DRAMATIS PERSONAE (as provided by James Ellroy)
The three main protagonists of THE COLD SIX THOUSAND:
WAYNE TEDROW, JR. -- age 29. Las Vegas cop sent to Dallas coincidentally the weekend Jack Kennedy buys it -- 11/22/63 -- Vegas intelligence squad cop, locked into a deathly moral conflict with his old man, WAYNE TEDROW, SR. a wealthy ultra-rightwing fat cat.
WARD LITTELL -- age 50. A traumatized ex-Jesuit seminarian, former FBI agent turned mob lawyer. A man with the hubris to think that he can manipulate the demonic J. Edgar Hoover.
PETE BONDURANT -- Rogue enforcer, French-Canadian protestant emigre committed anti-communist, killer, goon, six of the seven most fearsome individuals on God's green earth.
The historical characters are as follows:
JOHN KENNEDY -- Pussyhound president of the United States. Stops a bullet in Dealy Plaza, 1963.
J. EDGAR HOOVER -- Known to many as Gay Edgar Hoover. The demonically voyeuristic and manipulative boss of the FBI.
HOWARD HUGHES -- Racist, germ-phobic, recluse, drug addict billionaire.
CARLOS MARCELLO -- Mob boss of New Orleans.
SAM GIANCANA -- Mob boss of Chicago.
JONNY ROSELLI -- Number Two in the Chicago Mob.
SANTO TRAFFICANTE -- Mister Big in the Tampa, Florida Mob.
MOE DALITZ -- Architect of Las Vegas's "Clean Town" policy and big a time Mob fixer.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. -- Arguably the greatest twentieth-century American. The head of the SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Council. Mr. Big Time in the Civil Rights circles.
ROBERT KENNEDY -- Attorney General of the United States. Key Crime Fighter of the Twentieth Century. Later, Junior Senator from New York.
BAYARD RUSTIN -- Homosexual civil rights leader.
SAL MINEO -- Homosexual faded movie star, pawn of the FBI in their plans to entrap Martin Luther King.
FRED OTASH -- Goon, private eye to the stars. The guy that you went to see in fifties and sixties LA, if you wanted to bug a hotel to get your girlfriend an abortion or get a picture of Rock Hudson with a dick in his mouth. You saw Freddy O.
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