Posted on 12/04/2016 9:25:28 AM PST by heterosupremacist
“The mob putting out a hit on JFK?”
The mob would have been the hired trigger men only.
Haha. It’s funny that people still believe that their government wouldn’t lie to them about things like this.
I think Oswald was the only shooter.
Still am not sure he was not put up to it by Castro or the Mob.
Who does she think killed Kennedy?
Earlier this week, the University of Houston Law Center was fortunate to have as its guest Professor Daniel Kanstroom of Boston College of Law. An expert in immigration law, he is the Director of the International Human Rights Program, and he both founded and directs the Boston College Immigration and Asylum Clinic. Speaking as the guest of the Houston Journal of International Law’s annual Fall Lecture Series, Professor Kanstroom discussed issues raised in his new book, Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora. Professor Michael Olivas introduced Professor Kanstroom to the audience, and mentioned the fascinating tale of Carlos Marcello, which Professor Kanstroom wrote about in his chapter “The Long, Complex, and Futile Deportation Saga of Carlos Marcello,” in Immigration Stories, a collection of narratives about leading immigration law cases. My interest piqued, I read and was amazed by Kanstroom’s description of one of the most interesting figures in American legal history.
Carlos Marcello was born in Sicily and came to the New Orleans as an infant with his parents in 1910. After dropping out of school at age 14, Marcello likely became involved with the Mafia, and led a bank robbery in 1929. Marcello was caught, and was sentenced to nine to twelve years in the state penitentiary, but served only four before receiving a pardon from the governor (thanks to his father’s political influence). After his release, Marcello continued his criminal career, leading to his arrest and sentencing for selling twenty-three pounds of marijuana to an undercover FBI agent in 1938. Undeterred, he was involved in gambling establishments, and continued his criminal enterprises, leading one reporter to call him “the crime czar of New Orleans” in 1950.
After invoking the Fifth Amendment in a hearing before the Senate’s Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, he solidified his reputation before the government, and deportation proceedings were initiated against him. But, the government would have to wait more than thirty years before they truly had their man.
Deportation proceedings began in 1952, when Marcello was arrested pursuant to an immigration warrant stemming from his 1938 marijuana conviction. After he was found deportable by INS officers and the Board of Immigration Appeals, Marcello appealed through a habeas corpus petition in the Eastern District of Louisiana. The court found his due process argument lacking, and noted that “no amount of due process would help him” anyway, but did allow Marcello’s release on bail. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the District Court’s decision, and Marcello’s case reached the Supreme Court in 1955.
In Marcello v. Bond, 349 U.S. 302, Marcello’s lawyer, Jack Wasserman, argued that the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act under which Marcello was to be deported, deviated from the Administrative Procedure Act in its hearing requirements. This deviation was especially significant especially when it came to the separation of functions within an agency and its officers, a key provision of the APA, which would have demanded more separation in the roles of officers in adjudicating Marcello’s deportation hearing. The Supreme Court delivered a 5-3 verdict, affirming the decisions of the lower courts, and finding that Congress, in passing the Immigration and Nationality Act, expressly exempted the Act from the APA’s hearing requirements. A strong dissent followed from Justice Black, who stated “a fair hearing necessarily includes an impartial tribunal.” Outrage from the ABA and other groups followed, and the case helped lead to the reforms Wasserman argued for in new INS regulations promulgated in 1955 and 1956.
Now, the time had come to deport Marcello. The INS only needed to find a country who would take him. Marcello designated France as his choice country, only to be rejected. Italy also rejected his request (possibly after a large bribe to an Italian Court Official). This left the United States with a problem, leading to more delay for Marcello’s deportation, along with Marcello’s continued court actions, further delaying his deportation.
Marcello appeared again before a Senate committee to investigate labor and corruption in 1959, with Robert F. Kennedy as chief counsel. As he had done years before, Marcello again refused to testify on the grounds of self-incrimination. Two years later, Robert F. Kennedy had become Attorney General, and remembered Marcello. Marcello had obtained, for some reason, a fraudulent Guatemalan birth certificate (again courtesy of a large bribe), finally giving the U.S. a destination for his deportation. On April 4, 1961, Marcello was arrested and flown, as the sole passenger, to Guatemala. Marcello managed to re-enter the United States shortly thereafter, through Miami, and continued in his ways.
Once he returned, did Marcello mastermind a Mafia conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy? Did he have any involvement in the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.? And how did he manage to stay in the United States for the remainder of his years, before dying in 1993? Did he ever pay for his crimes? You’ll have to read the rest of this immigration story to find out, but trust it is well worth the read.
