Are you talking about the montage of several different newspaper aricles portraying several different mob deaths? The scene just before Vito arrivs from the hospital? If so, then this scene is just to show you that the war is going on. The deaths portray a bunch of differnt killings that happened during the war.
*note-all of the pictures shown in the montage were actual photos of mob deaths*
"I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life--I don't apologize--to take care of my family, and I refused to be a fool, dancing on the string held by all those bigshots. I don't apologize--that's my life--but I thought that, that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the string. Senator Corleone; Governor Corleone."
-Don Vito Corleone to his son, Michael
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