Jfk's Connections To The Mafia

¨The Mob hated JFK and his family. Giancana had longtime ties to the Kennedy clan, going back to JFK's father, Joseph P. Kennedy, who was involved with Giancana in the bootlegging business during Prohibition. Additionally, Gianciana was an associate of singer Frank Sinatra, a close Kennedy friend, and allegedly was a donor to JFK's 1960 Presidential campaign, at a time when politicians weren't required to disclose their deep-pockets contributors. The Mob set up JFK and voted for him. In 2009, Tina Sinatra, daughter of Kennedy friend of Frank Sinatra, told the TV program 60 Minutes that the legendary singer at the behest of JFK's father, Joseph P. Kennedy approached Giancana. Sinatra allegedly asked Giancana to use mob muscle to pressure local union members to vote for JFK. The Mob also didn’t like that he had failed to remove Fidel Castro. The mob certainly had potential motives. Several mob leaders were upset that Kennedy had failed to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who had closed down their lucrative casinos in Havana after he took power in 1959. The President's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, further had aroused their animosity by launching a high profile probe of organized crime and aggressively pursued Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa for alleged corruption and ties to the Mafia. The Mob had lots of bad things happen with the JFK family, but was it enough for them to kill JFK themselves? I could have happened but others could have had done iti too but we don’t

mob killed Kennedy in revenge and also to stop the attorney general's campaign ("Did the Mafia

Another interesting conspiracy is that the mob was involved in the whole assassination. To be more specific it is widely thought to be Carlos Marcello who was the head of the Cuban mafia. It is said that the mafia was mad at John and Robert Kennedy for their effort to wipe out organized crime. It is said that a few CIA agents had taken part in the conspiracy. ("Whether It's CIA, Mafia, LBJ or Even Aliens, JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories Never Die.")

When America's era of Camelot suddenly came to a stop, the nation froze and the world

When Sinatra started to sing at different nightclubs and one of the ones he frequented was The 500 Club owned by Skinny D’Amato. Joe Kennedy asked Peter Lawford, an old colleague of Sinatra, to ask Sinatra to join the campaign. Sinatra did many things for the Kennedy campaign including recruiting his mobster friends to put money into the campaign. JFK was fighting an uphill battle in West Virginia to win the state's democratic primary; he was far behind and needed to win. As a favor to Sinatra, Skinny D’Amato (owner of The 500 club in Atlantic City) went to West Virginia to buy the civic and labor leaders to deliver the votes. Sam Giancana, the mob boss of Chicago, gave D’Amato the money to put into Kennedy’s war chest to buy the West Virginia Primary. Through wiretaps “investigators and congressional committees...learn[ed]...by mobsters that...at Joe Kennedy’s urging [mobsters to give] money [to] an early primary election [that was] won by John Kennedy in West Virginia” (Rabb 126). It was a tight race between Nixon and Kennedy and Illinois was the only state left between the two to see who would win. For Kennedy certain districts were needed in Chicago. Joe Kennedy asked Frank Sinatra to contact Giancana in Chicago. The mob thought that with Kennedy in the White House JFK would tell his brother Robert F. Kennedy to lay

There is so much evidence that Oswald did assassinate J.F.K., but there are many conspiracy theories that he might have been innocent. One reason that Oswald is part of a large conspiracy theory is because there were no fingerprints on Oswald’s rifle until after he died, there were people from the Secret Service dressed as surgeons while Oswald was in the operating room, and Oswald's casket had been broken (the vault was broken) which meant that somebody got into Oswald’s casket.

MAFIA - "a secret association having for its object the illicit control of any enterprise, legitimate or illegitimate, which it decides to infiltrate" (Allen 6).

