Prologue Host Ira Glass reads from a letter Benjamin Franklin wrote, and discusses it with Jack Hitt.
76: Mob Sept. 19, 1997 Act Three: Neighbors To The Mob Jerry Capeci, dean of the New York reporters who cover organized crime, on the decline of the mob in recent years. And Alec Wilkinson of the New Yorker magazine, who discusses a photo his wife took of his old neighbors, the Gambino crime family.