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SCHEIM argues that in the first two years of his administration, Kennedy roused the ire of the Mob for authorizing his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to crack down harshly on organized crime. In addition, the Mafia was enraged at the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, which left Fidel Castro free to shut down Mob-run businesses in Cuba. Ordinarily, Scheim writes, the Mafia would not dare put out a contract on a president, but Kennedy had "slept with" the Mob, using his Mafia connections to meet Judith Campbell, who engaged in affairs simultaneously with the president...
Citing government committee testimony, Scheim argues that Carlos Marcello, head of a famous Mafia family based in New Orleans, decided to have the president murdered. In keeping with a strategy the Mafia occasionally used, Scheim suggests, Marcello chose a hitman not easily identifiable as a Mob associate...
Scheim's critical examination of Ruby's testimony before the Warren Commission accounts for some of his book's most remarkable passages. Ruby hinted broadly that he was part of the Mob, that members of the Dallas Police Department co-operated in his murder of Oswald, and that as he was testifying, his life was in grave danger. It is a hair-raising experience to read through Ruby's continued pleading that the hearings be moved to Washington, where he might speak with somewhat less fear of being murdered on the spot...
...hardly say they didn't get their money's worth. Police Detective Harry Hooperman talked a couple of potential suicides down from building ledges, negotiated a clutch of hostage crises and got his on-again, off-again girlfriend (and downstairs neighbor) pregnant. Over at L.A. Law, a mob boss was gunned down across a restaurant table from Attorney Grace Van Owen; Michael Kuzak, a partner in the firm of McKenzie, Brackman, watched a client get shot to death outside the courtroom after being acquitted of murder; and Senior Partner Douglas Brackman had surprise reunions with no fewer than two long...
...velocity and direction. At about 11 a.m., just 30 ft. off the beach at Santorini, a strong head wind buffeted Kanellopoulos as he tried to land. First the tail broke off and then the wing. Next thing the pilot-athlete knew, he was swimming toward shore, where an enthusiastic mob surged forward to greet him. Champagne corks popped. Kanellopoulos good-naturedly signed autographs on the broken bits and pieces of Daedalus' wing. And the crowd had a new Greek hero to celebrate...