@amerika @IceCubeSoup @Richard @andreas @newman Also, Scorsese's portrayal of "Bill the Butcher"/William Cutting is more Hollywood than History. But you wouldn't know that, because you haven't actually studied the Know-Nothing movement in actual historical archives like I have.

Here's the real 'Bill the Butcher':
https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/download/44142/43863/