The LuLac Edition #1692, July 27th, 2011
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JFK AND THE MOB
Yesterday Paul Golias of the Citizen’s Voice wrote an article about the conspiracy theories on the John Kennedy assassination. As a student at King’s College I produced and hosted a 5 part radio documentary about the Kennedy case. So I guess I was one of those conspiracy theorists he writes about. I always felt that the Kennedy assassination had more to do with organized crime than one might think. I base this on a biography I read written by Joseph Kennedy Seniors caregiver Jane Gargan. Gargan said that when the President and Attorney General visited the elder, infirmed Kennedy, he would get agitated beyond belief struggling to speak with either of them in sometimes violent outbursts. Remember it was Joe Senior that cut deals with the Illinois mob to have his son barely carry the state against Richard Nixon. My thoughts are that he was trying to tell Jack and Bobby to go easy on the mob investigations. Anyway, here’s Paul Golias’ fine article.
Those of us who believe that he was killed as part of a conspiracy can hope that heightened interest in the killing and perhaps new revelations dug out by a new generation of researchers will further tighten the knot that binds the conspiracy web.
The publication of The Bufalino Files by The Citizens' Voice gave the best insight yet into the life of the man who was the mob boss of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and beyond, for decades. Especially pertinent was the connection of mob guys then and now to political and judicial corruption in Luzerne County. We take a back seat to no one when it comes to big-time crime.
Thus, it is not far-fetched to ponder whether or not Wyoming Valley was the home to one of the mobsters, Bufalino, who sanctioned Mafia involvement in the Kennedy murder and helped carry it out.
The Bufalino Files make it clear that Bufalino's home in Kingston was under surveillance. Was it being watched on a night in November 1963, when Frank Sheeran came calling?
Sheeran was a mob associate and he did many jobs for Bufalino and their mutual friend, Teamsters Union chief Jimmy Hoffa. Sheeran confessed to killing Hoffa in 1975 on Bufalino's orders, a tale told in the landmark "I Heard You Paint Houses" by Charles Brandt. (Note also that the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund provided the loan that built Pocono Downs in the early 1960s and Hoffa was identified in the mid-1970s as a secret owner of coal lands in Northeastern Pennsylvania).
Sheeran told Brandt that Bufalino summoned him to Kingston and then dispatched him to see "our friend" in New Jersey. A mobster there gave Sheeran a duffle bag and Sheeran, a World War II combat veteran, said he quickly deduced that the bag held three rifles. Sheeran was told to take the bag to a cement business in Baltimore and there he met two men who he would not identify. One was yet another mob figure, perhaps Johnny Roselli, and the other was a pilot, perhaps David Ferrie. Regardless, the two men transported the guns by air to Dallas, Texas.
On Nov. 22, 1963, at 1:30 p.m. eastern standard time, President Kennedy was shot to death as his motorcade passed through Dallas.
Sheeran added that Bufalino made reference to Dallas in the mid-1970s as he and others tried to get Hoffa to forgo his demand that he resume the presidency of the Teamsters. Hoffa was investigated doggedly by Robert Kennedy, attorney general and brother of the president. Hoffa eventually was jailed, only to be pardoned by President Richard Nixon.
"Remember what we did for you in Dallas," Sheeran quoted Bufalino as telling Hoffa.
Hoffa disappeared on July 30, 1975. Sheeran, who died in 2003, told his life story to Brandt who has authored several books on mob figures.
The FBI had an office in Wilkes-Barre in the 1960s. The agent in charge was Charles Adams. He was mum on FBI investigations but reporters knew that the FBI had an eye on the Dorrance Street home where Bufalino and his wife lived.
One of Adams' annual assignments was to bring in a canned birthday tribute to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI. It was mushy pap but newspapers around the U.S. ran the paean every year.
Ah, the webs that have been woven: The night before Kennedy was slain, Texas politicians and oil men held a party at the home of one of the oil magnates, Clint Murchison. And who was the guest of honor at that party? J. Edgar Hoover.
posted by David Yonki @ 12:51 AM
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3 Comments:
Lee Oswald was a malcontent. A child from a broken home who had many issues growing up. A wife beater (as many in coming from that environment end up) who could not hold a steady job.
He possessed delusions of grandeur--hence his trip to the Soviet Union (from which he was deported). He moved to New Orleans to chair the Fair Play for Cuba Cmte.
