Stefano Vaccara - Carlos Marcello: The Man Behind the JFK Assassination

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Stefano Vaccara

Carlos Marcello

The Man Behind the JFK Assassination

Like getting a pebble out of your shoe.

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Published by Enigma Books

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Copyright 2013 by Stefano Vaccara

Translated from the Italian by Robert L. Miller

Original title: Carlos Marcello. Il boss che odiava i Kennedy

First English Edition

eISBN 978-1-936274-69-7

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Vaccara, Stefano.

[Carlos Marcello. English]

Carlos Marcello: the man behind the JFK assassination / Stefano Vaccara; translated from the Italian by Robert L. Miller. -- 1st English ed.

p.: ill.; cm.

Translation of: Carlos Marcello : il boss che odiava i Kennedy.

Like getting a pebble out of your shoe.

Issued also as an ebook.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Marcello, Carlos. 2. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 19171963--Assassination. 3. Mafiosi--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography. 4. Mafia--History. 5. Kennedy, Robert F., 19251968. I. Miller, Robert L. (Robert Lawrence), 1945 II. Title. III. Title: Carlos Marcello.

HV6248.M2964 V3313 2013

364.152/4/092

Contents

For Enza and Luigi

and the generation that lost the dream of the New Frontier at the hands of the Mafia

Carlos Marcello

The Man Behind the JFK Assassination

1963 , that year of violent change, still haunts the American psyche half a century later. The event that changed the countrys courseand poisoned the public mindwas the assassination of the president of the United States. Many historians and commentators have speculated about the consequences of that violent act and how America and indeed the world might have been different had John F. Kennedy lived. Unfortunately might have is not history and cannot alter stark reality. Since this book is about the search for the truth, the description of the real world rather than fantasy, the brutal events that took place in Dallas, must be kept in their proper perspective.