Marcello said to investigator Ed Becker in 1962 that he was going to kill JFK. Years later, not long before he died (Becker died a couple of years ago), he was asked what he though Marcello meant. In his opinion he said Marcello was angry and said it to vent, but he didn't believe Marcello was involved. There's also an FBI document where Marcello, when he was in prison in the 1980s, told a couple other prisoners that he killed JFK. The FBI tried to blow it off by saying he was going senile, but others pointed out that he didn't start to go senile until after his stroke in 1987 or 89.

A number of Chicago guys also claim Mob involvement. One version is that Giancana arranged it with Marcello. Giancana provided the shooters and Marcello provided the patsy. In this version the shooter was Richard Cain and with him was Charles Nicoletti and Milwaukee Phil. Others include Johnny Rosselli. Both of Sam Giancana's brothers, Chuck and Peppe, say that Sam told them all this. Bill Bonanno said that while in prison out of the blue Rosselli told him he killed Kennedy. There are other Outfit guys who also said that the Outfit killed him.

Ralph Salerno, on the other hand, said he went through all of the FBI transcripts and saw nothing to indicate any Mob connection. Salerno, a NYPD detective and organized crime specialist, testified before the 1979 Committee on Investigations. FBI agent Bill Roemer said essentially the same thing. I have a lot of FBI files and I didn't see anything either, but I also notice that there are a lot of gaps. Rosselli's file, for example, has a gap from early November to the end of December, 1963. So where are the rest of the transcripts? The FBI still holds back a lot and they've also destroyed a lot of files (plus a large storage facility was flooded and many files were unintentially destroyed).

So we have to separate the real claims from the frauds if we want to get to the truth. Ragano is one we can dismiss, same with James Files, who is a proven liar. That's not even his real name. Even if we can get to the truth, and let's say the Outfit and Marcello really did it, I don't think we're ever going to find proof. It's all hearsay. No Mob guy ever testified under oath that they did it, there may not be any bug or wiretap recordings confirming involvement, it's just one person telling another that these guys did it. Even then, can we prove that Richard Cain or some other mobster actually fired a shot that hit JFK? Maybe they went to the grassy knoll and just watched while Oswald did all the shooting. Maybe one of them fired a shot but missed.

We have to remember that Kennedy's route was only decided on November 18 and made public a day or two after that, so if mobsters were there they only had a day or two to decide where to plant themselves on a very high profile case. On top of that they would have had to sneak rifles to an outside area where they could have been seen by others. These out of town guys from Chicago would have had to canvass the area to find the right location, then they would have to arrange to sneak away with their weapons while the police, FBI and Secret Service would immediately start looking for the shooter or shooters. When you consider all that it creates some serious doubts that it would have been possible for Mob guys to have actually done anything.