It is an awesome find. That Mary Ferrel site has some great stuff; its just the matter of trudging through all the files to find the gold. Most of the articles are no where near as interesting or as easy to read as this one.

Its a spin out to see how big mouthed some of the old timers were, around the time the feds started blackbugging, & before the wiretap became the standard assumption in racketeering cases. For example, the Sam the Plumber tapes, or Stafano Maggadino's tirades against Joe Banana's, and so many other cases.

In the early days, especially during the immigrant generations, one could understand how stirring oratory would have been respected & almost essential. But times have definitely changed.