Brothers Against Brothers: The Civella Spero War

Tue, Jun 27 2023

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Woodneath Community Room 1 and 2

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Subjects

History

Age Group

For adults

Presenter

Gary Jenkins

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Registration Required

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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