Another Look at the JFK Assasination: Did the Mob Do It?

Discovery Channel is taking a new look at the granddaddy of all conspiracy cases.
On the anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy, Discovery is airing a special that claims that organized crime took out a hit on president—and managed to get away with it.
The documentary, “Did the Mob Kill JFK,” airs Sunday, Nov. 22, and bases its theory on an interview with a secret FBI informant who shared a jail cell with New Orleans mafia boss Carlos Marcello.
Marcello had been deported by the president’s brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. It was a part of RFK’s aggressive prosecution three top mob families, and the gangsters were looking for a way to stop him.
The hit came at a time when the CIA was working with the mob on a number of plots to kill Fidel Castro. (Castro was bad for business for the mob, whose Havana casinos had been big money makers.) By tying their hit to the questionable government activity regarding Cuba, the mob correctly figured that any real investigation of the Kennedy assassination would be buried by Federal law enforcement for years, according to the special.
The special features an interview with the informant, a bank robber who struck up a friendship with Marcello, who quotes the mob boss as saying “I had the little bastard killed. He was a thorn in my shoe.”
The informant says Marcello also told him about his connections with assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, who killed him. (Ruby owed the mob boss and silenced Oswald, mistakenly figuring he’d walk free as a hero.)
The catch on this smoking gun is that only some of these conversations are on tape. And the government hasn’t released the tapes or the transcripts.
The special does a nice job of trying to connect the dots between what was going on in Cuba, how the government and the mob were working together to eliminate Castro and RFK’s war on organized crime. 
It also unearths little known information about aborted attempts on President Kennedy’s life earlier that fateful November. These came in Chicago and Tampa, two other towns controlled by angry mob bosses.
A few weeks ago, “Mad Men” recaptured the shock of he day when the president was shocked. Ever since, people have been asking how it happened and who was responsible. This documentary gives us more to think about.