Jack 'Spot' interview

Flashscan Can Number: L3B116P4b Original ID: 33866 Alternate ID: FS140164008_0 Preview available at: https://cdn.dam.gettyimages.com/S60V9855/as/qb0lin-4dgt5s-707dmd/FS140164008_0.mp4 Jack 'Spot' interview. ENGLAND, London: Studios: CS JACK "SPOT" WEARING DARK GLASSES AND HAT: SOF: (Lead in Q: Why has there been a flare-up of gangsterism?) Because the foreign mob mean business. (Q: They're a foreign mob are they?) They are a foreign mob yes. (Q: Why do you say that?) No Englishman would shoot a man down in cold blood. (Q: What changes has there been the the kind of people who run this racket to the kind of people you remember?) Well years ago when I was in that business everything was illegal and the mobs used knives and coshes. (Q: How do the protection racketeers go about approaching people?) Well years ago they used to be rough and ready you know, but now they do it in a diplomatic way. (Q: How?) Well a man come and calls on the governor of the betting shop, dressed very nice in Saville Row clothes, has a nice chat with him, then puts it to him in a round-about way. If the governor refuses, he still shakes hands with the man, says "O.k. forget it, everything's alright". then something happens. (Q: Why don't people who are approached by a protection racketeer go to the police?) Well they're afraid, especially now getting shot down. (Q: What can they do, is there no alternative, they've got to give in?) No, they've got to pay. (Q: Supposing you, Jack Spot, supposing you were a man who owned a betting shop and were approached.....?) I was in different circumstances, if a man approached me, I'd tell him to call the next day and have a few of the lads waiting for him: NEG 16mm ITN(Downes) 1.20 mins 50 ft: 14.1.64 / 8.55pm: 33866/43B/3/64:

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ITN
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730063695
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January 14, 1964
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United Kingdom
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