Title: The Law of the Gun
Photographer: George Silk
• • • • • • Execution in 1957 at the Park Sheraton Hotel • • • • • • • •
• • Vito Genovese cunningly used Albert Anastasia's brutal behavior against him in an effort to woo Anastasia's supporters away. Secretly over the next few years, Vito Genovese won the cooperation of Anastasia's underboss, Carlo Gambino.
• • On the morning of October 25, 1957, Albert Anastasia entered the barber shop of the Park Sheraton Hotel (now the Park Central Hotel, on 56th Street and 7th Avenue) in New York City. Albert Anastasia's bodyguard parked the car in an underground garage and then, most conveniently, decided to take a little stroll. As Anastasia relaxed in the barber chair, two men — — scarves covering their faces — — rushed in, shoved the barber out of the way, and fired at Anastasia. After the first volley of bullets, Anastasia allegedly lunged at his killers. However, the stunned Anastasia had actually attacked the gunmen's reflections in the wall mirror of the barber shop. The gunmen continued firing and Albert Anastasia finally fell to the floor, dead. The Anastasia murder remains officially unsolved. It was originally alleged that the contract was given to Joe Profaci, who passed it on to the three Gallo brothers (including Crazy Joe Gallo) from Brooklyn. However, recent evidence has pointed the finger at a three-man hit team selected by "Joe the Blonde" Biondo, who became Carlo Gambino's underboss after the murder. Biondo is alleged to have selected Stephen Armone, Arnold "Witty" Wittenberg, and Stephen "Stevie Coogin" Grammauta. Grammauta, a convicted drug dealer and heroin smuggler, is currently regarded as a capo (captain) in the Gambino crime family.
• • The double-dealing did not cease with Anastasia's death in 1957. Carlo Gambino secretly deserted Vito Genovese, passing along knowledge of Genovese's desires to "rub out" his rivals, Luciano and Costello. Thus, Meyer Lansky, Luciano, Costello and Gambino conspired to entrap Genovese with a narcotics conviction that would result in a sentence of life imprisonment. In that sense, Anastasia was avenged, but it was not with the abrupt finality that the brutal executioner would likely have preferred.
• • Anastasia was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, in Section 39, Lot 38325. After his assassination, barber chairs at the Park Sheraton Hotel were turned to face away from the mirror.
• • • GEORGE SILK • • •
• • George Silk [17 November 1916 — 23 October 2004], born in New Zealand, served as a photojournalist for Life for 30 years; he began working there in 1943.
• • George Silk's career as a war photographer began in 1939 — — when he was a combat cameraman for the Australian government, covering action in the Middle East, North Africa and Greece. Trapped with the famed Desert Rats at Tobruk in Libya, he was captured by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces but escaped 10 days later.
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• • This extraordinary true-crime image was reproduced on Kodak paper.
• • You will receive this one single reprint — — limited handling to keep the reprint in good condition.
• • • • You are responsible for reading the description — — before you buy. Thank you.
• • ORIGINAL: the original 1957 photo by George Silk was a GELATIN SILVER PRINT
• • IMAGE SIZE: 5 inches X 7 3/8 inches (approximately)
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Photographer: George Silk
• • • • • • Execution in 1957 at the Park Sheraton Hotel • • • • • • • •
• • Vito Genovese cunningly used Albert Anastasia's brutal behavior against him in an effort to woo Anastasia's supporters away. Secretly over the next few years, Vito Genovese won the cooperation of Anastasia's underboss, Carlo Gambino.
• • On the morning of October 25, 1957, Albert Anastasia entered the barber shop of the Park Sheraton Hotel (now the Park Central Hotel, on 56th Street and 7th Avenue) in New York City. Albert Anastasia's bodyguard parked the car in an underground garage and then, most conveniently, decided to take a little stroll. As Anastasia relaxed in the barber chair, two men — — scarves covering their faces — — rushed in, shoved the barber out of the way, and fired at Anastasia. After the first volley of bullets, Anastasia allegedly lunged at his killers. However, the stunned Anastasia had actually attacked the gunmen's reflections in the wall mirror of the barber shop. The gunmen continued firing and Albert Anastasia finally fell to the floor, dead. The Anastasia murder remains officially unsolved. It was originally alleged that the contract was given to Joe Profaci, who passed it on to the three Gallo brothers (including Crazy Joe Gallo) from Brooklyn. However, recent evidence has pointed the finger at a three-man hit team selected by "Joe the Blonde" Biondo, who became Carlo Gambino's underboss after the murder. Biondo is alleged to have selected Stephen Armone, Arnold "Witty" Wittenberg, and Stephen "Stevie Coogin" Grammauta. Grammauta, a convicted drug dealer and heroin smuggler, is currently regarded as a capo (captain) in the Gambino crime family.
• • The double-dealing did not cease with Anastasia's death in 1957. Carlo Gambino secretly deserted Vito Genovese, passing along knowledge of Genovese's desires to "rub out" his rivals, Luciano and Costello. Thus, Meyer Lansky, Luciano, Costello and Gambino conspired to entrap Genovese with a narcotics conviction that would result in a sentence of life imprisonment. In that sense, Anastasia was avenged, but it was not with the abrupt finality that the brutal executioner would likely have preferred.
• • Anastasia was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, in Section 39, Lot 38325. After his assassination, barber chairs at the Park Sheraton Hotel were turned to face away from the mirror.
• • • GEORGE SILK • • •
• • George Silk [17 November 1916 — 23 October 2004], born in New Zealand, served as a photojournalist for Life for 30 years; he began working there in 1943.
• • George Silk's career as a war photographer began in 1939 — — when he was a combat cameraman for the Australian government, covering action in the Middle East, North Africa and Greece. Trapped with the famed Desert Rats at Tobruk in Libya, he was captured by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces but escaped 10 days later.
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• • This extraordinary true-crime image was reproduced on Kodak paper.
• • You will receive this one single reprint — — limited handling to keep the reprint in good condition.
• • • • You are responsible for reading the description — — before you buy. Thank you.
• • ORIGINAL: the original 1957 photo by George Silk was a GELATIN SILVER PRINT
• • IMAGE SIZE: 5 inches X 7 3/8 inches (approximately)
• • MAT SIZE: UNLIKE OUR OTHER LISTINGS, THIS IMAGE IS NOT MATTED
• • DISCOUNTED SHIPPING: buy any two of our MATTED and/ or Unmatted IMAGES & get discounted (combined) shipping [offer valid for two items going to one address — — at the same time]
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