The hidden history of the JFK assassination : the definitive account of the most controversial crime of the twentieth century

The hidden history of the JFK assassination The definitive account of the most controversial crime of the twentieth century

Lamar Waldron, 1954-

Book - 2013

Waldron uses long-buried files and exclusive information not available to congressional investigators to explain how godfathers Santo Trafficante and Carlos Marcello committed-- and got away with-- the crime of the 20th century.

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Subjects
Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963 > Assassination.
Mafia.
Conspiracies > History > 20th century.
Published
Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press [2013]
Language
English
Main Author
Lamar Waldron, 1954- (-)
Physical Description
519 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-506) and index.
ISBN
9781619022263
  • Evidence of conspiracy
  • "Single bullet theory" demolished and a new look at Oswald
  • A Mafia godfather confesses
  • Carlos Marcello's rise to power
  • Marcello, Cuba, and Jack Ruby
  • CIA vs. Castro, and the Kennedys vs. Carlos Marcello
  • Marcello and Trafficante: planning JFK's murder
  • Marcello meets with Ruby and Oswald
  • Marcello and Trafficante infiltrate JFK's secret Cuba plan
  • Plans to assassinate Fidel Castro and President Kennedy
  • Oswald in New Orleans, Dallas, and Mexico City
  • Carlos Marcello and the hit men for JFK's murder
  • Targeting JFK in Chicago and Tampa in November 1963
  • JFK is assassinated in Dallas
  • Officer Trippet is killed and problems arise for Marcello
  • Another Mafia murder in Dallis
  • Secret investigations and getting away with murder
  • Mafia murders, confessions, and a million files still secret.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

The mob did it. In this updated, more compact version of his earlier Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination (with Thom Hartmann, 2008), soon to be a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, veteran investigative reporter Waldron (Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, the Mafia, and the CIA, 2012, etc.) fleshes out his argument that Mafia godfathers Carlos Marcello and Santo Trafficante ordered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Drawing on new interviews and declassified files, the author describes a small, carefully planned conspiracy orchestrated by Louisiana boss Marcello in retaliation for Robert Kennedy's war on the mob. Building on the 1979 findings of the House Select Committee on Assassinations that JFK's assassination was probably the result of a conspiracy and that Marcello and Trafficante had "the motive, means, and opportunity," Waldron weaves a complex, highly readable narrative with many disquieting elements. These include Marcello's meetings with Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby; Marcello's recorded prison-yard confession to a fellow inmate and FBI informer ("Yeah, I had the son of a bitch killed. I'm glad I did.I'm sorry I couldn't have done it myself"); and striking similarities in the behavior of Oswald and designated fall guys in two planned attempts on JFK's life during earlier motorcade visits in Chicago and Tampa. The author maintains that the godfathers took advantage of a planned U.S.-sponsored coup against Fidel Castro: They killed the president and managed to avoid detection in the subsequent coverup of the secret coup plans. Two European gunmen opened fire at Dealey Plaza, with Oswald as the fall guy, Waldron writes. Jack Ruby's orders were to find a cop who would kill Oswald or to do it himself, which he did. The book offers much speculation and plenty of instances of "perhaps," "probably" and "may have." True or not, this makes one hell of a story and ties up all the pesky loose ends of events in Dallas 50 years ago. The conspiracy crowd will love it.]]]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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