I can't read the type under the "O'Dwyer Probe" headline. But, if it's really from '43, the jury probe could have been looking at Murder Inc., which O'Dwyer and his assistant, Burt Turkus, had started investigating in '40. If so, how appropriate!

Well then, the newspaper headline settles it. Vito was shot on Dec. 21st. Now, we don't know how much time transpired between that and the Sollozzo meeting. Since Mike's face looked pretty good at the meeting, that either reflects a movie production decision or that Mike's face had enough lapsed time to heal pretty good. I believe the former. Still it's probable that either side wanted too much time to elapse before attempting a peace or another try at Vito.

"We can't wait. I don't care what Sollozzo says about a deal, he's gonna kill Pop, that's it. That's the key for him. Gotta get Sollozzo."


However, I suspect that you may be correct Olivant in that they waited a while before hitting Sollozo and McClusky. According to Geoff's GF Website timeline, Michael did NOT go to Sicily until March.

You know how we may be able to find the answer to your question of how much time elapsed between the hit attempt on Vito and the killing of Sollozo and McClusky? The Montague scene, after the hit on Sollozo and McClusky, that show all the headlines of "Police Hunt Cop Killer," "CIty Cracks Down," etc. etc.

If I get a chance, later on tonight I will go to those scenes and see if I can catch the dates on the newspapers in that scene by freeze framing the scene.

Did they have 7 fish dishes and pasta and olive oil (I have no idea how to spell "al-ye, ool-ye" ?

While ya'll are postng about Italian Christmas, surf over to my Amici Italiani thread and post about Italian Christmas cookies.