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MUMBAI:
Discovery will air specials on the assassination of US president
John F Kennedy.
The
US broadcaster said it has new information and never before
heard details of a startling confession, raising new questions
on just who was behind the 1963 assassination of Kennedy and
the subsequent killing of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby.
The
broadcaster will air the theories and findings in two specials - Did The Mob
Kill JFK? and JFK: The Ruby Connection on 22 November.
"I
had the little bastard killed. He was a thorn in my shoe". According to a
secret FBI informant these were the words of his cellmate, Carlos Marcello, the
notorious New Orleans mafia boss (one of America's most powerful mafia godfathers)
confessing to his role in orchestrating the Kennedy assassination and featured
in Did The Mob Kill JFK?
Almost
half a century after the assassination, the informant has
come forward to provide an exclusive interview that may solve
one of the nation's most enduring mysteries and re-write history.
With
an exclusive interview with the informant, this special tracks
the nexus of organised crime, the Justice Department, the
CIA and attempts to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro culminating
in that fateful day in Dallas. Marcello, who controlled mob
operations in Louisiana and Texas, had long been suspected
in having a hand in the Kennedy assassination.
Did
The Mob Kill JFK? links Marcello with both Oswald and Ruby, as the godfather
reveals in his confession that he brought Lee Harvey Oswald into the plot, telling
the informant that "He was my man. He did what the hell I told him to do."
Marcello also admits that Dallas strip club owner Jack Ruby was deeply in debt
and "owed him big." What
was the real Ruby/Oswald connection? With precision and a meticulous level of
detail, the producers of JFK: The Ruby Connection sets out to answer this
by recreating and restaging the 24 November shooting of Oswald.
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