Assassination researchers continue to connect the dots from previously declassified files
Author: Russ Tarby
Consider the tremendous arc of Tony Riposo’s musical career, from “hocus-pocus dominocus” with the Magic Toy Shop gang to “ring-a-ding-ding” with the Rat Pack. Thousands of Central New York baby boomers first heard Riposo’s consummate keyboard work in the late 1950s when he portrayed Twinkle, the silent, piano-playing clown on The Magic Toy Shop, a children’s show aired over WHEN-TV (now WTVH-TV). Riposo, who died Oct. 6 at age 92, was one of the most accomplished professional musicians ever produced in Syracuse, where he grew up on the North Side during the Great Depression. By the time he took the…
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