Just two days after Kennedy’s murder, police transferred Oswald to the County Jail. Swarms of reporters and photographers gathered to catch a glimpse of the suspected assassin. Suddenly, a man emerged from the crowd and fired a single bullet into Oswald’s abdomen. Oswald was announced dead two hours later. Police immediately arrested the murderer: he was Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, another man with alleged ties to mob boss Carlos Marcello. Mobsters: Legacy of an Assassination
With the heat on back in the States, and desperate for a return to the glory days in Havana, the Mafia Chiefs are more than willing when the CIA comes to them for help with those ongoing attempts to oust Castro, and now that the mobsters know about the secret Kennedy coup plan AMWORLD, they have the cover they need to kill the President with virtual impunity. JFK Assassination: Mob Connection
When Oswald was arrested for Disturbing the Peace in New Orleans, he was sprung from jail by a man with close connections to the Marcello’ organisation. Professor Michael Kurtz, South-Eastern Louisiana University
Marcello was doubly elated because John Kennedy was dead and he was acquitted. Marcello hated Kennedy and made no bones about it. Professor Michael Kurtz
Lee Harvey Oswald had life-long family ties to Carlos Marcello’s organisation. He had an uncle who had become a bookmaker in the Marcello’s organisation. David Kaiser, author The Road to Dallas
Lee was penetrating a ring he’d gotten introduced into by David Ferry and Clay Shaw, and Lee put on the robes of one who was interested in seriously assassinating the President, and this was never ever the case in reality. Judyth Vary Baker, mistress of Lee Harvey Oswald
The CIA was in the State and so was the Mafia. Norman Mailer
Several months before the assassination Lee came in sort of wild-eyed and sweaty and he said, ‘I shot Walker’ ... The failure to hit Walker, very close failure though it was, is the Rosetta Stone of the Kennedy assassination. It showed that Lee really wanted to kill someone. Priscilla Johnson McMillan, author Marina and Lee
The Walker attempt of April 10th 1963 is the Rosetta Stone in the Kennedy Assassination because it showed me that he was ready to shoot someone, and what went into it, and the feelings that he projected on to public figures – and that is what you have to study to understand the Kennedy assassination. Priscilla Johnson McMillan
In the end President Kennedy ignored any idea of controlled war. Instead, he told the Russians that if they launched one missile from Cuba, he would retaliate with America’s entire arsenal. To the strategists, this threat was irrational and humiliating. Adam Curtis, Pandora’s Box II: To the Brink of Eternity, BBC 1992
Four years before he shot President Kennedy, Oswald had defected to the Soviet Union. To many this was proof he was a Soviet agent. Adam Curtis, It Felt Like a Kiss: The Living Dead, 2009
The most puzzling death of all was the apparent suicide of an Oswald associate, George de Mohrenschildt. The Murder of JFK: A Revisionist History, 1999
In the aftermath of President Kennedy’s assassination a legacy of secrecy and deception is born. Now, forty-six years after the assassination, an informant has come forward to reveal the Mob’s darkest secret. Did the Mob Kill JFK? 2010
The bank robber [Jack van Laningham] would become an informant for the FBI and soon he heard the godfather [Marcello] make an astonishing confession. A confession that if true might finally solve America’s most infamous and enduring murder mystery. ibid.
Marcello gets his close associate and pilot David Ferry to smuggle him back into the US. ibid.
The first attempt was not in Dallas but was made in Chicago. ibid.
Two hours before JFK’s planned motorcade, Chicago Police stop Thomas Arthur Vallee. In the boot of his car they find an M1 rifle and three thousand rounds of ammunition. Even more troubling, agents learn that Valley works in a printing company that overlooks the President’s motorcade route. ibid.
In 1964 during a prison interview with Warren Commission investigators, Ruby pleads with them to take him back to Washington where he can safely tell them the real story. But his request is denied. And three years later Ruby succumbs to cancer. ibid.
While America reels in shock, in the Tampa Hotel where the President has spoken just four years earlier godfather Santo Trafficante reportedly toasts JFK’s death. Lamar Waldron believes Santo Trafficante along with Johnny Roselli and Carlos Marcello have pulled off the Mob’s most daring hit ever. ibid.
What still perplexes many are the reportedly numerous government cover-ups that followed the assassination. ibid.
In 1986 FBI informant Jack Laningham said goodbye to his cell-mate Carlos Marcello. Van Laningham maintains it took three more years for the FBI to administer a polygraph in which he verified hearing Marcello confess to JFK’s murder. ibid.
They had to kill JFK to end the Kennedys’ war against them or literally they were going to go out of business. Lamar Waldron, Kennedy assassination researcher
Unknown to JFK the CIA was continuing to work with Trafficante, Roselli and Sam Giancana in a secret plot to kill Fidel Castro. Lamar Waldron
The Mafia didn’t have three different plans to kill JFK, they had one plan and they tried it in three different cities. The second city where they tried was four days before Dallas in Tampa Florida. Lamar Waldron
They were able to assassination JFK in a way that forced Bobby Kennedy and other key government officials to cover up much crucial information to protect that top-secret coup plan. Lamar Waldron
In my guts I was so shock and horrified. I knew I had enough, and I couldn’t tolerate much more than this. Jack van Laningham, FBI informant, Carlos Marcello’s cellmate
And I have no doubt but that Mr Roselli knew the identifies of those persons that Castro enlisted for the purpose of killing the Kennedys. I have no knowledge of the identity of those persons. Edward Morgan, attorney for murdered John Roselli, televised interview 22nd August 1976
There were last minute changes invoked by the secret service involving President Kennedy’s security. Specifically, agents were told not to ride on or near the rear of the limousine ... The Dallas police department outriders were told not to be beside the car. Vince Palamara, Secret Service specialist
Informant: I don’t know if Kennedy’s coming here. I think on the 18th or something like that to make some kind of speech.
Milteer: You can bet your bottom dollar that he is going to have a lot to say about the Cubans; there are so many of them here.
Informant: Yeah well he will have a thousand bodyguards; don’t you worry about that.
Milteer: The more bodyguards he has the more easier it is to get to him.
Informant: Well how in the hell do you figure would be the best way to get to him?
Milteer: From an office building with a high-powered rifle. He knows he’s a marked man.
Informant: You think he knows he’s a marked man?
Milteer: Sure he does.
Informant: They are really going to try to kill him?
Milteer: Oh yeah, it’s in the works.
Informant: Boy, if that Kennedy gets shot, we have got to know where we are at. Because you know it will be a real shake if they do that.
Milteer: They wouldn’t leave any stoned unturned; there is no way. They will pick up somebody within hours afterwards, if anything like that would happen, just to throw the public off ... You wouldn’t have to take a gun up there ... Take it up in pieces ... All those guns come knocked down and you can take them apart ... Joseph Milteer, right-wing activist in Dallas in seedy downtown apartment, taped by police informant; Milteer perished in mysterious house fire shortly after assassination
Fort Worth, Texas, Friday November 22 1963 8.45 a.m. Dawn grey and cold over Dallas Fort Worth but there was an atmosphere of gaiety in Fort Worth as John F Kennedy and his gracious wife paid the city their first official visit. News commentary, cited The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination, National Geographic 2009
Arrival of Air Force One Dallas Love Field 11:40 a.m. There’s no trouble at all spotting Mrs Kennedy with a bright pink dress, a wool dress, a pill-box type hat. ibid.