Salemme (Frank “Cadillac”) is born in Boston.

Frank Salemme grows up in Jamaica Plain, becomes involved in organized crime, and participates in the Boston “gangland murders” of the early 1960s. He serves 17 years in prison for placing a bomb in the car of a mob attorney, survives an assassination attempt in 1989,* and briefly becomes head of organized crime in New England, before being sent back to prison on racketeering charges. After learning that two of his colleagues – James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi – were informants for the FBI, Salemme testifies against the pair and is subsequently placed in the federal witness protection program, but later convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice and imprisoned again.