The Real Story Of American Gangster Drug Kingpin Frank Lucas, Our History

Subscribe to Our History: It s the story of the rise of a smalltime Harlem crook to African American drug baron. American Gangster tells the story of Frank Lucas the first Harlem gangster to turn the tables on the mafia by creating a heroin network responsible for a statewide epidemic. But Hollywood got the wrong guy. The new supplynetwork was the brainchild of an exArmy sergeant, smuggling huge quantities from South East Asia into the United States. In reality Ike Atkinson was untouchable until Frank Lucas exacts revenge and brings him down. Ike Atkinson is the Real Story of American Gangster. This film was first broadcast: 2016