Boss, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (Documentary, 1995)
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- Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 - December 20, 1976) was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Chicago from 1955 to his death in 1976. Daley was also the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee from 1953 to his death. Daley was Chicago's third consecutive mayor from the working-class, heavily Irish American South Side neighborhood of Bridgeport, where he lived his entire life. He was the patriarch of the Daley family, whose members include Richard M. Daley, another former mayor of Chicago; William M. Daley, a former United States Secretary of Commerce; John P. Daley, a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners; and Patrick Daley Thompson, an alderman of the Chicago City Council.
Richard J. Daley was mayor of Chicago while I was growing up in southern Wisconsin. We got Chicago radio and TV stations, so we heard a lot about him. He was a legend to me by the time I was 17. My favorite quote in this film comes early: "He had the power to do good and the power to do evil, and he did both." For me, that sums him up--a fascinating character.
A story that alleges to cover Daley's rise and fall leaves out Chicago's most able and most popular commentators: Mike Royko and Studs Turkel.
Great point. The film makers had their agenda.
Yep, you're right.
This doc came out in 1995. Royko died in 1997. He may have been at a point in his life in which he wanted to stay out of the public spotlight.
Studs!
@@PrazMasterNo,Royko was doing his column until a few weeks before he died. He probably would have done a column on the day he died,except that he died while on vacation. He had just flown back from Florida.
Good documentary, thank you for posting this.
Originally from Chicago..1957-1986. A Very Well Done Documentary.
Excellent presentation and extremely informative. Keep up with your excellent content
Can you imagine how great Chicago could me today if Daley was still in charge.
Either one!
Very nice documentary.. Thank you for posting..
I remember when Daley was mayor of Chicago that Election Day was referred to as “Resurrection Day” because of the number of people residing in cemeteries who managed to vote.
Thanks for posting this. One of the best documentaries I have seen. Daley was one of the major American political figures of the 20th century. Unfortunately he got caught in the crosshairs of wholesale change in the 1960s, for which his background left him ill-equipped to handle and ultimately led to his downfall as a national figure.
Daley was not 'caught in the crosshairs of change', he REFUSED to change. He did not like that Chicago was becoming a multi-racial city (a city, ironically, that was founded by a Black man), and he did not especially like not having Black politicians, who no longer took his political crumbs for local power, fight and challenge his lilly white governmental rule. He was indeed ill equipped for change, and like a dinosaur, he and his kind, are largely extinct.
@@THE_HMRC I was not defending Daley. By saying getting “caught in the crosshairs”, I meant that the times and the demands of those who had been held down so long finally caught up to Daley, and he DID refuse to change. As a result, he became irrelevant by the 1970s.
@@vidnut67 ...i agree totally with you.
He was def better than beetle juice doe
I enjoy those who try to teach somewhat common viewpoints that are well established, though still opinion, as if they are some form of knowledge base.
I was born at the end of AUGUST, during the DNC & THE RIOTS IN 1968.A LOT OF THINGS HAVE CHANGED..BUT, NEVER THE CHAOS OR CORRUPTION THIS CITY OR STATE HAS BEEN DEALING WITH SINCE ITS EARLY BEGINNINGS. AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL
Why in all caps?
@@dr.barrycohn5461Caps lock was corrupted
41:10 Crawford was changed to Pulaski in the 1930s, well before Hizzoner took office, my frents.
I was born in Chicago on the north side in1957. Mayor Daley was the only mayor I ever knew. I went into the navy in 1976 three months before he passed. He was a great man. A tough man. An honest man, and a God fearing man. He loved his city and we loved him. I never went back.
A simply phenomenal documentary, whether you liked The Old Man or not!
I loved this documentary. Born in Chicago but growing up in Oakland, CA, I asked my mom one day what she thought of Mayor Daley...she expressed her love for him because of what he had done for Black people. I took her at her word.
It should be noted Boss Tweed was not Irish. He was 3rd generation Scottish & nominally Quaker
Richard J. Daley was mayor when I was born in 1974.
Who are you, who cares, thanks for chiming in I guess
Interesting the focus on the 1968 riots in this documentary. Look at Detroit and other Midwest cities. Daley kept Chicago running,
Richard J. Daley's explanation of Wednesday night's brutality beginning at 1:37:21 is made particularly absurd by hearing "edelweiss" from The Sound of Music playing on the speakers at the convention hall.
The headline is misleadiing. It should read "The Last Boss", like the program's title. I thought it was based on the Mike Royko book "Boss".
