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The most convincing account yet of how - and why - the Mob killed JFK: New film by relative of Mafia boss sheds fresh light on assassination
DAILY MAIL ^ | 15 July 2022 | TOM LEONARD

Posted on 07/16/2022 7:41:04 AM PDT by dennisw

The most convincing account yet of how - and why - the Mob killed JFK: New film by relative of Mafia boss sheds fresh light on the President's assassination nearly 60 years on

Mafia boss Sam Giancana controlled a criminal empire stretching across the US

His great nephew Nicholas Celozzi reveals all in his new film, titled 2 Days/1963 The JFK operation included two assassins Johnny Roselli and Charles Nicoletti

As the most notorious boss of the Chicago Mafia since Al Capone, Sam Giancana controlled a criminal empire stretching across America.

He had an army of thugs to call on — but for two days in November 1963, he asked for help from his little brother, Pepe.

He was only a humble, illegal bookie in the Giancana empire, but Sam needed someone to chauffeur him around while the mobsters who usually did so were out of town.

As Pepe later confided to family, those men had gone to Dallas to do a job for Giancana — one that would become a seminal moment of the 20th century.

From conversations overheard at his brother’s mansion in Oak Park outside Chicago, Pepe worked out that their task was to help Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate John F Kennedy, then ensure that Oswald did not live to talk.

Since then, millions of words have been written about the killing of JFK: claims that the Mafia wanted revenge for his war on organised crime have vied with counter-theories that the president was killed by the CIA, the Pentagon, Fidel Castro, the Soviets and even Vice President Lyndon Johnson.

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To: dennisw
"From conversations overheard at his brother’s mansion in Oak Park outside Chicago, Pepe worked out that their task was to help Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate John F Kennedy, then ensure that Oswald did not live to talk."

Oh, it's conversations some guy claims to have overheard. Well it must be true then.

Oswald didn't get any help. He used his own rifle at his own place of work.

Ruby also got no help. His actions are well documented. They include no outside help, and in fact are impossible to have been planned in advance.

This story is nonsense.

"‘Really inside stuff, similar to what Francis Coppola did with Mario Puzo in The Godfather.’"

Except that Coppola and Puzo had no inside stuff. They didn't know anything about how the Mafia worked.

81 posted on 07/16/2022 10:40:50 AM PDT by mlo
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To: Big Red Badger
"The Parade route and the Cover-Up are just 2 of the things the mob needed to Control."

The route was dictated by where Kennedy needed to go to give his speech.

There was no coverup. The basic facts of the case were known within days, and haven't changed.

82 posted on 07/16/2022 10:42:54 AM PDT by mlo
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To: Dansong
"True. Ruby doesn’t suggest conspiracy it screams it. Ruby, a strip club owner, sacrificed his life for Jackie Kennedy? Sure..."

Ruby really was crazy. Read his testimony. It's plain nutty.

It wasn't possible for Ruby to plan his actions in advance. He was only in position to do what he did because he got lucky.

83 posted on 07/16/2022 10:45:03 AM PDT by mlo
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To: dennisw
Since then, millions of words have been written about the killing of JFK: claims that the Mafia wanted revenge for his war on organised crime have vied with counter-theories that the president was killed by the CIA, the Pentagon, Fidel Castro, the Soviets and even Vice President Lyndon Johnson.

I've also heard theories that it was the South Vietnamese (because JFK supported the assassination of Diem in 1963), and the Israelis (because JFK was hindering Israel from obtaining nukes).

Both were convincing cases when explained in detail. It seems one can make a convincing case for anyone killing JFK, by cherry-picking certain facts, and ignoring other facts.

84 posted on 07/16/2022 10:56:50 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: mlo

Lol at your posts.

The CIA had folks with sleepless nights working on the logistical nightmare of assassinating a US president and covering it up....

If they thought we had a nation of folks like you they would have realized they were just wasting their time—the public would just believe any story that got fed to them, no matter how absurd.

https://www.amazon.com/Bond-Secrecy-Watergate-Conspirator-Howard/dp/1936296837

E. Howard Hunt confessed to coordinating CIA logistic support for the assassination.


85 posted on 07/16/2022 10:57:34 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: desertfreedom765
How convenient that LHO is wacked by Jack Ruby who just happened to have terminal cancer.

I read a theory that Ruby was injected with cancer cells while in prison, to silence him. (No, I don't believe it.)

