If the Mafia was sufficiently angry with the Kennedys for their crusade against organized crime, the logical move would be to kill Robert Kennedy. But Carlos Marcello remarked that the best way to kill the dog was to cut off the head. In fact, after his brother's death, Robert Kennedy thought the mob may have had a hand in it. The Justice Department scaled back their assault against organized crime, though only temporarily. But if the mob wanted to kill the president, how would they have done it?

Bosses like Santo Trafficante Jr. had ties to the intelligence community. The Dallas Mafia was tight with the local police force. Carlos Marcello had a lot of political pull. So the matter of a coverup could be accomplished. Also, Trafficante and Roselli's connections to the anti-Castro Cuban operations gave them access to top-shelf hit men. It would be easy to send them to a mob-friendly town like Dallas.

And what better way to cover their tracks than to set up a patsy whose uncle worked for the Marcellos in New Orleans. This patsy would then be killed by a Chicago mob associate with ties to the local police, giving him access to the parking garage where Oswald was killed. We may never know the truth, but the circumstantial evidence is scintillating.