Documentary may tie Mafia to JFK assassination [coming to TV]

Baltimore Sun ^ | March 14, 2006 | Liz Smith

[JR0tten]

LAST NOVEMBER we told you here about a book titled Ultimate Sacrifice, which purported to offer new details about the death of President John F. Kennedy. It's too complicated to go into all the revelations in this massive work by Lamar Waldron, but let it suffice to say that the San Francisco Chronicle recently ran a rave review written by Ronald Goldfarb. He was the Mafia prosecutor under Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, and this is the first time anyone closely associated with either brother has offered praise for a JFK assassination book.

Now we can tell you that NBC has completed an hourlong documentary focusing on the information in Ultimate Sacrifice, and this top-secret project will air soon on the Discovery Channel. It is to be titled Conspiracy Files: JFK and will include material withheld from the Warren Commission and from congressional investigations as well. Such material has never been seen on TV before.

Some of the protagonists are Mafia kingpin Johnny Rosselli and other godfathers telling how they tried to kill the president first in Chicago, then in Tampa, Fla., and later in Dallas, where they ultimately succeeded.

This documentary will offer the only TV interview in more than 40 years with Abraham Bolden, the first black Secret Service agent assigned to the White House. Framed by Rosselli's gang, he was arrested on the day he went to appear before the Warren Commission. He has fought for a very long time to clear his name.

Discovery will offer us a few startling realities about how the Secret Service destroyed crucial files covering the Tampa and Chicago attempts, and how there are still "well over 1 million CIA records" about the assassination that remain secret to this day.

[JR0tten]

I know there was a thread about this book a couple weeks back. Now a TV Documentary on the Discovery Channel.

[beyond the sea]

how they tried to kill the president first in Chicago, then in Tampa, Fla., and later in Dallas, where they ultimately succeeded

I heard that reported on Coast to Coast by a very credible guy a few months ago. Dallas was not the first attempt.

[knarf]

Ya but ... why would the Mafia want to ice a president?

[leadpenny]

ping

[wally-balls]

I'm not sure that they want to be referring to Rosselli as the "protagonist" of the story. Unless I'm wrong, and I often am, the protagonist is, in literary usage, the hero

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Well Attorney General Bobby Kennedy did go after the criminals that were enemies of the criminals on the side of his father.

[T-Bird45]

Ya but ... why would the Mafia want to ice a president?

Short answer is because he was bought and paid for but was not holding up his end of his father's deal. The 1960 election was a case study in massive election fraud arranged for by JFK's daddy Joe to ensure JFK's election. The various elections rigged were conducted by the Mafia or their close associates, most notably in Chicago.

The deal he was not holding up his end on had to do with restraining his brother's (Robert, the attorney general) pursuit of organized crime and mob influence in the unions.

Lots of reference material out there on this -- seek and ye shall find or, in modern parlance, Google and spend your day lost in the hits.

[leadpenny]

". . . massive election fraud arranged for by JFK's daddy Joe to ensure JFK's election."

Yep, especially WV and Chicago.

[jamaksin]

"... Discovery will offer us a few startling realities about how the Secret Service destroyed crucial files covering the Tampa and Chicago attempts, and how there are still "well over 1 million CIA records" about the assassination that remain secret to this day. ..."

By these lights, it is amazing just how common this practice is.

[hershey]

Bingo.

[rellimpank]

--I can recommend the book, but it's not light reading--massively footnoted, etc.---

[sgtbono2002]

The mafia doesnt allow you to back out of a deal.

[beyond the sea]

They were doing a favor, and, they had a gripe of their own.

[Pharmboy]

And Jack Ruby was the button man for the Chicago mob who silenced the original shooter? Or is that too pat?

[beyond the sea]

1. The main character in a drama or other literary work.

2. In ancient Greek drama, the first actor to engage in dialogue with the chorus, in later dramas playing the main character and some minor characters as well.

3. A leading or principal figure, the leader of a cause; a champion.

[Savage Beast]

The protagonist is the main or most important character. It need not be a hero. It comes from the Greek word protagônistçs, from agônistes, competitor or contestant, from agôn, “contest” (the word agony comes from the same source). In classical Greek drama, the protagonist was the first character to interact with the chorus. In modern usage, there may be multiple protagonists, meaning multiple main characters, but they need not be heroic; they can be anti-heroes or whatever.

[Slump Tester]

Another good book that I imagine would dove-tail with this one is Double Cross

It doesn't get into the Kennedy assasination or Marilyn Monroe's murder until well into the book, but it's still interesting from start to finish.

[beyond the sea]

Yep........ by jove you've got it (jmo). Also Kennedy was blowing off the Vietnam "involvement" and the Joint Chiefs were not too thrilled. Then there was the CIA that JFK wanted to reorganize.

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Then there was:

"Most people know that the FEDERAL Reserve bank is creating the US dollars. But the truth is that the Federal Reserve is not federal at all, but owned by twelve super-wealthy International Banking families, such as the Rothschild’s and the Rockefellers. This setup is against the US Constitution, where the government is supposed to create our money (the 16th Amendment), which should be backed up by gold and silver."

"What JFK did was to create interest-free government money, backed up by the silver reserve, contrary to the Federal Reserve money, which is not backed up by anything as we will see. He wanted to pay off the US debt this way. He obviously knew the secret about the Federal Reserve, and decided to follow the Constitution. Of course, this was a very dangerous thing to do, because if he was allowed to continue, it could put the International bankers out of business in the long run. So this was even more serious than to reorganize the CIA. Interestingly, soon after the assassination the interest-free money was taken out of circulation."

[Condor51]

***Ya but ... why would the Mafia want to ice a president?***

You are kidding, right?

[beyond the sea]

The mafia doesnt allow you to back out of a deal.

Yeh ........ very bad form.