The Man Who Survived a Bullet to the Brain

A bullet entered his skull at point-blank range, but Frank Costello's eyes stayed open.

Frank Costello ruled New York with a phone call, not a gun. He was 'The Prime Minister,' a man who owned judges, senators, and police captains. He believed intelligence was the ultimate weapon.

But his 'brother' Vito Genovese believed only blood mattered. Genovese spent a decade watching dictators in Italy, learning that power is taken, not bought. When he returned to New York, he found Costello on the throne he believed was his.

This is the untold story of the war between two titans that reshaped organized crime in America forever. It is a story of a one-inch mistake, a disastrous meeting in upstate New York, and the man who realized the only way to win was to disappear.

No textbook covers the true scale of the Apalachin disaster or the psychological warfare Costello used to survive the hitman's bullet.

Power isn't about who hits hardest; it's about who's still standing when the smoke clears.

⚠️ HISTORICAL DISCLAIMER: This documentary reconstructs events from historical records, court documents, oral histories, and investigative journalism. Some dialogue and scenes are dramatized based on documented accounts. Sources listed below.

📚 Sources & Further Reading:
→ The Five Families (Selwyn Raab)
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Families-...

→ The Prime Minister of the Underworld (George Wolf)
https://www.worldcat.org/title/prime-...

→ The Valachi Papers (Peter Maas)
https://www.amazon.com/Valachi-Papers...

→ FBI Vault: Frank Costello Records
https://vault.fbi.gov/frank-costello

→ New York Times Archives: The Apalachin Raid (1957)
https://www.nytimes.com/1957/11/15/ar...

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