Be sure not to miss Professor Michael Olivas’s chapter as well, “Plyer v. Doe, the Education of Undocumented Children, and the Polity,” about the case that tested whether Texas could enact laws denying undocumented children access to public schools. Both these two stories, and the others in the book, bring the “exceptional” character of immigration law to life, and paint a picture of how our nation’s immigration laws have affected the lives of so many who have sought the American Dream.
Thanx. I read a book about him and his plot to kill Kennedy. Mafia Kingfish.
I tend to agree. There have to be conspiracy stories to cover up the fact that a bitter, loner, no-count nut brought down the most powerful man in the world. The Gooberment failed big time.......imho.
From an old Art Bell show with old DC insider Jack Anderson hawking his book on the JFK "hit"...
...the Mob was pretty ticked off at AG RFK for going after them, and JFK for not taking out Castro when he had the chance, and Castro was pretty ticked off as well, so...
...Castro hired the Mob with the false promise of returning their casinos seized by the Castro regime.
Again, remember it was an aging Jack Anderson writing what probably was his finally hurrah. I think he died about a year later.
YMMV.
Funny how there’s no conspiracy stories about who shot Reagan.
They so much wanted Kennedy’s murder to be a “Right Wing Conspiracy”, Cronkite repeated over and over how Dallas was a bastion of Extreme Right Wingers during CBS coverage of the assassination.
Those are the dots that are connected. but after that, no dots.
The mafia are corrupt but they’re not stupid. If they were going to go after anyone, they would have gone after Bobby who was spearheading (in appearance) this effort. But even that would be very risky. I also have a feeling the mob knew the Kennedy could be bought. I think they were right.
I think Kennedy’s assassination probably took the mob by surprise like it did everyone else.
No evidence of the mob complicit in JFK’s assassination.
Well, peripheral circumstances being what they may, there is no evidence of the mob complicit in JFK’s assassination.
Exvept Reagan survived, and while I’m not downplaying the seriousness of the attempt on his life or his injuries, the assassination attempt on Reagan became something of a footnote to his presidency. Kennedy’s death altered the course of American and world history, the degree to which is as open to as much speculation as are the reasons and parties behind the death itself.
Right you are.......Cronkite was a liberal old fool that got lucky.........;)
I can argue both ways. The mafia was not known for killing public figures and politicians.
On th other hand the Kennedy’s were persecuting them as far as they were concerned and Giancana was worried about jail.
Why kill Bobby when he reported to JFK? If you kill JFK yogurt back at the guy you helped get elected and LBJ would not keep Bobby around.
A lot of people had the motivation to kill; JFK.
The dog who didn’t bark: That is the most amazing part of the many histories.
On my birthday, Nov 9,1963 a Seattle high school friend of mine came to my Wheaton college off campus room. He told me the commies were going to try a coup d’etat. He and his friends that trained in the mountains of Colorado and other patriots from around the country were going to Dallas to protect the USA form the commies. He opened one of his custom suitcase. It was full of gun parts that screwed together. He urged me to join him. He had enough weapons for everyone he could recruit to join him and his friends.
I had heard this guy, and others, make similar claims in the past. Being inclined to paranoia myself, I was active in both far left and far right groups to balance reality.
Nov 9-22 the left wing “student” groups, YPSL etal, were recruiting us to go to Dallas to prevent a right wing racist coup d’etat by Dixiecrats unhappy with Kennedy not sufficiently resisting progressive history. (The group in the Colorado Mountains was nowhere close to racist...just anti-commie and anti-Russian.)
So on Nov 22, 1963 Dallas was had hundreds of heavily armed people from each side who did nothing. As a dutiful citizen I contacted the FBI and offered my input. They never had no interest. Of course, it was commonly assumed that the FBI had informants and undercover agents in both left and right wing groups and already knew this.
Thi ia the dog who did not bark.
Kilgallen was also a very good singer in the 1940’s. Heard her on Sirius radio, one of the oldtime music shows.
“What’s My Line” was a great show and the cast was both intellectual and interesting. The later version with Paul Lynd was hilarious too. In one short sentence, he could crack-up the house.
Good people back then. Not snarky, prima donnas, or egotistical prigs.
As Archie and Dingbat would sing, “AH, Those Were the Days”.
RAT Arkansides didn’t start with the Clintons they go back to before Andrew Jackson. They’ve just got a different name.
She doesn’t have any opinion actually. She was a kid. She remembers parties at the mansion and trips to the race track. Along with the fact that there were certain rigged races and the gang would win big on those rigged races.
Oswald was such a good shot he blew the back of Jfk’s head off from behind. The magic bullet speaks for itself.
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