Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Saturday, 21 Nov 1992 01:37:54 CST
From: <U54778@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Re: "Frontline" re JFK

Part of the story that didn't make Frontline is that JFK was hobnobbling
with Sinatra and friends when he was a Senator and Prez.  There are plenty
of stories of JFK being supplied "girlfriends" through Sinatra.  Judith
Exner was one of them.  These stories usually are told along with other
details of how Sinatra and friends kept asking JFK to put the "kabosh"
(avid Seinfeld fan here) on RFK; stop pressing hard on Hoffa, Marcello and
Giancana.  Supposedly JFK wouldn't cave in.  Add to this the rumored story
of the Mafia influence in the South and in Chicago which put JFK over the
top in the election with a slim 6 figure lead.  When Hoover who was bugging
these same Mafia groups approached the K brothers, they dropped Sinatra and
co. like a rock.  Consider: Sinatra had much to do with JFK inaugoral(sp?)
celebration.
   Davis, Moldea, and other researchers dug up memos using FOIA which show
that Hoover's bugging was picking up all the Mafia complaining which also
reveals talk on Marylin Monroe, Exner and a lot of gripping about RFK.  At
each new juncture, Hoover confronted the K brothers with these items.
  Your question of why did the K brothers go after the mob when they got into
power has never been answered by anyone.  It has always been assumed that
J/RFK never liked the Mafia aspect of our society (perhaps even more,
considering that their father worked with them in earlier years).  If you
take J/RFK's attitude to civil rights of negros(the correct term back then)
one could pose that they felt unshackled by the older conventions before
their ascendancy.  Perhaps they felt like young turks with no need to heed
the previous tolerance of prejudice against blacks and a lackadaisical
attitude to mob crime that epitomizes Hoover's stance.  In this sense,
they were bringing a long ignored change to how the game should be played
to Wash. and the rest of the country.  There is no dearth of historical
instances of politicians, once elected, turning on those who supported
them in their campaigns.  It appears that J/RFK decided to hell with
previous support, they were going to be remembered for going after
organized crime.  I applaud them but take note that this also shows a
recklessness of action which one can see in their bedroom escapades.
If the Mafia was the initiators of the killing, then they paid for this
reckless attitude in spades.  Anyone delving into the depression of RFK
afteer the assassination, can't come away from this without suspecting
that this was on his mind at the time.
  My early references to Hoover is again promoting the theory that if the
Mafia did it, Hoover knew about it as it was being planned.  Hoover knew
all of what was going on in those circles.  There are memos specifically
showing Mafia figures gripping about the "schutcking" JFK was giving
Marylin.  It is all there in the FOIA released memos, all except any
planning for a hit.  Are those memos still being kept hidden?
  Lastly, I want to point out that every five or so years, someone comes
out and gives some sensational story about connections to the Mafia, CIA,
anti-Castro cubans, Castro agents or the KGB.  This is just another in a
long line.  We need more than just another sensational story.
ALAN ROGERS
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