I’m primarily interested in who whacked Huey Long. That I think was FDR and Mob. First, because he was an outspoken critic well to the left of FDR. The Mob wanted him gone because long before prohibition there was corrupt local machines, from which the likes of Huey Long sprung. Only he was riding roughshod over the system, dipping his hands in the till with no attempt to disguise it, and disrespecting other members of the machine. So he was viewed as a liability. Truman was connected to the Kansas City machine, but he limited his involvement to giving patronage jobs to friends of Pendergast, and otherwise remained squeaky clean. So he was considered an asset to the machine. About Cermack, I have no opinion. Chicago had a lot of competing mobs, not just the Sicilian five families. Cermack sounds Czech, I’d guess. Don’t know where he fit in.
Huey had a long term connection with the NY mob through Frank Costello and I never heard it had been troubled. New Orleans had the first and oldest Mafia outfit in the country so it did not have to have a hit authorized by the Commission.
T. Harry Williams’ definitive biography and the fictional
treatment “All the King’s Men” did not provide any light.
Of course, you know that the killer was immediately riddled with bullets from the bodyguards.
The New Orleans Democrat machine was tied to the Mafia tooth and nail, as it was in every big city. So your theory may well be the case.
Cermak was Bohemian, so right, Czech.