Whitey Bulger Case Puts Boston Mythology on Trial
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July 22 (Bloomberg) -- You know something is a big deal inBoston when it steals headlines from allegations that the NewEngland Patriots’ only healthy tight end committed multiplemurders.
But the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger is, if you canbelieve it, bigger than sports. It’s bigger than the pendingtrial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.Bulger’s trial isn’t just a fascinating, sordid tale. It’s atrue-life Sophoclean drama, enacted in a Bahston accent. And,most poignantly, it’s a requiem for a city that no longerexists.