And he asked Russ Knight who Earl Warren was. He headed the Trafficante crime family from 1954 to 1987 and controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba, which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father, Santo Trafficante Sr. Certainly looks like Ruby was stalking Oswald than him acting spontaneously or in desperation. What you have quoted btw rings with the film clip of Ruby stating in effect that the assassination involved those at the very top. Apparently no one answered as he never spoke. Salvatore "Sam" Cacciatore (1916-1981) was a member of the Trafficante Crime Family. Smart move on Trafficantes part. He headed the Trafficante crime family from 1954 to 1987 and controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba, which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father, Santo Trafficante Sr. Trafficante maintained links to the Bonanno crime family in New York City, but was more closely allied with Sam Giancana in Chicago. I almost jumped from my theatre seat. She lived an exciting life dividing her time between her multiple family members and friends in. The nephew of former boss Ignazio Italiano, he later fled to Mexico. In 1992, LoScalzo was arrested at the Tampa International Airport for carrying a loaded .38-caliber pistol in his brief case. [10], In 1976, Cuban exile and FBI informant Jose Aleman told The Washington Post that in September 1962, Trafficante had offered him a loan of $1.5million to replace Aleman's three-story "ramshackle motel with a 12-story glass wonder. Bush called it a most interesting read. The book tells an amazing American story. I have read allegations that Joe Campisi did have dinner with him that Thursday night before the assassination, but this may stem from the testimony that Ruby simply ate there that night. I think he had too much help available in the DPD, and perhaps wanted to be equipted when the opportunity arrived. There are still some male Trafficante nephews and grandchildren in Tampa, and though a few have had some scrapes with the law though none are active in the remnants of the crime family as far as I know. Not that far off topic. [3] In 1943, Antinori's two sons Paul and Joseph were convicted in Kansas City for drug dealing and sentenced to four years in prison finally ending the decade long war. My feeling. ST. Petersburg Times. Federal investigators brought racketeering and conspiracy charges against him in the summer of 1986. Trafficante, had lived in Tampa since the age of 18, and had already set up Bolita games throughout the city and was becoming powerful mobster. Thank you very much. Santo Trafficante Jr.: The Florida Godfather Who Tried To Kill Castro Phase 12:Conspiracy to Deceive (Secret Service, FBI, CIA, ONI, DPD, and Military); Phase 13: Suppression of Records Campaign(officially ongoing); Phase 13.5: Vilification and Character Assassination of JFK researchers opposed to official whitewash. His actions would fit with that. I still think Ruby was hunting/stalking O, looking for a kill shot. There was no anxiety to his testimony. Diaz was a confirmed hit man connected to Santo Trafficante, long a suspect in the JFK plot. PDF The Echo From Dealey Plaza The True Story Of The First African American My point was that if Ruby had been planning on killing Oswald, it would seem foolish to blurt out some correction at a press conference and cameras rolling, etc. He wanted others to do it. He sprints out about 12-15 feet, leaving the space for Ruby to frontally assault Oswald. Santo Trafficante Jr. (November 15, 1914 March 17, 1987) was among the most powerful Mafia bosses in the United States. A car registered to former state attorney and current state appellate judge E.J. Maybe certain mobsters and certain cops leaned on him. Inasmuch as Wades primary job at that time was Oswald and the assassination, Id have expected him to be up on things like that. Garcia Bango stayed in Madrid. His son, Santo Trafficante Jr., took over the crime family and became tangled in a web of conspiracies to kill the leader of revolutionary Cuba and, it is rumored, President John F. Kennedy. I dont think Olsen talked him into anything. The Friday night discussions with Olsen could have been of any way to get out of it, or, how to do it. Why has so little known information about LHO been submitted to designated investigations ? CIA Files: 104-10133-10013. WC did not press Olsen for the real reason. Mafialand is a revelatory and dramatic true-life thriller spanning much of the twentieth century, a page-turning chronicle of an elaborate Mafia plan to 'invade' Europe using 1960s London as a bridgehead.The capital city of the Swinging Sixties was also a world of gambling, guns and gangsters. If not premeditated, perhaps Tippit was to unwittingly have a confrontation with the prime suspect on the chance that he would shoot him as he fled. But by the mid-1960s, Sam Giancana's fate would take a distinct downturn. Who that order came from, Trafficante, Marcello, Giancanna, or through, is questionable. New York: Barricade Books. 