Leonard Lopate Weekend: John Freely, NYPD & the Mob, End of Life Care

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 16, 2017

Physicist and author John looks back on his life as a young boy growing up poor in Brooklyn to his time serving in World War II. WNYC’s George Polk Award-winning reporter Robert Lewis discusses his investigation into an NYPD assistant chief and a series of real-estate transactions that connect him and high-level members of the Bonanno crime family. Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter discusses her career path from wanting to be an ICU physician to becoming a doctor who specializes in palliative care.

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