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We still believe in the lone-assassin theory (Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone) since reading Gerald Posner's excellent analysis of the assassination, Case Closed . But we don't claim to have the monopoly on wisdom, especially when guys like G. Robert Blakey believe exactly the opposite. Blakey famously said: "Jack Ruby all by himself is substantial enough reason to believe in the Mafia's involvement [in the assassination of JFK]... The Mafia profited by JFK's death. What's worse is, they got away with it."

COSA NOSTRA NEWS EXCLUSIVE "If left alone for any length of time, the mob will make a comeback. It is a sickness of capitalism. Free markets and black markets breed it." --G. Robert Blakey We recently conducted an interview via email with G. "George" Robert Blakey, who drafted the RICO act (PDF), which President Richard Nixon signed into law on October 15, 1970. Blakey believes the JFK assassination was the result of a conspiracy that included the American Mafia. Tne  John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations were of great interest to Blakey, who served as chief counsel and staff director to the House Select Committee on Assassinations from 1977 to 1979. In this role he investigated the assassinations, leveraging new developments in forensic science to reexamine evidence. Blakey is also the co-author of The Plot to Kill the President (with Richard Billings) in which the two state their belief that JFK was murdered as part of a conspiracy th...