Who Killed JFK?

We are apparently within days or weeks of learning what is in the JFK assassination files.

To provide an amuse bouche, as the French call it, the Daily Mail has a story about a mob-associated assassin, by name of James Files.

According to Files, he was located on the grassy knoll and fired a shot that hit JFK in the head. He added that he was not the lone gunman. A man named Charles Nicoletti fired from the Texas Book depository, near the place where Lee Harvey Oswald was located.

Nicoletti was a hit man for Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana.It is well enough known that Giancana despised the Kennedys. Before the 1960 election JFK’s father, Joseph Kennedy, met with Giancana and Anthony Accardo to make a deal. The Chicago mob would rig the election in Illinois and perhaps not just in Illinois. In return, the Kennedys would, once in office, lay off the mob.

As it happened, the mobsters kept their word. The Kennedy’s did not keep theirs. Bobby Kennedy had made a name for himself as the counsel of a Senate committee on organized crime. He used his position to harass mobsters like Giancana and Carlos Marcelo.

Once in office  as Attorney General, Bobby Kennedy did not lay off the mobsters. He pursued them more vigorously.

To the mob, this was surely a double cross. Giancana, in particular, hatd the Kennedy’s-- for double crossing him and the rest of the mob.

For the record, after the JFK assassination Giancana moved to Mexico. After a time he decided to return to America, and was summarily executed.

Anyway, one double cross does not preclude another. For those who were not sufficiently enraged about the situation in Chicago, there was the Bay of Pigs.

As you know, when Fidel Castro took over Cuba he expropriated hotels and casinos that belonged to organized crime figures. These latter got together with anti-Castro Cubans and the CIA to mount an invasion of Cuba. 

They were going to invade at a place called the Bay of Pigs. The invading force counted between 1,000 and 2,000 fighters. The Cuban forces were around 20,000. Obviously, the invaders had no chance. In truth, the only chance they had was the chance that the American military would provide air cover. Such was the plan, until JFK called it off. The invaders were all slaughtered.

This was obviously a double cross that required a response. One notes that the man in charge of the mob’s investments in Cuba was one Santo Trafficante, the boss of the Tampa mob. 

As it happened, Trafficante had a bag man, a man who flew bags of money from Havana to Tampa. The bag man was named Jack Ruby.

If you believe that Jack Ruby took it on himself to murder Lee Harvey Oswald because he felt badly for Jackie Kennedy, you will believe anything.