Marcello was doubly elated because John Kennedy was dead and he was acquitted. Marcello hated Kennedy and made no bones about it. Professor Michael Kurtz
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. David Kaiser, author The Road to Dallas
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. Did the Mob Kill JFK? 2010
Marcello gets his close associate and pilot David Ferry to smuggle him back into the US. ibid.
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. ibid.
What you do, you cut offa the head, the tail dies. Carlos Marcello
Three can keep a secret if two are dead. Carlos Marcello’s office sign
That Kennedy, that smiling, we’ll fix him in Dallas. We’re gonna get him in Dallas. Carlos Marcello, attributed
Some day I’m gonna get rid of that guy. Robert Kennedy, re Carlos Marcello, to associates on investigatory committee
Robert Kennedy viewed Carlos Marcello as one of the major figures in organised crime. G Robert Blakey, former chief counsel House Committee on Assassinations
I said, Jesus, you kill Bobby Kennedy, you’ll have the whole United States government on you. Ed Becker, Marcello Associate
New Orleans: it’s also a city of hustlers and dealers full of gangstas and illegal drugs. Drugs Inc s3e5: Hurricane Blow, National Geographic 2012
A new wave of small independent dealers returned. ibid.
Houston is a key distribution centre for drugs coming from Mexico into the US. ibid.
What’s unique since Katrina is the quantity of heroin now coming into the city ... Dealers make home deliveries. ibid.
Whammy is fake crack cocaine. ibid.
The most unlikely people for dealing – grandmothers. ibid.
Aaron and his team arrested 40 drug dealers that day. ibid.
New Orleans, Louisiana: Mardi Gras ... Police are clamping down around the city. But two dealers are going head to head: one selling real drugs, one selling fake. Drugs Inc s6e10: Mardi Gras
Marcello’s nemesis Robert Kennedy wanted him out of the country … but Marcello had a juror in his pocket. Mobsters s1e22: Carlos Marcello, Bio 2008
The cash coming in from the slot machines wasn’t enough for Marcello so he continued his drug trade. ibid.
There was an unprecedented surveillance effort targeting Marcello’s home and his headquarters at the Town and Country Motel. ibid.
Anastasia got away with the murder [Arnold Schuster] just as he had for decades. Mobsters s3e3: Albert Anastasia, Bio 2010
[Joe] Masseria was alone: enter Albert Anastasia and three others. ibid.
Anastasia’s muscle would also be valuable to a group of Mafia leaders called the Commission … Murder Incorporated. ibid.
Anastasia had risen through the Mob ranks. ibid.
The tax trial of Albert Anastasia … Anastasia walked out of prison and right into a power grab. ibid.
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. Mobsters: This Time It’s Personal
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. Mobsters: Legacy of an Assassination
The murder capital of America and the rule here is kill or be killed. Gangland s3e10: Die, Snitch, Die: Gotti Boys, History 2008
America’s murder capital. New Orleans’ gangs are more ruthless than Los Angeles’ most violent. ibid.
The City’s underworld is run by the Gotti Boys. ibid.
They’re identified only by their turf. ibid.
These projects are marked by trainers that hang from the power lines. ibid.
A belief that not even the law is honest. ibid.
The projects, completed in the 1960s, were meant to support working class families, but soon became run down. ibid.
29th August 2005: Hurricane Katrina took aim at the Big Easy. It would change everything even for the Gotti Boys. ibid.
The Gotti Boys came back stronger than before. ibid.
Mardi Gras season: two weeks of parades, street parties and masked balls ... It also attracts a variety of scams. Scam City s2e1: New Orleans, National Geographic 2012
Could the razzle-dazzle be more than a board game? ibid.
While the cops clear up the mess, the party just carries on. ibid.
Hurricane Katrina: ‘Where are the witnesses?’ Gangsters: America’s Most Evil: The Cutt Boyz, Bio 2013
Washington had become a crack addict; he became a heroin kingpin. ibid.
The Cutt Boyz sold heroin in an age of crack. ibid.
Early Monday morning I was talking to a TBM [True Believing Mormon] business associate about the hurricane that was hitting the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. I was shocked when he started to joke about it and say that, ‘Well, I guess God is going to baptize New Orleans whether they want it or not.’ He also said ‘it was about time God cleaned out that pit of sin.’
I was shocked; this was right when we were not sure if we were going to loose thousands of lives. Now we know that New Orleans missed a direct hit and instead hit Mississippi. I guess God has a hook in his aim and he needs to work on it.
How can someone think this way? Battle-Ax, RFM board post 30th August 2005 ‘A Mormon’s View on Katrina’