Word: giancana
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...First the Zapruder film comes to the local video store, and now this: The National Archives and Records Administration will make public additional materials on the assassination of President Kennedy, including FBI files on Sam Giancana and the CIA file on Lee Harvey Oswald...
...temperament of a tempestuous loner who traveled with a squadron of pals and protectors, who swung on and spat on the ladies and gents of the press and who declined to forswear certain companions--Vegas oddsmakers and knee breakers, sharply tailored gentlemen in New York and Chicago like Sam Giancana, with no discernible day jobs--in whom the law retained an inveterate interest...
...start and for a long time, an out-front liberal, and--surely swayed by charm and power--eventually added some deep shadows to J.F.K.'s definition of executive privilege. He passed along a mistress to the President, Judith Exner, who was also a favorite of Giancana's. Kennedy used her, but eventually froze Sinatra out of Camelot. Sinatra responded bitterly and swung right. He golfed with Spiro Agnew, sang (wonderfully) at the Nixon White House and partied with the Reagans...
...runs into the same kind of problems. Kennedy loyalists argue that J.F.K. was no more than an interested bystander in the CIA campaign to murder Castro. But during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Hersh writes, Kennedy was in fact expecting that Castro would be quickly assassinated by Giancana's men. His fateful decision to abandon the whole thing was the abrupt consequence of his getting the news that the Cuban leader was still alive...
...article in the quarterly Diplomatic History. Was Kennedy one of the planners who were in on the murder plot? Perhaps, but to be sure of that, it helps to be persuaded by Hersh's attempts earlier in the book to prove that Kennedy "must have" been in communication with Giancana--or at least that he was briefed before the 1960 election by Bissell or CIA Director Allen Dulles about the covert operations in Cuba approved by Dwight Eisenhower. Like Richard Nixon, Hersh believes Kennedy must have been, but Dark Side never proves...