2008, Deitche, Scott. Jack Ruby, Santos Trafficante, Carlos Marcello, David Ferrie, Sergio Aracha Smith, Osantos, Rose Cheramie, Barney Ross.Heroin, Houston and Havana. Of particular interest is the killers haircut: block cut in the back. Even if they had been neighbors. [1] Author Scott Deitche reported that Santo Jr. was involved with the CIA to plot assassination attempts on Fidel Castro. Ruby killing Oswald was the ur-event of the assassination to spur suspicion, the instant in which many Americans were to first instinctively suspect there was simply more to it than just Oswald. First of all, Shimon appeared under a fake name in Tony Summers 1978 documentary, Dr. We caught up with Scott -- who wrote The Cigar City Mafia, an excellent book on Tampa gangsters, in. The charges were later dropped and then reinstated. \\][//, Santos Trafficante, latter 1962 just after LBJs Miami address. But, hey, it doesnt mean much if the guy was just the unfortunate idiot in the position he was in. We may never really know, but indications are he was lured to 404 E. 10th, and certainly didnt expect to face a bullet. He dropped out of high school before the 10th grade. I dont have any basis for gauging her credibility as of yet, but I think her statements are worth exploring. JFK was first and foremost a gentleman, but that doesnt mean his tribute to Dulles meant he trusted him. What we do know, however, is that Joe Campisi visisted Ruby in jail after his arrest. Santo Trafficante Jr Santo Trafficante Jr. (November 15, 1914 - March 17, 1987) was among the most powerful Mafia bosses in the United States. Do it and they will get you out. I am going to dig into this further. In this manner, one can digest that certain events were part and parcel of the whole, yet each player was not informed of the other players parts. It involves a bevy of characters including James Jesus Angleton!!! This is not a unique argument but, just suppose that Ruby was looking for an excuse to blame the authorities in charge of Oswald for his missing him. The Mafia's President: Nixon and the Mob - The History Reader QUIT worrying about hand guns kicking and all of that Jazz! Sounds like someone whos been briefed with an eye towards getting a particular spin on a story. No, I cant believe that Tippit getting shot was any part of the conspiracy. El fundador de la estirpe, Santo Trafficante Sr. (1886-1954) -un emigrante siciliano radicado en Tampa a principios del siglo XX-, se entrelaz con Lucky Luciano y Meyer Lansky para sacarle buen partido a la Prohibicin e introducir alcoholes de contrabando en los numerosos clubes clandestinos ( speakeasies) de Ybor City y otros puntos de la Local & National Interviews FOR CIVELLO IN PARDON HEARINGS. Santo Jr had two daughters who are still alive. His successor, Ignazio Antinori, soon found himself in a war . Trafficante crime family - Wikipedia In the 1940s he joined up with Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, and Meyer Lansky to set up gambling operations in Cuba. 1950. I couldnt help to think about poor Oswald when I saw this. "Sam" was a supervisor of the Bolita rackets of the Trafficante operation. Ruby apparently lived nearby. Meyer Lansky, who led the U.S. mob's exploitation of Cuba in the 1950s, set up a famous meeting . Rather than look at specific organizations as suspect, look at specific key players in the JFK assassination. But that cant substitute for the actual historical sources. Thanks for the reply. Trafficante was arrested frequently throughout the 1950s on various charges of bribery and of running illegal bolita lotteries in Tampa's Ybor City district. Remember: Tippits murder is the Rosetta Stone of the assassination. And then helped him get into the basement where he killed Oswald. committee. "[11] He said that Trafficante complained about the honesty of the Kennedys and their "attacks" on Jimmy Hoffa and other associates. del Valle, an anti-castro activist, was murdered within 24 hours of David Ferrie's suicide (some think murder) in February 1967. . Santo Trafficante Jr News reports - YouTube I dont buy your rhetorical nonsense for a moment. "I TAKE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT!" - Tampa Mafia He said that everyone he talked to said that they had no doubt that Oswald was killed to keep him from talking. Ive read about the Rosetta Stone, Peter Janneys book is pretty awful, but it includes some interesting interview material with Toni Shimon, Joes daughter. Could Rubys orders have come from closer to home than most suspect? No Jonathan, it does not necessarily follow that the mob had a hand in the murder of JFK simply because McWillie or Civello made a call to Ruby. It also had great value as a moneymaking proposition by itself. During the rule of Cuba's authoritarian dictator Fulgencio Batista, Trafficante openly operated the Sans Souci Cabaret and the Casino International gambling establishments in Havana. [6] Trafficante Jr. had known Lucchese since the 1940s, when his father and Lucchese had trained him in the mafia traditions. But Griffin was right on this. [4] All were fined, up to $10,000 each, and given prison sentences ranging from three to five years. Sin embargo, Santo Traficante Jr. mostraba una seguridad y un aplomo dignos de mejor causa: Cuando le mencion a Fidel Castro y su insurreccin, Santo adopt un tono burln. Apparently White, while he was a district director for the FBN in Chicago in 1945 recruited Ruby as his