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JFK was hit by a team hired by Carlos Marcello under a contract from Sam "Momo" Giancana of Chicago.

If there were ex-mercenaries and Cubans on the team it would only make sense because a lot of these folks were out of work and living in Marcello's turf following the Bay of Pigs project.

Somebody was positioned to the rear of JFK who made three or four lousy shots but one in the back that probably would have been a killer. I always assumed that shooter was Oswald but who knows? The insurance shot was the one from the front and that guy was a real shooter. Maybe somebody who trained to whack Castro himself.

As for the Mob connection, I got that from the movie "The Rat Pack." Don't laugh, its a great movie and about the most logically satisfying conspiracy theory I have heard. Basically, Joe Kennedy gets help from Giancanna that enables JFK to win the West Virginia Democratic Primary. Joe freelances this project by using Peter Lawford to approach Frank Sinatra who in turn approaches his pal Momo. After JFK takes office he repudiates the deal his dad made and allows Bobby to investigage the Mob.

From this point JFK is a dead man. When he realizes how screwed he is he tries to make amends by sending Momo satchells full of cash via mutual GF Judith Exner. This is the part that really sells me. It is so Sicilian Mafia to make a transgressor first beg for mercy and then give you all his ready cash in exchange for leniency, and finally to just whack him like you meant to all along.

The Mob today is the spent shell of its former self. People don't remember how powerful they were in the early 60s. They thought they elected JFK (like everybody else that helped in that tight race) and they thought they were big enough to make him pay. Hit team members later got offed so the only ones left to tell the tale were made guys. Made guys didn't talk back then.

In the aftermath, the Warren Commission just didn't want to know about it. The truth was just too disgusting to be allowed to taint the Presidency and the Kennedys.

Careful my boy, you are getting close to violating FR's unwritten rules pertaining to conspiracy theory.
- Apparently, it is OK to challenge conventional wisdom on subjects that have a 'politically correct' aspect, as long as you are not too definite in your charges of who/what/when/where.
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