In Popular Culture
- The Apalachin Meeting is described in the novel and mentioned in the movie version of The Valachi Papers.
- The meeting was comically depicted in the 1999 film Analyze This.
- Similar to many events in the Godfather novels, this is used as the primary influence of a Commission meeting that is raided by the police in the novel The Godfather Returns.
- Narration near the beginning of the 1990 Martin Scorsese movie Goodfellas mentions, "It was a glorious time, before Apalachin, before Crazy Joe..."
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