Former Chicago organized crime boss Sam Giancana shot to death 50 years ago this hour (June 19 1975)


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(Thursday, June 19, 1975, just before 11:00 p.m. CDT) — Former Chicago organized crime boss Sam Giancana, reported to have been a key participant in a Central Intelligence Agency plot to assassinate Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba in 1961, was shot to death tonight in the basement of his home in Oak Park, Illinois.


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Giancana was 67.