Robert Blakey: The Mafia Is Most Likely Culprit Behind Kennedy Assassination

Friends of Ours ^ | 11/24/12 | Friends of Ours

[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?

[LongWayHome]

That’s an amazing story. I can imagine you were quite unnerved after hearing that. I knew a guy from college who’s uncle was CIA in the 60s & his uncle told him a very different story about the Kennedy killing than the one sold to the public. Still, if there was a plot I suspect it would have come out by now. So I figure LHO did it himself.

[ScottinVA]

Oh, please.. evidence re: the so-called “multiple shooters” is nonexistent.

And your comment about “brainwashed” is fascinating, since I`m the skeptic here.

[SunkenCiv]

GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach	join list or digest view topics view or post blog bookmark post a topic subscribe
Thanks AtlasStalled. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[Doulos1]

Yes, I agree with you. Oswald did do it with the help of the KGB.
http://www.humanevents.com/2007/12/28/kennedy-assassination-and-soviet-kgb-connection-explored-in-book/

[fabian]

Sorry...it is OBVIOUS EVIDENCE!

[ScottinVA]

The only obvious evidence that exists is that pointing to Oswald. If you still doubt it, then...

Why did he own that Mannlicher-Carcano which was found near the sniper`s nest WITH HIS PRINTS ALL OVER IT?
Why did Oswald leave his wedding band and nearly every cent he had that morning to his wife Marina?
Why did he sneak the Mannlicher into the TSBD the day of the assassination under the guise of “curtain rods?”
Why did Oswald tell co-workers he would remain alone on the 6th floor, instead of joining them at a lower level... asking them to send up the freight elevator?
Why did eyewitnesses — including Bob Jackson, DMN photographer who two days later shot the Pulitzer-winning pic of Oswald`s killing — see him standing in the 6th floor window with his eyes trained on the motorcade route?
Why did eyewitnesses at street level see the barrel of the Mannlicher extended out the 6th floor window?
Why did Oswald`s co-workers hear the weapon firing directly above them?
Why did Oswald bolt out of the TSBD and end up in Irving, proceeding to gun down J.D. Tippit when Tippit stopped him?
Why did Oswald attempt to shoot the cop making the arrest on him at the theater?
Why did paraffin tests reveal Oswald had been exposed to gunpowder residue?

[ScottinVA]

Jackie Kennedy also said it was ironic that JFK was killed by a single communist shooter rather than for his stances on civil rights.

If there was more to the assassination, why didn`t JFK`s family push for more investigation beyond the Warren Commission? For all his many faults, did Ted Kennedy impress you as someone who could be cowed into silence?

[MinuteGal]

"Accardo was THE MAN....I took his daughter to her prom....YIKES!"

YIKES is right! I once double-dated with Accardo's daughter and HER date. Maybe it was you!

My date was driving and we picked her up at her dad's home in River Forest, a western suburb of Illinois.

We all went inside the Accardo home while waiting for her.....and we got a tour of the place from a matronly-looking grandma or housekeeper. It was an ornately-furnished interior in a fine home in the "rich" part of town.

At the time I had no idea of her father's connections, hmmm. Well, we were teen-agers and life was just little Ford convertibles and gym jams!

River Forest adjoined Oak Park, home of Sam Giancana, also of Chicago mobster fame. Giancana lived a few blocks from me in a modest brick bungalow. One evening, he was assassinated gangland-style in his pine-paneled basement kitchen where he was cooking sausage and peppers.

Giancana was the subject of the book "Mafia Princess" written by his daughter, Antoinette. The book was later made into a movie starring Tony Curtis.

There were many mobsters who lived out in the Chi-town suburbs. They were quiet, inobtrusive neighbors, never fouling their own nests, instead plying their nefarious trades out of the big city adjoining.

Those were the days, my friend!

Leni

[kjo]

Read the book.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Those were the days, my friend!

We thought they'd never end.....

Interesting post!

[kjo]

Yes...Bobby told Bill Walton (not the basketball player), a close friend that the only way his family could get to the bottom of his brother’s murder was when he, Bob, was in the White House.

RFK sent Walton to Russia to meet with a personal friend of Khruschev to tell him that it was a domestic plot and the Kennedy family did not hold him resposible.

Kenny O’Donnell...JFK close friend and aid was one car behind the president when the shots were fired. When the motorcade got to Parkland Hospital O’Donnell went to the FBI who were there and told them the last shot came from the front. O’Donnell was told by the agents he must be mistaken...all the shots came from the rear...and not to make trouble for the family.

Within a few minutes of JFK’s death the fix with the FBI was already in.

Ruby was sent in...Oswald killed, Ruby dies in prison and case closed.

The Warren Commission is official baloney. Two biggest frauds on the Warren Commission: FBI spy Gerald Ford, who later becomes POTUS; and Arlen Spector, a young attorney who invents the single bullet theory...his career is made for the rest of his life. The fake.

[carlo3b]

Good heavens Leni, would that have been a hoot, but it didn’t happen.. The kids that we met at the hotel, were all neighborhood kids that I knew from our family restaurant on North ave. Jim and Petes..

