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In reply to the discussion: Mass Media ignoring 'RFK Believed in Conspiracy' shows corrupt nature of America's Press [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)the bookie knew Sam Saia for years...worked for or with him. Saia was a mob leader in New Orleans. Oswald's mother, who was somehow related to the bookie, also knew Saia. Oswald used to hang out at a gambling club in N.O. owned by that mob leader. How well Oswald knew Saia, I don't know. But Saia would have at least known Oswald and his hatreds, etc., which Oswald freely talked about.
Saia was a close associate of Carlos Marcello, another mob leader. Marcello had been called to testify about mob activites before a govt committee - JFK was on teh committee, and RFK was chief counsel to the committee. RFK, as AG, later deported Marcello, as part of his effort to wipe out organized crime. Marcello came back to the U.S., though.
Jack Ruby - the man who killed Oswald. He had connections with New Orleans, Marcello, and another mob leader in New Orleans. In fact, he had been in N.O. and met with Marcello and one or more other mob leaders just a few months before the JFK assassination.
I've seen documentaries on every conspiracy theory out there, I think. Most of them were pretty far reaching. But I had to admit that while there was no evidence of mob involvement in the JFK assassination, there were certainly a lot of coincidences. Too many, maybe? At least it would be investigated today by any investigator working a serious murder.
It's possible that Oswald was used as a patsy. I can't imagine that anyone would seriously hire Oswald as an assassinator, given his erratic behavior. But use him as a patsy, maybe. But what to do if he was caught, that he might talk? That doesn't make sense, either. Even if they had planned on killing him, he might've talked before they could do it (like Ruby did it?).
So, I don't know. There's no evidence. Just a lot of coincidences. But there sure are a lot of connections there among Oswald, the mob, and the Kennedys.