In short he was a man in search of glory.
His first attempt was shooting at Gen. Ed Walker (who by the way, was a staunch segregationist).
His stint in the Marines gave him the ability to shoot properly. The distance from the sixth floor of the Depository to the street where Kennedy sat was very short.
It is not impossible to get off three shots in ten seconds.
Afterwards, he shot JD Tippett, a Dallas police officer who was attempting to apprehend him.
To put it in a nutshell, Oswald killed Kennedy, plain and simple.
Conspiracy theories remain, but it is quite clear that after nearly fifty years that had there been other evidence of other culprits, it would have revealed itself by now.
At least that's how I see it.
I have changed my mind a couple times over the years on Oswald. I would not be surprised if there was Mob involvement. I am convinced that he was one, and there may have or may not have been another, shooter. I hold to this possibility because of the manner in which President Kennedy's head snapped back! Seems to indicate a shooter in front to me. Dallas and the Federal Government bungled the investigation all around. The Warren Commission set out to prove a particular agenda and accomplished that with the data they were furnished. A later investigation looked promising but fizzled out. Oliver Stone presented a fictionalized account and people were still touchy on the subject. He never said thats what happened. It was fiction.
In the end I doubt we will ever know much more than we know now and the mystery will remain...
It was not, in my opinion, a US Government sanctioned plan in any way or rogue CIA or LBJ or a Texas operation! The Governments role in screwing things up came after the shots were fired.
Then again some day I may change my mind again..
Thanks for a good article I would not have seen.
Waverly Bob
Frank Sheeran told Brandt author Paint Houses: 1,).He claims to have transported guns (weapons) for the ill fated invasion of cuba (bay of pigs).2.)He claims to have met Kennedy conspiracy character David Ferrie.3,)He claimed to have transported rifle for the 1963 (11-22)Kennedy assassination.4.)He claims he gave David Ferrie 3 guns.5.)He claims sat down with Jack Ruby (killer of LHO)6.)He claims to have met with Key watergate figure E.Howard Hunt.7.)He claims to have transported( Russell) Bufalino to the famous Apalachin gathering.8.)He claims to kill man in chicago.9.)claims to have kill gangster Joey Gallo.10.)He claims have killed gangster Salvatore Briguglio.11.)He claims that assassination JFK was a mafia hit. 12.)He claims he was not directly (but indirectly) involved in the JFK assassination but He did transport 3 rifles to the alleged assassins via David Ferrie.13.)He claims july30,1975 He went to Machus Red fox Restaurant (6676 telegraph Rd )with chuckie Obrien drove Jimmy Hoffa Frank Sheeran mobster Sal Briguglio to a house in Detroit (17841 Beaverland Rd/Curtis St Troy Mich)He and Hoffa walk in and he shot Jimmy Hoffa and He claims there were 2 men clean up crew tom/steve Andretta.That he left house was told Hoffa was cremated.(andy discounts these things). But If you look at Jack Ruby addresses polk city directories and his brothers /Sisters they all lived near the Mafia people of that time - Sam Giancana / Chuck Nicoletti. Don’t forget who Jack Ruby called Barney Barker, Dusty Miller, Lenny Patrick, Dave Yaras, Lewis McWillie, Irwin S. Weiner and Mike Shore. (footnote:Irwin Weiner told the HSCA that he received only one phone call from Ruby, and it was about a labor dispute involving strippers. He said that he knew nothing about 5 phone calls that his "close friend" Mike Shore received from Ruby in October 1963 Shore work Sinatra Reprise Records(Frank Sinatra /SamGiancana/SkinnyPaul A’mato CalNevaLodge).and Irwin Weiner /Allan Dorfman)Allan Dorfman associate of longtime President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with organized crime via the Chicago Outfit."IRWIN WEINER; WITNESSED DORFMAN `HIT' - Chicago Tribune"· Irwin Weiner was a Chicago bail bondsman and close associate of Hoffa and Giancana and was described by investigative journalist Jack Anderson as “the underworld’s major financial figure in the Midwest.” Nofio Pecora was an associate of an associate of Carlos Marcello.. 1974 Irwin S Weiner, Allen Dorfman, Tony Spilotro and Joey Lombardo stand trial in Chicago for fraud.(Spilotro/Roselli/Frank Rosenthal;/Marshall Caifano/ Frank Cullotta/HoleWallGang)!!
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