My Name is Bulger

Greetings again from the darkness. Even those of us who aren't "Southies" know the name James "Whitey" Bulger. Johnny Depp portrayed him in BLACK MASS (2015) and Jack Nicholson's character was inspired by him in THE DEPARTED (2006). Of course, that's just cinema taking the legend and running with it. In the real world, we recall seeing the televised clips of the FBI capturing Bulger in California in 2011, after 16 years on the lam and being a fixture on the FBI's Most Wanted list ... and then seeing the reports of his being beaten to death at age 89 in a West Virginia prison mere hours after his transfer. Very suspicious - but who weeps for the mobster? Well, documentarian Brendan J Byrne offers some insight. It turns out, even mobsters have brothers and sisters and kin folk.It's the family ... one brother in particular ... that is the focus of this documentary. Whitey's younger brother Bill, was the President of the Massachusetts Senate for 18 years, after which he became President of