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Posted on 11/24/2012 7:28:16 AM PST by AtlasStalled
Forty-nine years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy former mob buster Robert Blakey contends the most likely explanation from the available evidence is that the Mafia was responsible as reported by Tovin Lapan for the Las Vegas Sun:
"I think the mob set Oswald up as a patsy. It's not that I think (Oswald) didn't shoot (Kennedy), but that I think he was set up so (investigators) would focus on the Cuban connections (and not the mob). Did the mob do it? I don't know for sure, but it explains more of the evidence than anything else."
Blakey, currently a law professor at the Notre Dame Law School, is the author of The Plot To Kill The President which first set forth the case that the Mafia got away with assassinating Kennedy as reported by David Talbot for Salon:
"[Blakey] would emerge as the Warren Report's most authoritative critic and a firm believer that Kennedy had died as the result of a conspiracy, masterminded by [New Orleans Godfather Carlos] Marcello and his Mafia ally, Santo Trafficante, the Florida godfather who had been driven out of the lucrative Havana casino business by Castro and who had been recruited in the CIA plot to kill the Cuban leader."
Historians increasingly have embraced Blakey's analysis, and in 2008 Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann published Legacy of Secrecy in which they rather conclusively establish the mob's responsibility for the hit against the President.
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in and produce the film adaptation of Legacy of Secrecy in which "DiCaprio will play FBI informant Jack Van Laningham, who befriends the southern mafia leader, Carlos Marcello, a man the book fingers as the potential mastermind of the 1963 murder (he reportedly even confessed involvement)" as reported by Terri Schwartz for MTV.
With regard to Marcello's confession to Laningham regarding the Kennedy assassination, in reviewing Legacy of Secrecy for the Herald Sun James Campbell wrote the following:
The strongest evidence the authors produce is Marcello's confession to an FBI informant in the 1980s. "The FBI had managed to get an informant inside Marcello's cell and Marcello trusted this guy," Waldron said. According to a 1985 memo quoted in the book, the informant told the FBI: "On December 15, 1985, he (the informant) was in the company of Carlos Marcello and another inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute, Texarkana, Texas, engaged in conversation. Carlos Marcello discussed his intense dislike of former President John Kennedy as he often did. Unlike other such tirades against Kennedy, however, on this occasion Carlos Marcello said, referring to President Kennedy, 'Yeah, I had the son of bitch killed. I'm glad I did it. I'm sorry I couldn't have done it myself.'"
Anytime some mob apologist delusionally waxes romantic about how patriotic the Mafia is, just remember that the boys likely were the ones who whacked the President. Now how patriotic was that?
Leni
How can one trust all those nutty, baseless theories about the Mob, LBJ, Big Oil, GHW Bush, Nixon,Castro, etc., etc.,...
No, I think I`ll accept the ample evidence that points to Lee Harvy Oswald having killed JFK.
But, like I said earler.. conspiracies are much more fun. They`re like a huge game of “Clue” in which everyone gets to play.
The last episode of the men who killed kennedy has disappeared from the DVD set as well as the internet. completely disappeared.
Anyone who is half awake can see there was a field of fire and all those people who ran to the grassy knoll knew one of the killers werwas there.
My favorite pizza hangout in Dallas is Campisi's. There is no evidence that old Joe Campisi was in the mob, but members of the mafia liked his pies, including Jack Ruby.
Roger that. They specialize in silence.
Plenty of jealous husbands and lovers had motives.
Watch as the two secret service men assigned to protect president Kennedy’s motorcade are ordered to stand down just minutes before entering Dealey Plaza. They are obviously not happy about being given these orders...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY02Qkuc_f8
The link is worth your time... very compelling and authentic..
The Kennedy assasination coverup renains vibrant.
The Warren coverup commission wouldn’t have seen the need to hide all of the evidence, had they not been accessories in the murder themselves.
Kennedy’s monetary policy was the reason for the assasination.
The Kennedy assasination coverup remains vibrant.
The Warren coverup commission wouldn’t have seen the need to hide all of the evidence, had they not been accessories in the murder themselves.
Kennedy’s monetary policy was the reason for the assasination.
Are we still on this subject? People have been lying about the Kennedy assassination since the Warren Report.
The Warren coverup report was the chief lie.
