Family Legacy

On the morning of October 25, 1957, Albert Anastasia is murdered. The dramatic assassination of the head of Murder, Incorporated captures the imagination of the press. But for Jack Pagano, a 17-year-old high school football hero with a penchant for Shakespeare’s history plays, the episode has special relevance. Because a little over a week before, completely out of the blue, Anastasia came into his life to announce that Jack was his son. Shortly after the shooting, Jack is given a letter from his father that lays out the dark legacy he will inherit. Based on real events, and peopled with dozens of historical characters, Family Legacy is a fascinating and eye-opening journey that criss-crosses through the interconnected worlds of the mafia, law enforcement, and the business and political classes of the late '50s and early '60s, to build to a shattering and revelatory climax in Dallas, TX, on the morning of November 22, 1963.