I'm a former Chicago newspaperman who covered Outfit [Chicagoese for *mob*] and other criminal activities in the Windy City before the daily rag for which I worked was gunned down.
I think there was aconsiderable mob/outfit connection, but that *those guys* hardly actedalone, no more so than they did regarding their halfhearted attempts at wacking Fidel Castro. They do SO much better with a little governmental assistance...and the first try on JFK was to be while JFK was en route to a Chicago area football game on 01 November 1963, by a mentally questionable Marine with a rifle from an upper-story window- sound familiar?. The fate that befell Abraham Bolden, one of the Secret Service agents who forestalled that try, is a real tragedy; you'd think that the exploits of the Service's first Black agent would be proudly hailed, but nooooo....
How do I find more about the 'other two' attempts on JFK? ... The provenance on the rifle is absolutely fascinating! And it tells me something of (at least) why Ted 'the swimmer' Kennedy never ran for President and why little brother Bobby was so feisty to run for the job!
What's your opinion of Peter Dale Scott's Deep Politics and the Death of JFK?
He goes into extensive detail about Chicago and Rubinstein.