86 posted on 07/16/2022 10:59:13 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: dennisw
Mafiosi like to make things up. Remember learning folklore -- Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Mike Fink. America isn't like that anymore. Except for criminals. They're the ones with the tall tales nowadays.

The Kennedys were more likely to kill Johnson than he was to kill them. Please, JFK was no saint.

87 posted on 07/16/2022 11:07:28 AM PDT by x
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To: Big Red Badger

especially when only ONE person committed the crime.....some just love conspiracy LA LA land....


88 posted on 07/16/2022 11:08:43 AM PDT by basalt ( in the irons....)
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To: dennisw

Conspiracy theories linking the mob and the JFK hit seem pretty compelling. Another one is “Mafia Kingfish,” about Carlos Marcello, head of the Dixie Mafia in New Orleans. He was humiliated and, though Sicilian, summarily deported to Honduras (or Guatemala)by AG RFK, and harbored a tremendous hatred and desire for vengeance. He believed the best way to neuter Bobby, the tail, was to kill the dog. There are some gaps in the theory, but it’s a compelling read.


89 posted on 07/16/2022 11:11:53 AM PDT by DPMD ( )
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To: dennisw

“Oliver Stone’s 1991 film ‘JFK’ ...”

Oliver Stone’s sense of “history” is as loopy and sensationalist as he is.


90 posted on 07/16/2022 11:14:06 AM PDT by DPMD ( )
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To: cgbg

Yes, all of that is true. Many powerful groups had motivation.

We don’t know and may never know the true story.

But I do know that JFK Assassination, Vietnam and the 60’s cultural revolution was one of the major change points in American history. (For the worse).

Also since JFK, only a few Presidents have acted in the best interests of the American People. Reagan, Trump, and maybe Nixon. Look at how they were treated vs the rest.


91 posted on 07/16/2022 11:16:26 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: DPMD

““Mafia Kingfish,” about Carlos Marcello”

Agreed—excellent book—lots of interesting tidbits can be found there.


92 posted on 07/16/2022 11:19:46 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: plain talk

Zapruder was not standing on the grassy knoll, but on the concrete wing jutting out into Dealey Plaza right adjacent to the grassy knoll. His secretary was right behind Zapruder kolding onto his jacket to give him some support as Zapruder had vertigo. If anyone shot a rifle from the picket fence behind the grassy knoll, it would have been to Zapruder’s immediate right at about 20 feet away. The top of the fence would (And still is) at the level of your feet if you stand there. Have you stood there? I have many times. You would be looking right down at the shooter. The Zapruder film pans across the top of the knoll and ends with a short glimpse of the fence and what was behind it. Nothing. You can’t convince me that Zapruder, with his Army training, would not be able to see and especially hear a shot if one had been taken from behind the fence. It did not happen.Nix captures Zapruder on his film.


93 posted on 07/16/2022 11:23:44 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Big Red Badger

Yes, and yes. You cannot stand at the sniper’s nest as that is closed off by Plexiglas. But, you can stand at the identical window to the right of it and have an almost identical view.


94 posted on 07/16/2022 11:25:54 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: PalominoGuy

See my reply to plain talk, #93.


95 posted on 07/16/2022 11:26:52 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: DPMD
Agree with you.

My take is that Stone is a lying lefty POS lunatic.

96 posted on 07/16/2022 11:32:49 AM PDT by Radix (His Fraudulency Joe Biden)
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To: basalt

So you took the JAB?


97 posted on 07/16/2022 11:56:34 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: All

You don’t hit the president or another very big level target with just one shooter - you need more back up. 3 guys firing as the motorcade is exposed


98 posted on 07/16/2022 12:33:47 PM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: dennisw

Oliver Stone’s 1991 film ‘JFK’ wove an elaborate web of conspiracy around the shooting, including the Mob, CIA, Army generals, FBI agents, Dallas police, Cuban dissidents, New Orleans gays and paedophile ex-priests.

= = = =

Today, that film would include homophobes, transphobes, and white supremacists.

It would exclude LGBGTQ+, BLF, ANTIFA, EPPS.

Ultimately, Climate Deniers did it!


99 posted on 07/16/2022 12:34:50 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: marktwain

He didn’t hate Jackie. He would regularly expose his genitalia in front of her for laughs. Which she loved too.


100 posted on 07/16/2022 12:36:13 PM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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