Sometimes a correct title will attract ©️ complaints so this way it has a better chance of staying up longer.
No,the last boss was his son.
Great documentary. I am not naive enough to to think this perspective is complete. Daley ran the city like a mob boss & FBI Director. He absolutely had the pit bull demeanor to back up his love for the city and politics in general. I also know how entrenched organized crime was in the city during his tenure. Daley grew and matured the city for many but not so much for the growing minority. Could you imagine what a person with his power, love for the city, and commitment to all residents could do now?
He was a DINO. A very weak democrat.
I was born and raised in the near west suburbs of Chicago. Richard J. Daley became the mayor when I was one year old and died when I was 22. Although I've never been a democrat I have to admit that Daley was a great man. During his tenure the city had a AAA bond rating, we had the busiest airport in the world, and crime was low. Since his death in 1976 the city has gone downhill with a succession of inept mayors and more corruption.
As far as the blacks were concerned their groups bought up city block after city block. When that happened property values tanked overnight. Regarding the "Projects", NOBODY who lived in them had respect or a vested interest in keeping up the property because they lived there essentially rent free on the taxpayers' dime. Because they were such a dismal failure as of 2023 ALL of them have been demolished. On top of everything why did the blacks burn down the city? I have to agree with Daley's "shoot to kill" order. One can only judge the value of something by its net result. After Daley issued his "shoot to kill" order the riots stopped. Kennedy sent the first advisors to Viet Nam, and Johnson escalated the war.
People also need to know that EVERY war America was involved with during the 20th century (with the exception of Desert Storm) occurred during democrat administrations. Of course this piece doesn't talk about the fact that the demonstrators brought bags of animal blood that they broke and then blamed their "alleged injuries" on police brutality.
I watched all of this LIVE and knew people who were assaulted by the rioters. Let's get the TRUTH out here. RIP Richard J. Daley.
You jagoff
One of the most galvanized political figures of all time.
Do you mean Galvanizing or Polarizing?
Chicago was one of The Very Few & BIG cities not going broke. In those early days especially
Someone said that these city bosses are the only way cities can be effectively governed.
He ran the city with an iron fist and the city ran better during his reign. 40:35 garbage was picked up on time, said it for years it didn’t matter who the mayor was if your garbage was picked up every week the mayor was your man, that might seem trivial to many but to working class people that meant a lot
But did he dispose of the trash? Or just have it picked up and put in to office? Seems during his time there was wide spread corruption trash and The Chicargo Outfit were reported to control the courts, judges and lawers. So even if the murder trash, or any trash was picked up the executives coulld get the worst released. So they may pick up the City Trash one week but it was still there the next.
Anyone know the names and artists of the music in this? Specifically the one in the closing B-roll as there’s an aerial shot over the Chicago River with Hizzoner giving that “Beautiful City” quote.
excellent
The Mayors of Chicago from 1955-present:
Richard J. Daley 1955-1976
Michael Blandic 1977-1979
Jane Byrne 1979-1983
Harold Washington 1983- 1987
Eugene Sawyer 1987- 1989
Richard M. Daley 1989-2011
Rahm Emanuel 2011-2019
Lori Lightfoot 2019-present
Lightweight has destroyed the city of Chicago because crime is out of control.
Please vote Lightfoot out!!!!
Lori Lezfoot, I mean Lightweight 🤭
Stop lying on Lightfoot.. none of them mayors had a 3 year pandemic on their watch a 3 year and counting snapshot of poverty and despair which is the recipe for violence and all this mess was there in the 1960s.. y’all are delusional and racist and homophobic.. read a book.
Lightfoot was voted out .
Heres to Hizzoner! To his memory we'll be true!
We now know . The forces of evil have begun . The 2023 is now reality
Took Daley 11 years to finish law school at night, wow. Pretty good doc.
Oh I remember these days.
This documentary goes well with the biography of Mayor Daley. AMERICAN PHAROAH.
"Race and the war." Yeah, that stymied a lot of political careers in the 1960s.
Dude, the Daleys were Irish mobsters lol. As someone who was an IL resident, it’s ridiculous to leave that out, everyone knew it.
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If anyone want to know about the Chicago housing projects like the Robert Taylor Project and other projects. Read the autobiography of Chicago born actor Mr T. He lived and was brought up in these housing projects.
Still done today, more subtle...😶
Didn't see himself as a prosecutor but an executioner ok, I guess.
Where is Gianconno?
You mean 'Giancana'? .Samuel Giancana;. Chicargo Gangster Outfit Boss?
