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Article: VOA NEWS: 'AMERICAN GANGSTER' TELLS TRUE STORY OF HARLEM DRUG DEALER
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 12, 2007
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Alan Silverman
Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe co-star in a crime drama directed by Ridley Scott and based on the true story of the man who ran the illegal drug trade in New York's Harlem 40 years ago. Alan Silverman has a look at American Gangster.
Frank Lucas was 'somebody' in the shady underworld of New York in the 1960's. A protege of 'Bumpy' Johnson, the local crime boss who ran the streets of Harlem for decades, Lucas took over when his mentor died.
Lucas smuggled heroin in the coffins of dead American soldiers returning to the United States from Vietnam. Uneducated - except for what he learned on the streets - ...