53 Years Later, How Do We Feel?

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4. Mafia with help from CIA connected freelancers

I've done a lot of reading over the years, but the most compelling case was put forward by John H. Davis in his two books:

Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Kennedy Contract: The Mafia Plot to Assassinate the President

Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel of the HSCA reached a similar conclusion but counted Oswald as more then just a "patsy", which he wrote about in "The Plot to Kill the President".

I think it fits perfectly with the way the Mafia just does business, no grand conspiracy required. Some involvement by actors who worked for both the CIA and the Mafia. Essentially this was a Mafia hit in retaliation for the Kennedy brothers pursuit of organized crime and the loss of Havana casino money with the assistance of operatives who thought that Kennedy needed to be eliminated for the Bay of Pigs debacle and the loss of Cuba.