Los Angeles. "It's only $100 per day" (per prostitute) (to bribe the local police into protecting, rather than busting, him, and them, not to mention the huge amounts of cocaine and heroin they were using) he wrote. $100 was more than the average full-time worker in the average job in the US made per week at the time.
When i was a child back in the mid 20th century haha i remember seeing groups of large trees with the tunks painted white. I just thought it was decoration. Now i wonder what sort of people lived in those homes. Early security measures.
The fare to Canada was cheaper which is why my Irish g grandparents went there over NYC/BOSTON.
Doctors used to try to " cure" undesireable behavior in children butchering them with lobotomies; now, they can do it with drugs, making themselves and big pharma very wealthy .
The common denominator from the period for longer term criminal behavior was more likely the excessive deaths of family experienced in formative years .The sense of hopelessness and despair these senseless deaths instilled tended to inspire a particular pathology.When all the best people you know die young and horribly, what kind of justice or reason could exist in the world?
In those days, people got their information/ news from newsreels in movies, the radio, and of course newspapers. The celebrity culture existed mostly for entertainers in, movies and theater. Fame has Always been frowned upon for criminals, for obvious reasons..Some of them got caught up in the fame and attention too. I knew this Very old lady who grew up in the lower Eastside and said that she saw Legs Diamond get shot.
Yaya another long video!!! 👏👏
Said the person with a SAS( Short Attention Span).
Amazing story ...
Great show.. for not being Italian or Sicilian, Mr Diamond had quite a bit of juice... i agree with your view where Charlie "Lucky" and Jacky D were initially connected to each other by A.R.
At the feet of the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, sits Meyer Lansky, Charles Luciano, "Legs" Diamond, Benny Seigel, and quite a few others, Nucky Thompson..
Honestly, this is like the gangster version of Alexander and his 5 generals all starting out as students of Aristotle...
Arnold R. taught each of these guys about class and tact, to project self-control and a sobor demeanor at all times.. hs was a true businessman, who polarized the classiest gangsters in NY into a loose group of old pals... utilizing an arrangement, invented by A.R. himself...
When Mr Diamond worked his own bar for a moment here or there, I'll guarantee he felt like Mr Rothstein was smiling down upon him because he'd remembered the lesson and A.R. was right... it worked, every single time... ❤
Top shelf doco 10points .
If he was so famous, why isn't he brought up when people talk about famous gangster like Al Capone, Dutch Schultz, etc
In the 20’s he was famous.
It’s just he only lived to the end of 1931
Basically, on other RUclips channel s on Diamond, he has 600,000 views, 122.000 views. On this 33,000 in 4 days. Of course, AL Capone is AL Capone Bugsy Siegel , Hell even Jack's. Most hated nemesis Dutch Schultz , had I believe a best selling novel and movie 🎬 ( played by the esteemed Dustin Hoffman) based upon him. But Jack Diamond is definitely a New York legend who, like Owney Madden , Jimmy Burke, and Mad Dog Coll, are still talked about by Irish people in bars and neighborhoods as legends. I actually met a thugged out Black Irish dude who who held Jack Diamond as his role model.
@@altagraciaadames3483 If he was a real notorius New York Underworld gangster cockeroach legend as you say. Why do New Yorkers not build a subway urinal and name it after him so people know or can learn that what happens to criminal victimiser gangster theives & murderers is they dig them selves a hole for ever afterwards. IE they are heading straight for a life time in Hell or the crapper where the shit they did doing life sticks on them forever. They get ostrisized as they smell so foul.
Yeah you gotta be interested in the underworld to know who he is!!!!
No Televisions in the 1920's, they would watch these in News Reels in between movies at the theater.
Great true story!
Would like to know what movie some of the clips are from? Please help
@@liseofthenormanpeoples7161 hey, I used quite a few old movies/tv shows I like. Which clips would you like to know?
Right on
What's a gararge ? ?????
UK ish
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Hotseat Totsy Club.
can't help but thinking these horse drawn baggies, the streets would be full of horse shits!.. who's gonna clean them..
Usually have guys with shovel and bag to clean n you up people used it as fertislier.
Good !!!
More than likely killed by Oconnel ..
Yes, as he was effectively a Mob boss himself.
Miss Roberts is slow
Brilliant
Mobster? I thought he was a breakdancer??
Great information, but WAY too long.
Evil men are always glorified by the world. But when an otherwise decent man whose well known falls once, he is pilloried by the world. The movies and programs that follow glamorize the habitually wicked and destroy the good man that falls.
so famous I never heard of him. Where is Spike O'Donnell?
Well you aren't an underworld afficinado are you?
Spike Odonell from Chicago?
@@greghill1106 Capone took care of Spike