[1] It held a concert in New York City at which Frank Sinatra, the national chairman, sang for an audience of 20,000.
[3] The American Italian Anti-Defamation League promoted a national campaign against the book The Valachi Papers on the grounds that it would reinforce negative ethnic stereotypes.
The American Italian Anti-Defamation League vowed to appeal directly to the White House if the book's publication was not stopped.
Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach reversed his decision to publish the book after a meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson; an action that embarrassed the Justice Department.
[4] In May 1966, Katzenbach asked a district court to stop Maas from publishing the book—the first time that a U.S. attorney general had ever tried to ban a book.