"...this week we will be diving into the possible players that could have been involved in the assassination who could have done it who could have planned it out who could have set the gears in motion who could have pulled the trigger whodunit there are some key groups that we have found out were part of this or could have been part of this we will go over all of them and we will start with one of the biggest in Notorious groups that could have been behind this assassination Ian and that is La Cosa Nostra the mafia so to understand how the mafia plays a possible part in the assassination of JFK we have to look at all the things prior to 1963 as well documented that the mafia and the CIA had a professional relationship they teamed up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro after the Bay of Pigs the casino operations of the mafia had taken a hit resulting in millions lost and in operation Mongoose the mafia would a the CIA by having one of the mafia Associates who worked in the kitchen of Castro attempt to poison him the reaches of the mafia even extended to the FBI as it said operation Mongoose was a secret program aimed against Cuba to remove communism from its power so right off the bat we have to look at the mafia as a very viable threat when it came to JFK it's no secret that JFK had quite a few enemies at the time of his assassination which makes the conspiracy ever-growing Lee Harvey Oswald it was later found out through investigation kind of had ties to the mafia was peripherally attached to them but Jack Ruby the man who ended up killing Lee Harvey Oswald definitely had ties to the mafia if you look back at Jack Ruby's history he was born in grew up in Chicago so he became an affiliate of the Chicago Mafia family's mainly the families who ran Chicago's big crime outfit from 57 mainly 2862 giancana family were also heavily involved in the 1960 presidential election Victory with Kennedy JFK in and Robert their father Joseph he was running bootlegging during the time of prohibition and he kind of had the ins and outs of when prohibition would end through being friends with politicians and people high up in the world and he ended up buying up all the scotch from these British importers and he bought up all the scotch so when prohibition ended he made this mass amount of and he stepped on the toes of the Mafia the time especially within the Chicago area and other major cities well I'm sure that doesn't float too well assuming that that was a huge massive income for the illicit markets of the time yeah you're looking at the time of prohibition where the mafia like..." Having Fun? Do you love the show? Hit the subscribe button and leave us 5-star ratings and/or great reviews.

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