Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Joseph Barboza" in English language version.
Barboza was a Portuguese-American, from New Bedford, and he dreamed of being the first non-Italian to be inducted into the Mafia. But behind his back, Mafia boss Raymond Patriarca referred to him as "the nigger."
Sometimes, Vinnie would slip and refer to Barboza as "the Nigger." He'd quickly follow that up and say that wasn't Vinnie's name for Barboza, but that the nickname was out on the streets. "He's sorta dark, as you know," Vinnie would explain.
Upon reading the letter, the boss called Barboza a "dirty nigger bastard" and vowed to kill him — inside or outside of prison.
As a stab at irony, Teresa would say that Barboza "hated Negroes" and had killed at least two guys solely because of their race.
The FBI set him up in a culinary school in Santa Rosa. He got a job in the kitchen of a freighter, and he also once worked for the Rathskeller Restaurant in San Francisco.
Joseph Barboza Jr. nasceu a 20 de setembro de 1932 em New Bedford, Massachusetts, onde os mastros dos graciosos navios baleeiros tinham dado lugar às negras chaminés das fábricas de têxteis e já havia ao tempo numerosa comunidade portuguesa. Era o segundo dos cinco filhos de Joseph Barboza Sr. e Palmetta "Patty" Barboza (nascida Camille). Ele nascido nos Açores em 1903 e ela em Massachusetts por volta de 1908, embora algumas biografias digam que eram ambos naturais de Lisboa.
In Santa Rosa, Calif., during the summer of 1970, Joe "The Animal" Barboza murdered small-time thug Clay Wilson, while under the protection of the federal witness protection program. As this was the 26th murder committed by Barboza that the FBI knew about [...]The FBI believed that he'd already committed 26 murders.
