and another is a guy named beans rosenthal. rosenthal has a gambling house at 104 west 45th street and gets tired of being shaken down by a police lieutenant. also by sullivan, and called lieutenant charles becker. becker is one mean, crooked cop, and rosenthal says, do you know who i am? i'm a friend. i'm a protege of big tim. and you're picking on and i'm not going to take it. whereupon his his gambling house is wrecked by the police. this happens. one more time. and rosen thought all this is bad timing for tammany to him because manhattan at that point is one of those rare intervals when manhattan has a republican d.a. so he's going to go to the d.a. and he's going to go to the press. trouble in river city and becker and big tim. big tim sullivan by the ironically, is the father of the first gun control law in the united states. the sullivan act. okay and also in the murder of bnz rosenthal which is the first drive by shooting in united states history. they just sort of go by after after some killers, another gambler, name b

larry rosenthal would have turned 62 today. he's been my friend for almost 40 years, my closest political adviser, my confidant. we lost larry over the summer. i wouldn't have been a member of congress without him. i wouldn't have been as successful as a member of congress without him. he was by my side every step of the way. he really was family. to my family, especially my wife jennifer, i say thank you. she's stood by me and given up the most through my public service here. and i know, at least i think, she'll be glad i'll be home full time. she has put up with a lot, so thank you, jennifer. she's done so having to deal with her own health struggles. she's my hero. i'm grateful to my kids, my son ryan, my daughter-in-law ginger and their children, the two most perfect grandchildren ever to occupy the earth, katelyn and collin. to my son kenneth who lives in new york, my daughter katie, they have put up with my schedule. they've given me the reason and the inspiration to continue to fight on. they've supported and defended me

rosenthal. basically glen glad stones and nobu as you saw along there 150 homes taken out.ou are going to see it and go -- it doesn't look the same. it's gone. >> brian: duke's is there, still. duke's was -- when i was out there was a sea lion. so you said they opened up their door you said, steve, they opened up their doors yesterday? >> steve: a staging area. >> brian: let people get in. the question is, william, things are calm and it doesn't seem the fire is raging can people go back and see what's left? >> you know, no. and because i take pch every day it's going to be closed for probably a long time because we had the franklin fire last month and they kept it closed for almost no reason. and then when you see the amount of debris and rubble there. they close that thing for a week can you just imagine what it's like that's a major artery. no, unless you have a press pass, you can't get past the checkpoints. and so, there is going to be a lot of frustration and, you know, people have asked me to go through to eyeball to see if their home is still there because they don'

so now for tonight's event, i would like to introduce our guest speaker, nathan perl-rosenthal is a historianof the 18th and 19th century atlantic world. he focuses on the political and cultural history of europe and the americas in the age of revolution, with particular attention to the transnational influences that shaped modern national politics. he received his ph.d. in history, columbia university, in 2011 with a dissertation done on. i'm not going to be able to pronounce that word correctly. we're going to say revolutionary organizing with a ph.d. on revolutionary organizing excellence. he is the author of citizen sailors becoming an american in the age of revolution and his essays and reviews have appeared in all of the big journals william and mary quarterly, the american historical review and the journal of, the early republic. i should also say that i was a baby graduate student and i was in the los angeles for a year with my husband's work, and i was kind of hanging around the huntington doing research and looking for a place to fit in. nathan was nice to me and said hello to me an

movie "casino," robert de niro's character, closely based on the real-life mobster frank "lefty" rosenthalis 1983 el dorado, turns on the ignition, and is engulfed in a fireball. >> a bombing sort of has mafia written all over it. who would want to detonate a bomb at a posh country club in broad daylight with, you know, over 100 witnesses watching? >> arizona has a past with the mob. in the mid-'70s, newspaper reporter don bolles was investigating organized crime, getting national attention, covered by walter cronkite. >> don bolles is a 47-year-old investigative reporter for "the arizona republic." he has been working on a series about the mafia. >> and when bolles returned to his car, a remote-control bomb exploded under the driver's seat. >> bolles uttered the word "mafia" as he lay dying, but police were never able pin his death on organized crime. >> strictly speaking, what killed gary triano was not a car bomb. it was a pipe bomb on the passenger seat detonated by remote control. and as detective james gamber began looking into gary's murder, the mob was top of mind. >> everybody tho