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Did somebody say they wanted to hear about the attempted helicopter escape? I happened to be at the MCC that day.

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Sure, lets hear all about it!

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Robingo
You've been everywhere with everyone except Davy Crockett at the Alamo. If you have something to add please stop asking if OSO members want to hear it. Just say it.
Thanks
Ed

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Crockett was a stud that day...but Jim Bowie fought like a maniac.... :D

T2x

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The day the soldiers came it was a hot day in San Antonio.

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Lol!

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This would be a great interview. Get this: the other day my bride was digging through old boxes of Christmas stuff and she found my copy of Speed Kills. I just finished reading it a little while ago.

For the record:
In his early days Ben used to sell small little amounts of pot; he was almost always at the band-shell @ Hollywood beach. I knew a guy, who knew a guy who used to buy pot from Ben.

The same guy had later made friends with two pirate-types who had a mid-sized Hatteras that was heavily involved in the importing business. Ben's name was tossed around pretty freely in those days.

It was a history-filled time to be in South Florida:

Liberty City riots (Arthur Duffy)
Mariel boat lift
Bails of Pot falling though the ceilings of trailer homes in Pompano.

Right before everything changed from Pot to Cocaine

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Are you talking about Pirates World in Dania? I saw everybody there:Zepellin, the Byrds,the Dead,Allman Bro's, Pink Floyd, and many more. Ben was a drummer and I was a bass player, and we used to run into each other.

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Does anyone know who was Ben's uncle ?...i'm sure it's not secret but i'm sure many of yall don;t know

Mike

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My understanding is that Maxine knew a niece of Lansky. According to one writer, that's close enough to call Ben the "putitive heir". Makes for interesting reading, I suppose. Ben used to carry a $1000 bill he said was once owned by Al Capone. I saw the bill, but I couldn't tell you from where it really came.