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  2. Nineteen Italian-Americans were accused of the murder of David Hennessy, the police chief of New Orleans. After the acquittal of six and mistrial of three, ten of them were shot or hanged in one of the largest mass lynchings of Americans in U.S. history.

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  3. Eleven Italian Americans were lynched in New Orleans on March 14, 1891, by a mob of twenty thousand people, gathered together by the political, business, and labor elites a day after a jury...

  4. Mar 23, 2007 · Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. History. Christopher Walken stars in this 1999 TV docudrama about Italian immigrants in New Orleans in the 1890s. Nicholas Meyer directed.

  5. Feb 22, 2022 · The story opens with 16-year-old Evey Hammond clumsily soliciting herself as a prostitute, only to find that she'd solicited a cop (known as the "fingermen").

  6. Vendetta: Directed by Nicholas Meyer. With Christopher Walken, Luke Askew, Clancy Brown, Alessandro Colla. Based on a true tale of power, corruption and murder, Christopher Walken stars in the story of the largest lynching in American history...

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    • Drama, History
    • Nicholas Meyer
    • 1999-07-03
  7. Vendetta ★★ 1999 (R) Based on a true story. New Orleans politicians and businessman seek to wrest away control of the docks from the Italian family that controls it. An unleashed angry mob leads to the largest lynching in American history.

  8. Jan 1, 1977 · On a rainy New Orleans night many years ago, David Hennessy, a nationally-prominent police superintendent, was gunned down by unknown assailants, identified only as 'Dagoes.'. On the basis of this vague and dubious evidence, authorities rounded up nineteen Italian -Americans.

    • Richard Gambino