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19,080. I knew I was innocent and I knew it would come out the way it did. (Gangstas: New Orleans & New Orleans & Innocence & Mafia: New Orleans) Carlos Marcello
19,081. What you do, you cut offa the head, the tail dies. (Gangstas: New Orleans & New Orleans & Mafia: New Orleans) Carlos Marcello
19,082. Three can keep a secret if two are dead. (Gangstas: New Orleans & New Orleans & Secret & Mafia: New Orleans) Carlos Marcello’s office sign
19,083. That Kennedy, that smiling, we’ll fix him in Dallas. We’re gonna get him in Dallas. (Gangstas: New Orleans & New Orleans & Mafia: New Orleans & Kennedy) Carlos Marcello
19,084. Some day I’m gonna get rid of that guy. (Gangstas: New Orleans & New Orleans & Mafia: New Orleans & Kennedy) Robert Kennedy, of Carlos Marcello, to associates on investigatory committee
19,085. Robert Kennedy viewed Carlos Marcello as one of the major figures in organised crime. (Gangstas: New Orleans & New Orleans & Mafia: New Orleans & Kennedy) G Robert Blakey, former chief counsel House Committee On Assassinations
19,086. I said, Jesus, you [Marcello] kill Bobby Kennedy, you’ll have the whole United States government on you. (Gangstas: New Orleans & New Orleans & Mafia: New Orleans & Kennedy) Ed Becker, Marcello Associate
111,245. ‘I knew I was innocent and I knew it would come out the way it did.’ (Gangstas & Mafia: New Orleans & Murder & New Orleans) Mobsters s1e22: Carlos Marcello, Bio 2008
111,246. Marcello’s nemesis Robert Kennedy wanted him out of the country … but Marcello had a juror in his pocket. (Gangstas & Mafia: New Orleans & Murder & New Orleans) ibid.
111,247. The cash coming in from the slot machines wasn’t enough for Marcello so he continued his drug trade. (Gangstas & Mafia: New Orleans & Murder & New Orleans) ibid.
111,248. There was an unprecedented surveillance effort targeting Marcello’s home and his headquarters at the Town and Country Motel. (Gangstas & Mafia: New Orleans & Murder & New Orleans) ibid.
111,249. Anastasia got away with the murder [Arnold Schuster] just as he had for decades. (Gangstas & Mafia: New Orleans & Murder & New Orleans) Mobsters s3e3: Albert Anastasia, Bio 2010
111,250. [Joe] Masseria was alone: enter Albert Anastasia and three others. (Gangstas & Mafia: New Orleans & Murder & New Orleans) ibid.
111,251. Anastasia’s muscle would also be valuable to a group of Mafia leaders called the Commission … Murder Incorporated. (Gangstas & Mafia: New Orleans & Murder & New Orleans) ibid.
111,252. Anastasia had risen through the Mob ranks. (Gangstas & Mafia: New Orleans & Murder & New Orleans) ibid.
111,253. The tax trial of Albert Anastasia … Anastasia walked out of prison and right into a power grab. (Gangstas & Mafia: New Orleans & Murder & New Orleans) ibid.
19,087. In 1963 while Marcello awaited trial for conspiracy in connection with his fake birth record, New Orleans teemed with questionable characters. Among them was an ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald. He had abruptly moved from Dallas, but he was no stranger to the Big Easy ... Although there’s no evidence Marcello and Oswald ever met, they did move in the same circles, and shared a common enemy. (Gangstas: New Orleans & New Orleans & Mafia: New Orleans & Kennedy) Mobsters: This Time it’s Personal
19,088. Just two days after Kennedy’s murder, police transferred Oswald to the County Jail. Swarms of reporters and photographers gathered to catch a glimpse of the suspected assassin. Suddenly, a man emerged from the crowd and fired a single bullet into Oswald’s abdomen. Oswald was announced dead two hours later. Police immediately arrested the murderer: he was Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, another man with alleged ties to mob boss Carlos Marcello. (Gangstas: New Orleans & New Orleans & Mafia: New Orleans & Kennedy) Mobsters: Legacy of an Assassination
19,089. When Oswald was arrested for Disturbing the Peace in New Orleans, he was sprung from jail by a man with close connections to the Marcello organisation. (Gangstas: New Orleans & New Orleans & Mafia: New Orleans & Kennedy) Professor Michael Kurtz, South-Eastern Louisiana University
19,090. Lee Harvey Oswald had life-long family ties to Carlos Marcello’s organisation. He had an uncle who had become a bookmaker in the Marcello organisation. (Gangstas: New Orleans & New Orleans & Mafia: New Orleans & Kennedy) David Kaiser, author The Road To Dallas
33,842. The bank robber [Jack van Laningham] would become an informant for the FBI and soon he heard the godfather [Marcello] make an astonishing confession. A confession that if true might finally solve America’s most infamous and enduring murder mystery. (Kennedy & Gangstas US: New Orleans & New Orleans & Mafia: New Orleans) Did the Mob Kill JFK? 2010
33,843. Marcello gets his close associate and pilot David Ferry to smuggle him back into the US. (Kennedy & Gangstas US: New Orleans & New Orleans & Mafia: New Orleans) ibid.
33,847. While America reels in shock, in the Tampa Hotel where the President has spoken just four years earlier godfather Santo Trafficante reportedly toasts JFK’s death. Lamar Waldron believes Santo Trafficante along with Johnny Roselli and Carlos Marcello have pulled off the Mob’s most daring hit ever. (Kennedy & Gangstas US: New Orleans & Florida & Mafia: New Orleans) ibid.
33,849. In 1986 FBI informant Jack Laningham said goodbye to his cell-mate Carlos Marcello. Van Laningham maintains it took three more years for the FBI to administer a polygraph in which he verified hearing Marcello confess to JFK’s murder. (Kennedy & Gangstas US: New Orleans & New Orleans & New Orleans & Mafia: New Orleans) ibid.