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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 06:38 PM
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NORM: JFK book includes Vegas connections (T Hartmann)
A new book on the assassination of President Kennedy points to a Mafia revenge hit and sheds light on the Las Vegas connections. In "Ultimate Sacrifice," published by Carroll & Graf, co-authors Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann contend their "groundbreaking" research links the assassination 42 years ago today to three mob chieftains, including Johnny Rosselli, the Chicago Mafia's point man in Las Vegas.

At the time, JFK's brother, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, was "pressuring and prosecuting" Rosselli and his boss, Sam Giancana, head of the Chicago mob.

With Fidel Castro's 1959 takeover of Cuba, including the mob's Havana casinos, the Mafia-controlled Las Vegas skimming operation was more important than ever. Robert Kennedy was preparing a major assault in Las Vegas to deny the mobsters the cash revenue stream.

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Nov-22-Tue-2005/news/4424790.html
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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 06:52 PM
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1. Shameless kick for our Thom Hartmann, one of the authors!!!
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davidwparker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 07:40 PM
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2. I heard the two of them talking about this on Hartmann's AAR Sunday
broadcast. Interesting.
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