I was recruited to this nightmare at a funeral of some fat guy, named Selarno, that my dad dragged me to.. She, Linda was there with her dad Accardo.. I never even said hello to her, because I didn’t get close to him or his daughter at the Wake.. My dad told me the next day, that The Man, wanted me to take his girl to the prom.. HUH?

Seems she was messing around with a bunch of jerks, which I had to agree, and he wanted her to go with someone he could trust.. Well he had that right, if it was any other girl, that might have been a laugh, but I wouldn’t mess with her if my life depended on it.. and I was convinced it did..

She was cute as h#ll, but a real Bi#ch.. LOLOL

I took Linda Lee, to her prom, at the Lake Shore Drive Hotel, then to the Villa Venice for a show.. Later she made me join her friends at a stupid drinking party at the Wisconsin Dells.. We got home 4 hours late.. GULP!

He met me at the door, and took my hand, and handed me an envelope with money, a list of clubs that “he had arranged” for us to be taken care of, and a phone number that I should call if ANYTHING HAPPENED.. OMG what did that mean... He said to be home at midnight.. right..

I had my Dads car all polished and filled with gas.. She jumped into her convertible and I had to quickly jump in after her, she drove away like a bat out of h#ll.. The two cars behind us were screaming at me to tell her to slow down.. This wasn’t going to work out well for me..

Anyway, she threw the list away, and told me that she was in charge, or she would call that number and tell her Dad that I tried to rape her.. %@#$

The entire episode was a nerve-wracking experience.. She was a spoiled brat, that put me on the edge of trouble all night, by drinking and smoking, and ditching our tail, by driving recklessly every where we went.. I never saw her again after dropping her off..

He met us at the door, and told me to keep the money, I told him we didn’t spend a dime, and I didn’t want the money.. He said TAKE IT, and Thank YOU, and slammed the door..

[fabian]

Prints are not hard to plant...there are many multiples of more factual evidence that shows multiple shooters than you proposed here for Oswald, but there is no point and I am not going to waste my time. We even have the mobster’s admissions in prison, but you are going to excuse that away too. People like you simply stick to their beliefs once decided in their minds, regardless. Your type of person is a confuser and very very gullible to deny the obvious simply to remain right in your own mind. Be my guest!

[WilliamofCarmichael]

My main interest is not who done it -- it is the frenzy I remember that was unleashed on the emerging modern conservative movement -- yet another one and the many copycat versions that followed up to today and, to be sure, off into the future. If they would just come up with something besides "Hate!" "Racism!" "Bigots!"

Though if I had to say who done it.. I repeat.. 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, the brothers Kennedy wanted to replace LBJ and the President and Attorney General were being briefed on LBJ's past and present. That's what I recall.

RE: "... did Ted Kennedy impress you as someone who could be cowed into silence?"

Depends.. in front of friendly media, on the floor of the Senate, on the floor drunk wrestling and molesting waitresses in restaurants and bars -- no Ted Kennedy could not be silenced.

By 1968 RFK may have wished he'd chosen to be silent -- at least that one time. Maybe you remember it.

"The McClellan [1950s Senate] Committee became another national obsession, with Bobby Kennedy the star during televised hearings in which Kennedy grilled leading Mafia figures of the day, most of whom repeatedly invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. Bobby Kennedy taunted his adversaries relentlessly; during one such grilling of Chicago Mob Boss Sam Giancana, the wiseguy erupted into a nervous giggle, prompting Bobby Kennedy to taunt: 'I thought only little girls giggled, Mr. Giancana!'"

[Bob Ireland]

***There were many mobsters who lived out in the Chi-town suburbs***

Any named Axelrod or Emmanuel? ...Jarrett?

[prairiebreeze]

Ugh. So glad I grew up where I did and that I live somewhere else than Chicagoland anymore.

[ScottinVA]

Still too many may-haves and could-haves.

I find it very difficult to believe Ted Kennedy — for all his liberal nastiness — wouldn`t have moved heaven and earth to get to the truth about the assassinations of his two brothers, were there any reason to suspect something was afoot other than the truth, even if if for nothing else, gaining political capital.

As I said earlier, conspiracy theories are interesting and fun, and people enjoy participating in them and adding their own input. But they`re no substitute for the truth.

[ScottinVA]

C`mon Fabian... everything to which you`ve referred is speculation. People say all kinds of crap to get attention while in prison. Nothing those you`ve referred to have been corroborated or substantiated.

And you still haven`t addressed the evidence I mentioned, other than “faking” prints.

The beliefs I stick to are fact-based, not tied to some loosely connected anecdotes and theories.

[fabian]

There are a ton of facts that you don’t care to know and I am not going to represent them on a silver platter here for you. Anyone with a little awareness can see clearly even just from the shooting video, that the back of the head was splattered open. That only happens from a frontal head shot. There is not question. You can try to concoct a question, but that is rather absurd. Have a good one! You need it!

[ScottinVA]

I saw the vid, too.. believe what you will.