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Brothers Against Brothers: The Civella Spero War

Tue, Aug 15 2023
7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Age Group
For adults

 

Presenter
Gary Jenkins
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Join retired Kansas City Detective Gary Jenkins for the story of Kansas City’s Civella Spero mob war in the 1970s. Part of a surveillance team created in 1977 to prevent mob murders, Jenkins will share his account of the war as well as other first-person accounts of the conflict.

 

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