Carlos Marcello

The Kennedy administration, driven by the president's brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had launched the most aggressive war on the mafia the country had ever seen.

Powerful mob bosses, men like Carlos Marcello of New Orleans, Santo Traficante of Florida, and Sam Giancana of Chicago had every reason to hate the Kennedys.

There was even a sense of betrayal because certain mob circles felt like they'd helped Kennedy win in 1960 only to get hunted by his brother.

And here's the detail that makes people's eyebrows shoot up.

The Kennedy administration, driven by the president's brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had launched the most aggressive war on the mafia the country had ever seen.

Powerful mob bosses, men like Carlos Marcello of New Orleans, Santo Trafficante of Florida, and Sam Giancana of Chicago had every reason to hate the Kennedys.

There was even a sense of betrayal because certain mob circles felt like they'd helped Kennedy win in 1960 only to get hunted by his brother.

And here's the detail that makes people's eyebrows shoot up.

The Kennedy administration, driven by the president's brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had launched the most aggressive war on the mafia the country had ever seen.

Powerful mob bosses, men like Carlos Marcello of New Orleans, Santo Traficante of Florida, and Sam Giancana of Chicago had every reason to hate the Kennedys.

There was even a sense of betrayal because certain mob circles felt like they'd helped Kennedy win in 1960 only to get hunted by his brother.

And here's the detail that makes people's eyebrows shoot up.

Yeah, that's right.

Carlos Marcello kind of became the head honcho, um, in New Orleans' organized crime.

Uh, he was born to a Sicilian family in Tunisia.

Uh, his name was Carlo Guerrero Minacori.

But right away after they got in office, JFK appointed Bobby Kennedy attorney general, and he hated those mobsters, went ahead and deported Carlos Marcelo.

to um to guatemala where he almost died and all of that and and what's interesting about this is that uh what i wrote in that book a lot of people challenged in everything but in the jfk assassination records that were released earlier this year uh there was no question about what happened because there's a confession in there actually william by uh by carlos marcello He had gotten in trouble in Louisiana.

He was sentenced to a prison term in Texas, and they decided to put a snitch in with him.

And this particular guy, and it's chronicled now who he was and everything, in the prison yard, he had a recorder of some sort.

She didn't stay in Dallas and look at Lyndon Johnson.

She didn't go anywhere and look at the Cubans.

She went to New Orleans where Carlos Marcello was.

She did a lot of work on what could prove that he was the one who orchestrated JFK's death and all of that.

Batista was, you know, in tight with the mob.

W- you know, one of his best friends was, was Carlos Marcello.

Um, uh-

Yeah

... you know, th- this guy, this guy was...

The casinos in Cuba were run by American mobsters.

It's one of the reasons why Santo Trafficante and Carlos Marcello were so pissed at the Kennedys, although it wasn't, you know, the Kennedys who'd overthrown it.

It was obviously Castro, but-

They just kind of figured him out.

But as a child, he had worked for Carlos Marcello, who was the guy who'd dragged him into this whole thing.

But anyway, it says here you called about Kimberly Guilfoyle.

That's right.

She got a private jailhouse interview with Ruby that no other reporter in the country could get and obtained Ruby's secret Warren Commission testimony and published it in her paper before the government released it.

She traced Ruby's connections to organized crime, specifically to Carlos Marcello, the boss of the New Orleans Mafia.

And she told friends, colleagues, and at least one fellow journalist that she was about to blow the Kennedy assassination case wide open.

Then she turned up dead in the wrong bedroom with a book she wasn't reading and a missing file.

She's got sources in Dallas, New York, New Orleans, Washington.

And she's making a trip to New Orleans to dig into the one name that keeps coming up at the center of everything.

Carlos Marcello.

So who was Carlos Marcello and why does the name keep showing up? Well, here's the short version.