informant. Santo Trafficante Sr. (May 28, 1886 - August 11, 1954) was a Sicilian -born mobster, and father of the powerful mobster Santo Trafficante Jr. Santo Trafficante Sr. gained power as a mobster in Tampa, Florida and ruled the Mafia in Tampa from the 1930s until his death in 1954. After years of reading, after work, as Im not a researcher Santo Jose Trafficante, nephew of Santo Jr. and named as a made member of the crime family in 1990, died yesterday in Tampa. Three women perched on the bar at the Cabaret Kursal nightclub in Havana. Santos Trafficante - It Should Have Been Bobby http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Sylvia%20Meagher%20Clips/Sylvia%20Meagher%20Images/SM-015.pdf. New York: Barricade Books. Leaving aside Andersons motivations, which are quite dubious in and of themselves, Joe Shimons name usually brings in the distinct odor of rat in its wake. Ruby told the Warren Commission he had only visited Havana once on vacation, but Cuban immigration records told a different story. Anybody that was attentive to the media would have known that. Wasnt Jack Ruby (of Chicago), the same guy mentioned in a letter or memo as assisting Richard Nixon way back? He was supposedly bereft over the tragedy of the whole thing but his overall demeanor didnt reflect that early on. Published June 13, 2014 TAMPA The daughter sits on the front porch of a little bungalow in Seminole Heights, her new home since her husband died a few months ago down south. Tourists and Cubans gamble at the casino in the Hotel Nacional in Havana, 1957. [12] Trafficante also stated that he had no recollection of meeting Oswald or Oswald's assassin, Jack Ruby. April 17, 2008 - PRLog -- On a Monday afternoon November 14, 1977 at 2:15 PM an . By the early 1930s, Santo Sr. was considered one of the top Mafia powers in Tampa. Without that separation, Ruby could not have killed Oswald, at least not there. In 1950, Senator Kefauver began an investigation organized crime and held hearings, during the hearings Tampa mobster Charlie Wall, was called in to testify, to avoid testifying both Trafficante Sr. and his son fled to Cuba. Let me suggest a reason for the coreection: it was to solidify in the viewing publics mind that Oswald was pro-Castro. Understand the workings of the Tippit killing, and you will understand the assassination of JFK. Why did JR deny in questioning at the Warren Commission, that he was at the Dallas Police Department press conference that friday night ? He was standing right across the street from the ramp and Vaughn. Was it just coincidence that a successful coup was carried out in Texas, the home state of vice-president LBJ, who subsequently became the most powerful man on earth upon JFKS demise? The violent crimes thing is wrong. And there is no doubt Ruby was lying in wait. The critics translation isnt great but heres one link above. As an aside consider this from Betrayal in Dallas (dissed in a CTKA review): Glossary of Names, Joseph E. CivelloArrested for murdershotgunDeCarlos stomachaccidental. From the very generalised way that Olsen answered questions, it appeared quite clear he had no intention of devulging much in the way of conversations he had with Ruby on the days leading up to Rubys assassination of Oswald. Nine years later Johnnie Franks son, Frank Griffin, saw Lee Harvey Oswald fleeing down a Dallas street. As far as the media, I believe Operation Mockingbird is still singing. The call was from the Top Ten Record shop which is still there and open. But if Id been a cop standing near there, theyd have gotton stopped and IDd, at a minimum. Tippits Dad was told he was hunting O. Ive even read your excellent Destiny Betrayed. About Mather, did not wish to appear dense, just thought you might have a different take. In any event, it seems odd that hed have been the one to correct wade. Josephine Marchese Trafficante Born Tampa, Florida March 24, 1920 Departed this Life May 13, 2015 Josephine Marchese Trafficante, 95, died peacefully in her sleep, Wednesday morning at her home. Why did JR deny ever having met LHO ? The Trafficante connection with New York was . Sound familiar? How did they persuade the media moguls at the time, i.e., Henry Luce, Norman Chandler, the Dealey family among so many others across the nation, to not only stand down in their own investigations but further, to support the Warren Commission results and how, long after the deaths of those mob members could their gangs and family members have enforced their code of silence at such a high level? It involves a magic bullet and the usual CIA suspects including JJA. Doesnt seem too subtle. As one of the most powerful mobsters in the US, Trafficante was invited to the Havana Conference in December 1946. Why are they all lying? [13] When this was pointed out, Aleman denied that he meant that he believed Kennedy was going to murdered and said he thought that Trafficante meant that Kennedy was going to be "hit" politically during the next election. Good synopsis. As to why Ruby killed Oswald, I believe it was a segment on The Lost Assassination Tapes (I think thats the correct name) thats been aired a number of times, where a TV journalist who was at DPD HQ when Oswald was killed had been talking to as many cops as he could.