Paul Grondahl writes about legendary Capital Region gangster Legs Diamond with some anecdotes supplied by William Kennedy and attorney E. Stewart Jones:
The Collar City was Mob City in the Prohibition era, and no bootlegger was a bigger rock star of the underworld than Jack "Legs" Diamond.
He swaggered through throngs lined up on the sidewalks around the Rensselaer County Courthouse, where he was put on trial two weeks before Christmas in 1931 on charges of kidnapping and assault.
Diamond walked a few blocks across Second Street each morning to the courthouse from the office of his lawyer, Abbott Jones, and basked in the adulation of Trojans who shouted Diamond's name, cheered and reached out to clasp his hand.....
More in the Times Union: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/The-unfinished-business-of-Legs-Diamond-5053434.php
Picture: NYPD mugshot of Jack Diamond.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Remembering a "Rock Star" Gangster in the Times Union
Friday, July 19, 2013
William Kennedy Reads Outtakes from "Legs" Tonight
William Kennedy will present a reading of portions of his landmark Albany novel Legs tonight, featuring a variety of scenes that did not make it into the final draft.
The free reading is at 8:00 p.m., Friday, 7/19, in Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
Free and open to the public. For directions to Skidmore, call 518-580-5590.
Full series of free readings: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html
More about Legs, a novel about Albany crime boss "Legs" Diamond, http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/wjk/legs.html
More about Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and Writers Institute Executive Director William Kennedy: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/wjk/biography.html
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