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In the last episode, we stepped back into the world of Jack Ruby, not in the basement of the Dallas Police Department, but in the decades that  led him there . By the end of the last episode one thing was clear: Jack Ruby was suspiciously close with many organized crime figures and he very likely was running guns to Cuba before Castro took over. If the last episode showed us  how  Ruby entered the orbit of organized crime, this episode looks at  just how deep inside that orbi

When Jack Ruby stepped out of the crowd and fired a single shot into Lee Harvey Oswald’s abdomen, the best chances of finding out about Oswald’s potential role in the assassination died with him at Parkland Hospital. In Episode 26, we dissected Ruby’s actions from November 21st through the 24 th of 1963, including the suspicious security lapses at the Dallas Police Department, the strange money transfer Ruby made minutes before the shooting, and the conflicting testimony abo

Thus far in this section on the Mafia, we’ve looked at the history of American organized crime, with the Kennedy brothers playing an adversarial role in that story, beginning with the McClellan Committee. We heard what the Church Committee had to say when it came to Robert Maheu and the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Fidel Castro. Then, we learned that Johnny Roselli was still embedded with the Cuban exiles, even after the Church Committee said he was not.   We’ve given the spotligh

We’ve been looking at key mafia figures who were most likely to have been involved in a plot to kill President Kennedy. In the last episode, we talked about Jimmy Hoffa, Meyer Lansky, and Sam Giancana.   In this episode we pick up where we left off by studying Johnny Roselli and Santos Trafficante to try to gain an understanding of whether there is any truth to the idea that the mafia, or anyone affiliated with it, was involved in President Kennedy’s murder.   Johnny Roselli

One of the reasons why many people believe that the mafia was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy is because the mob had motive to get rid of him. Given the performance of the Kennedy brothers on the McClellan Committee – Chief Counsel Robert Kennedy, in particular - most of the bosses in La Cosa Nostra did not expect the Kennedys to suddenly become lenient towards organized crime. Of course, Sam Giancana’s agreement with Joe Kennedy, Sr. likely had the effect of

“There are some very important witnesses who simply have not been interrogated fully on this matter. Subcommittee was unable to do it in the time available and there are important leads that were uncovered in the investigation that clearly need to be followed up.” – Frank Church   “This report documents the failures of the U.S. Intelligence establishment in their investigation of President Kennedy’s assassination and their cover up to the Warren Commission.” - Senator Richard

So far in our expedition to uncover the truth about who killed President Kennedy, we’ve looked at the Secret Service, finding that there were numerous instances of security stripping and anomalies in Dallas, many of which were tied back to a single agent - Winston Lawson, but there was no clear explanation for why Agent Lawson took the actions that he did.   We also analyzed the role of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, finding that, while Hoover failed to relay a couple of mafia

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So far in this Season 3 of Solving JFK, we first studied the Secret Service, finding that there were numerous anomalies – too many to be...

There are countless issues that we could cover when it comes to the FBI’s involvement in the JFK Assassination. For the purpose of our...

In this episode, we look at the specific threats against President Kennedy that the FBI was aware of, but, for whatever reason, did not...

The question we’re trying to answer this season on Solving JFK is - assuming that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone (if at all) in...

We’ve now wrapped up our study of the Secret Service - one of the many alleged plotters that we’ll be covering during this third season...