Honoring the Dockworker Killed for Defying the Mob
Pete Panto, who helped inspire “On the Waterfront,” finally has a tombstone in a Long Island cemetery
Source: nytimes.com
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Pete Panto, who helped inspire “On the Waterfront,” finally has a tombstone in a Long Island cemetery
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A union leader on the Brooklyn docks disappeared 81 years ago, presumably murdered by the mob.