Mafia killed JFK theory

The Mafia-killed-JFK theory rests on Attorney General Robert F Kennedy's aggressive prosecution of organized crime, particularly Louisiana boss Carlos Marcello (whom RFK had personally deported in 1961) and Florida boss Santo Trafficante. Marcello reportedly said in 1962 'take the stone out of my shoe', meaning kill the President to neutralize the Attorney General.

Jack Ruby, who killed Oswald in the Dallas police basement two days after the assassination, had documented connections to organized crime including Trafficante, and made repeated phone calls to mob-connected figures in the weeks before November 22.

The 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded individual mob figures, particularly Marcello, Trafficante, and Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, had motive and capacity, while finding the organizations as such did not formally sanction the killing.

--- _Seeded into conspiracyg knowledge graph from curated figure-anchored list. Showing the connection, not the verdict._