Slapping him doesn't mean he had anything to do with the shooting. A lot of people wanted to "slap" Colombo at the time, just that Carlo IF we were to believe the son was like a father figure to Colombo sr, was the only one that could
Not to mention, if Carlo wanted Colombo dead he would have got him whacked inside that bar. NOT in front of the worlds media and woman/ children (Gambino is gonna trust a black guy not to accidentally shoot any innocents??)
That had the hail marks of political assassination written all over (the son seems to think that too)
Anthony Colombo clearly had his own agenda, pretty much the entirety of the circumstantial evidence points to Carlo Gambino being behind the Colombo murder and setting it up in such a way that Joey Gallo took the fall.
Not to mention I've read his book, and he also paints the picture that Colombo was politically assassinated, but he also tries to imply that his father didn't run a crime family and was simply a civil rights leader.
