Tom Pendergast

Enjoy this re-enactment of Boss Tom Pendergast

Please join us and hear from Kansas City's Political Boss Tom Pendergast. Local historian, Bill Nicks, will present his first person historical re-enactment of Boss Tom. Learn about the political corruption of the 1920s and 30s, about the Pendergast political machine, his construction companies, the vote fraud trials, his incarceration in Leavenworth, his association with Harry Truman and much, much more.