"The central myth of the JFK assassination was that a climate of hate inspired by the far right created the conditions for President Kennedy's murder. A single assassin may have pulled the trigger, but he was put up to it by an undercurrent of hatred and bigotry that President Kennedy tried but failed to subdue. On this view President Kennedy was a martyr, somewhat like Abraham Lincoln, to the causes of civil rights, racial justice, and an elevated liberalism . . . This explanation for the assassination did not drop out of thin air but was circulated immediately after the event by influential leaders, journalists, and journalistic outlets, including Mrs. Kennedy, President Johnson, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, James Reston, Russell Baker, and the editorial page of the New York Times, columnist Drew Pearson, and any number of other liberal spokesmen. Mrs. Kennedy took the lead in insisting that her husband was martyred by agents of hatred and bigotry."
Other sources: "The New York Times columnist James Reston article under the title, “Why America Weeps: Kennedy Victim of Violent Streak He Sought to Curb in Nation.” Reston wrote:
America wept tonight, not alone for its dead young President, but for itself. The grief was general, for somehow the worst in the nation had prevailed over the best. The indictment extended beyond the assassin, for something in the nation itself, some strain of madness and violence, had destroyed the highest symbol of law and order.
Later Reston asserted that there was “a rebellion in the land against law and good faith . . . All of us had a part in the slaying of the President.”
No he was not talking about riots in the cities.. He meant the "climate of hate inspired by the far right" and because it was allowed to continue.. that made it everybody's fault.
Oh well.. I hope one day all is known -- my money is on the one who had to most to lose if the brothers Kennedy remained in office: LBJ; Bobby Baker was already being investigated and the President and Attorney General were being briefed on LBJ.
If we can finally learn who done it then CoastToCoastAM can stop having annual specials with guests who blame one Republican or the other. This year it was Richard Nixon working with Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu the wife of Ngo Dinh Nhu, the younger brother and chief political adviser to Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of South Vietnam from 1955 until he was assassinated on Kennedy's orders in 1963.
No, they don`t “know” it.. they were chasing a sound that very likely was an echo. Eyewitnesses saw Oswald in the 6th floor window. And oh, by the way.. can anyone explain the “curtain rods” Oswald told Wes Frazier he was carrying into the TSBD?
No, the decisionto leave the bubble top off the vehicle was made at the last minute when the skies cleared sufficiently. Kennedy was there on a political trip to firm up his standing in Texas and wanted to portray as much openness as possible to the onlookers.
You have to be very very gullible to not see clearly there was multiple shooters. And I know better than to try and get you out of that brainwashed condidtion.
Not what I read.
However, your version makes it unlikely anyone could expect a clear shot along the route.
Did Oswald not know about the secure top?
I agree with your assessment of the Mob's usual tactics. They are historically very attached to their own turf and extremely reluctant to move onto other territory, because it makes a war break out among their own.
It's hard to imagine the Mob would have had a large "standing army" in Dallas to begin with, to grease the skids for them and tell them which cops were dirty and otherwise know the ropes. In the planning stages, it's very unlikely that they would have trusted an outsider with taking the shot and keeping quiet about it if captured. If Oswald had received front money, seems it would have shown up in the investigation, and it's unlikely he would have done it without front money, since he was chronically underemployed and had a wife and kid. It's even less likely they could foresee a way to then silence an outsider if he was captured after accomplishing the shooting -- unless they had paid off the cops to expose Oswald to Jack Ruby the way it went down -- during transport. It's possible. But it would depend so much on luck and perfect timing.
That's not to say that they didn't develop various plots and fantasies to kill Kennedy. Just that somebody else got there first.
I read O'Reilly's book Killing Kennedy. It didn't offer much insight into who did it, but did make it clear just how very many factions wanted the arrogant bastard dead.
And by the way, don't waste your time reading it. O'Reilly just couldn't help himself from hero-worshipping -- still -- the Obama of his day -- a good-looking, slick narcissist with a fashion-conscious, big-spending wife, a lot of dirty money and special interest groups behind him, and an unattractive opponent in the elections. I thought O'Reilly would have grown past that by now. To give credit, he didn't shrink from laying out JFK's disgusting sex addiction in black and white, and Jackie's materialism. But his presentation of these serious character flaws was still all mixed up with his childhood emotions about them -- that they were almost "saints" in the Irish-Catholic community where he grew up.
I personally, cannot bring anything to that question. However, he was a friend, if nothing else, to Tony Accardo in Chicago, and Accardo was THE MAN.. I took his daughter to her prom.. YIKES!
I too went to Campisi's often in Dallas when I went to my Club in Dallas.. He and I talked about his friendships in Chicago, but never about those things, and I wouldn't expect anything else..
I owned Elan, opened Jan 5, 1970, and invited the old man, Joe Campisi, but to my knowledge he never came to the opening, and I think he died less than a month later..
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