JFK and the Mafia in Dallas

The Mafia had much to gain from JFK's murder, along with the CIA and others. So why did he ride around in an open-air car in Dallas? 🤔

While we still wait for release of the rest of the JFK files, the Daily Mail had an interesting article this morning on JFK and the Mafia in Dallas. I’ve long believed that the Mafia was a primary actor in Kennedy’s murder, and this DM story goes along with that narrative:

In fact, it was near certain that he wouldn't leave the city alive that day. For, as I set out in my new history of the Mafia – drawing on my former life with the mob working for New York's feared Gambino family – the sinister forces ranged against the president had, astonishingly, devised not one, but three separate plots to kill JFK in November 1963.

Two had been foiled already, but in their methods and their detail, these attempts on his life in Chicago and Tampa, Florida would eerily foreshadow the bloody fate that now awaited Kennedy in Dealey Plaza.

Each assassination plot had stationed sharpshooters on the upper floor of buildings above the route of a planned presidential motorcade.

Each was to be carried out by …