Liberalism ....a ticket to nowhere...this documentary is a hit job on the Mayor
Peter Graves, a great narrator.
Sounds like Hal Holbrook
It is Hal Holbrook
The biggest riots in terms of deaths occurred in Detroit in 1967 and the governor sent in troops with strict orders to hold off and once the rioters saw that the police weren't going to do anything they ran amuck. People didn't notice that there were far fewer deaths in Chicago than there were in other places where authorities pleaded and commiserated with the criminals.
abc --- CORRECT. | In sociology textbooks, R.J. Daley's picture illustrates white supremacy in the North.
You want Chicago history? Ask Paul Green.
You can say what you like about Mayor Daily, but with all his faults he was ten times better than Beetlejuice.
dec 1995
He was the true boss of chicago Machine politician and why not to mess with?
And what happened when HE died - disorder, dissent & dislodgement.
Richard Nixon, the Republicans and the upper class Democrats couldn't take down the old bosses, but the hippies (later the yuppies of the 1980s-90s) dismantled Daley's city brick by brick.
GOOD RIDDANCE. | R.J. Daley was a dinosaur, even in 1955, which is why he died his pathetic death on the clock in the office; seems he had no life other than being mayor.
HIPPIES & YUPPIES W/RACIST MENTALLITY, NO DOUBT! FUK DEM ALL!
Old school. The city was ran much better
You were a big fan of keeping those dark people in line, huh?
Steal elections? Democrats? 🤣🤣 nothing changes in politics!
A Democrat speaking of law and order? My how things have changed.
You miss the first twenty minutes? Bill Thompson’s corruption with the Prohibition era mob was the reason Cermak built the DNC machine. The GOP had a stronghold in Chicago, but lost it being in bed with Capone era mobsters.
Real Big Sigh.
Al Capone prospered under the several terms of GOP Mayor Thompson.
@@stevensica5918 and john Wayne gacy prospered under Democrat mayors.
@@stevensica5918 what a stupid response
If someone like him were Mayor of Chicago instead of Lori Lezfoot, crime would be down. 😄
ah girl you just went there
Didn't it say at the end of the video that he did not see law enforment as his responsibility. Wasn't Ornagized crime at another all time peak in Chicargo during his time in office?
@@MikeGreenwood51Yes and yes. The mob was still running amok until the 80’s.
My goodness how have I never heard of this guy. And it truly is awful how America treated black people in our not so recent past. Idk why I’m so like astonished / surprised by hearing about the countries history of racism I guess it’s because I wasn’t alive back then. But holy shit I’d definitely hold a grudge too if if i was black.
Daley worked very, very hard to keep Black people poor.
Well he was good and bad at the same time.
Blacks are always the victim.
The last great democrat
He was giga racist and sent his cops to murder and threaten people wtf is wrong with you.
He was also insanely corrupt, but political machines at the time kinda necessitated that. But yeah he was a shit fucking person and is probably in hell
Like did you hear about the blatant murder of members of the Black Panthers by the Chicago PD? Pigs claimed that it was a shootout, all of the available evidence points to it being a massacre.
Daley facilitated and allowed this shit, he was disgusting
Can somebody please tell me why did they hate us so bad! What did we do to them people. I'm so happy the world has change.
The world has change for the worst... Are you kidding me your happy. Wow...
@@nickp86 Yeah, now people can barely write English...
Kuz yous dn't wrk, always cmplaing & whining, & draining da PUBLIC AID SYSTEM. PUBLIC AID FREELOADERS, SECTION 8 LIVING FREE, DA WORLD DNT OWES YOUS, SHIT, CAPICS?
A superb documentary about a great mayor. It is unfortunate that his admittedly terrible handling of the protests during the 1968 Democratic convention tarnished his legacy of achievements in building up a wonderful city.
Bobby, you are a fine and decent Chicagoan!!! "Hizzoner"
Robert Bykowski --- HUH!? | Do you like the taste of boot polish?
All corrupt. That whole area. No one even tries to clean it up.
i quit. thanks, no communications for private residences with no work either says thanks for the information today 4-12-21 mondays.
Looks no different from any other Mob boss to me!
Look at Chicago now.....
As to Chicago in 1968, don't riot and violate the laws and you won't have anything to worry about. Democrats the party of the lawless.
The last GOP mayor of the city, Bill Thompson, was in bed with Capone and let him run wild. But yeah, keep parroting that talking point, rube.
Real Big Sigh.
He left Chicago a fine legacy of crime and violence.