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>> what do we know about whiteys health? you wrote he participated in lsd experiments to shorten a prison stay one time. >> i think its legitimate. he has had post-lsd trauma in terms of nightmares, things like that. night terrors and shelly murphy, my co-author and colleague, one of the things we found out while researching the book, talking to kevin weeks, like tony soprano, whitey went to see a psychiatrist because his nightmares were so bad. and the harvard medical school train trained psych...

And cultivating his image. reporter shelly murphy says he wanted to be seen as an honorable criminal. the robin hood of south boston. he would cruise the neighborhood offering rides to elderly. when people would sit around saying hes out there, hes a robber, criminal. the women would say that jimmy, bulger, hes a nice boy. >> reporter: a nice boy with a nose for trouble. in the 1950s he was sent to federal prison for bank robbery and then transferred to alcatraz. after his release in 1965 bulger...

Run, finally, at 81 james whitey bulger was in custody. >> we have captured one of the fbis ten most wanted fugitives, a man notorious in boston and around the world. >> reporter: inside the couples apartment agents found more than $800,000 in cash, stuffed into the walls. in 2012, kathryn grieg was sentenced to eight years in prison for helping whitey. >> she was and is in love with mr. bulger, and she does not regret what she did in living her life with him. >> reporter: now, its whitey bulger...

Recruited him as an informant. their deadly alliance would ultimately tarnish generations of federal agents. >> 1976 connelly tipped him off about a rival and bulger killed him, so connelly had to realize right away how serious and deadly this arrangement was. >> bulger was supposed to be ratting out the italian mafia and used his fbi contacts to gain information that he allegedly used to kill 19 mob rivals, possible informants and others. >> he would personally get involved in cutting off the f...

So ruthless some relatives of the 19 people he is accused of killing decades ago still harbor a vivid hatred as the man known to everyone as whitey. >> i describe him as a scumbag. he is the lowest of the low. he is a mass murder like i said before. he has destroyed hundreds of families. he doesnt give a crap about anybody, no one but himself. >> for more than two decades from the 70s to the early 90s nothing happened in bostons criminal under world but bulger getting a piece of it. he is accuse...

Protecting this informant. others have admitted to it. and, you know, theyre testifying against him for immunity. so this is a dark time in fbis history and we have the story of whitey bulger, a myth logical figure. whats key to keep in mind there are 19 murders. so aside from this mythological figure hes an alleged murderer and think prosecutors tried to stress that today. >> real quick, what was his demean nor in court today? >> like he has been, hes kind of sat back. this is one of the situat...

Gun that was going to change everything. it was the michelle obama hates white people tape. remember that? shocking evidence of first lady michelle obama or would be first lady michelle obama, she wont be now, its her on tape saying the word whitey, and she wasnt talking about whitey bulger. it was the release of the hate whitey tape that was imminent, going to totally change the election. since nobody has ever seen the infamous michelle obama hate whitey tape on the account of the fact it does ...

Being murdered by his crew. so, here in boston, if you went to the fbi with information about whitey, you had a problem. >> when we talk about the trial, what are the predictions about how long it will be? >> well, theyre saying it will last through the summer, probably into mid september. theyre planning on calling more than 600 people. prospective jury ors to try to get it down to 12 jurors and six alternates. the government says it will call about 80 witnesses. he plans to take the stand hims...

Now. good to have you and certainly, this is a gripping tale for boston and the country in general. a lot of people outside of boston may have heard the name, but arent familiar with the details of his life, but when you start following the story, it reads like something out of the godfather. what was it that intrigued you most about the story? >> here in boston, were calling this the trial of the century. hes calling his upcoming trial the big show. and a chance to you know, clear his name. but...

Whats the difference? >> that was from the trailer. next weeks trial promises to trump anything hollywood could imagine. joining me now is kevin collin coauthor of the new book about bulger called simply "white biel jere americas most wanted gangster and the man hunt that brought his to justice." first of all explain it to people who dont know it i always say south bonnett where my eternal side is from and where i lived in the 80s and 90s, literally a peninsula, figuratively an island. it is a p...