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McWillie was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He resided in Dallas, Texas from 1940 to 1958 where he at one point worked for Dallas mob boss Benny Binion and was employed at the Blue Bonnet Hotel and the Top of the Hill Terrace, a gambling club in Arlington, Texas. McWillie also ran a gambling house in Fort Worth called the Four Duces.

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  • Lewis McWillie
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  • McWillie was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He resided in Dallas, Texas from 1940 to 1958 where he at one point worked for Dallas mob boss Benny Binion and was employed at the Blue Bonnet Hotel and the Top of the Hill Terrace, a gambling club in Arlington, Texas. McWillie also ran a gambling house in Fort Worth called the Four Duces.
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  • McWillie was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He resided in Dallas, Texas from 1940 to 1958 where he at one point worked for Dallas mob boss Benny Binion and was employed at the Blue Bonnet Hotel and the Top of the Hill Terrace, a gambling club in Arlington, Texas. McWillie also ran a gambling house in Fort Worth called the Four Duces. In September 1958, McWillie moved to Cuba and managed the Tropicana Casino until May 1960. He worked as a pitboss at the Capri Hotel-Casino in Cuba from May 1960 to January 2, 1961, when he left Cuba. McWillie also worked in Aruba and Curacao. In 1961, McWillie worked at the Cal-Neva Lodge in Nevada and then at the Riverside Hotel, Thunderbird Club, Carousel Club (Las Vegas) and the Horseshoe Club. In 1978, McWillie was employed at the Holiday Inn Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. After the JFK and Oswald assassinations, the FBI interviewed McWillie about his relationship with alleged Dallas mobster Jack Ruby on two occasions and was mentioned in the Warren Report, which stated that in September 1959, Ruby went to Cuba to visit "a close friend and known gambler, Lewis J. McWillie". The two apparently met in about 1950 when McWillie operated a Dallas nightclub. McWillie, whom Ruby said he idolized, supervised gambling activities in Havana and later was employed in a managerial capacity in Las Vegas gambling establishments, in addition to this McWillie had also been involved in gambling operations in Jackson, Tennessee and Miami. McWillie once admitted to Warren Commission investigators that he was acquainted with many organized crime figures including Dino Cellini, Santo Trafficante, Jr., Dave Yaras, Jake Lansky and Joseph Civello in addition to being associated with many other members of the Dallas crime family, but stated that he only knew them "casually". The FBI referred to McWillie as a "murderer", although his only arrest was for auto theft as an adolescent. He spent the remainder of his days living in Las Vegas where he died of natural causes in 1986.
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