Joseph Kennedy, JFK’s father, had ties to the head of the Chicago mob, Sam Giancana, as they supposedly worked in the bootlegging industry during the prohibition. The mafia also had motivation for the involvement or carrying out the hit with Robert Kennedy, JFK’s brother and attorney general having made moves against organized crime, possibly angering them, but what many proponents of this Mafia theory point back to is Jack Ruby who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, he was a Dallas nightclub owner with known mafia connections but the Warren commission concluded that Ruby didn’t work within a conspiracy as well as in 1979 The House Select Committee on Assassinations stated that "The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the national syndicate of organized crime, as a group, was not involved in the assassination of President Kennedy, but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved" . High end officials also believed that the Mafia had a role within the assassination conspiracy with the chief counsel for House Select Committee on Assassinations, Robert Blakey later concluding in his book, The Plot to Kill the President, that New Orleans Crime sydnicate boss Carlos Marcello was likely part of a Mafia conspiracy behind the assassination, and also had the means and the opportunity required to carry it

JFK was connected to the Mafia because of the U.S. primary election in 1960, in which senator John F. Kennedy was running. Joseph P. Kennedy, JFK’s father, wanted the Mafia’s help in delivering the union vote in the 1960 West Virginia primary. Joseph P. Kennedy also asked Frank Sinatra, who worked for the CIA then ask the Chicago crime boss, Sam Giancana, to help in delivering the vote for JFK. The Mafia and Sam Giancana followed through with what Joseph P. Kennedy had asked them to do. Sam Giancana and the Mafia voted for JFK and persuaded others to do so also. This helped Kennedy win the West

Although Dallek states in his book the Mafia helped to elect Kennedy president there is evidence this did not happen. In his 2006 article Wood discussed an analysis of the 1960 vote totals from the Mafia controlled election districts in Chicago. It was found individuals in those areas did not show a significant increase in votes for Kennedy. The election totals for West Virginia have also been questioned over the years.

In the 1920s and 1930s America saw a large growth in mafias & mobs, drug & Alcohol Trafficking, and the organization of crime were a result of the Prohibition.

According to many, "it was previously believed that the Chicago mobsters might have orchestrated the plan to assassinate President Kennedy" ("Latest JFK Theories" 3). On one hand, JFK critically used the mob to win the election as well as to take care of business or to do the President's dirty work. On the other hand, JFK employed Robert F. Kennedy as Attorney General to prosecute and get rid of the mafia leaders. Although the Chicago mafia might have been responsible for ordering the hit on JFK, it is still unclear to see whether they were influenced or assisted by some members of the CIA or some other sort of government agency ("Lasted JFK Theories" 1). "So who killed JFK?" As soon as the President passed speculations of Lee Harvey Oswald being responsible, the President's death rose among American's.

The Italian Mafia in the U.S. can trace its origins all the way back to the Sicilian Mafia which was founded in Sicily during the 1800’s (Italian Organized Crime). After thousands of years of different armies with different nationalities conquering Italy and exploiting its people, the Sicilians became to be more clannish and family focused. Originally they were just resistance fighters that were protecting their friends and family. They were relied on for protection, justice, and survival. Nobody cared if they got money from it because it came from the oppressive authorities. Members of these groups were known as “Men of Honor” and they were well respected and even admired because they looked out for their family and kept silent sometimes even unto death. They didn’t become an organized crime group until the 1920’s however (Italian Organized Crime). It was around this same time that the US began to see what later became La Cosa Nostra or “our thing,” better known as the American Mafia which was aided by the “thousands of Italian organized crime figures, mostly Sicilian Mafiosi” who came to the United States illegally (Italian Organized Crime). The modern American Mafia is credited to Charles “Lucky” Luciano who came over in the 1920’s (Italian Organized Crime). Luciano structured La Cosa Nostra just like their Sicilian

Fannie, and J. Joseph Gotti gave life to a baby boy on October 27, in 1940, but who knew that on that day a new crime boss would be born? John Gotti, a native of the South Bronx, New York, would grow up in a life of crime. John Gotti became head of the Gambino family.

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