32. "Nuclear Test Ban Treaty," John F. Kennedy Library website,

http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty.aspx

[accessed May 19, 2011]; Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (Boston: First Mariner Books, 2002), 905. Interview with Sergei Khrushchev, November 2, 2011, Charlottesville, Virginia. Richard Holmes, a seasoned British diplomat who was stationed in Moscow between 1961 and 1962, believes that JFK might have been the victim of KGB vigilantes seeking revenge for the Cuban Missile Crisis. Holmes raises interesting questions that give pause: Why did three Soviet diplomats stationed in Mexico City spend their Saturday morning meeting with Oswald, a person who was supposedly uninteresting to them? And why did these diplomats send a classified telegram to Moscow immediately after the meeting? See Richard Holmes, A Spy Like No Other: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the KGB Links to the Kennedy Assassination (London: Biteback Publishing, 2012).

33. "Yeltsin Gives Clinton JFK File," Washington Post, June 20, 1999; Max Holland, "A Cold War Odyssey: The Oswald Files," Cold War International History Project Bulletin, issue 14/15, Washington Decoded,

http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/files/a_coldwar_odyssey.pdf

[accessed May 24, 2011]. On November 25, 1963, Soviet deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan gave the Kremlin a report on conversations he had with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other American officials about the assassination. Mikoyan wrote, "Judging from everything, the U.S. government does not want to involve us in this matter, but neither does it want to get into a fight with the extreme rightists; it clearly prefers to consign the whole business to oblivion as soon as possible." See "Documents Handed to President Clinton by Russian President Boris Yeltsin," Mary Ferrell Foundation website,

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=929&relPageId=72

[accessed August 5, 2011]. The Soviet high command also discovered a letter dated November 9, 1963, that Oswald had apparently sent to the Soviet embassy in Washington asking for information on "the arrival of our Soviet entrance visa's [sic] as soon as they come." The Soviets thought that the letter might be a forgery mailed by the true assassins who wanted to link Oswald to the USSR. See

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=929&relPageId=95

[accessed August 5, 2011].

34. One of the most intriguing books on the Mafia's ties to the Kennedy assassination is David Kaiser's The Road to Dallas (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008). Kaiser believes that Oswald had originally been hired to kill Castro, but targeted Kennedy after the Cuban embassy in Mexico City turned down his request for a travel visa. The Mafia despised both leaders.

35. Coppola, F. F. (director). (2010). The Godfather, Part II (Coppola Restoration) [Bluray] [motion picture]. United States: Paramount Home Entertainment.

36. Godfather III came out in 1990.

37. Evidently, some mobsters had disdain for Senator Edward Kennedy as well. Three weeks after RFK was assassinated, the FBI recorded a drunken threat made by Al Capone's son, who boasted that EMK might "get it too." See Helen Kennedy, "Al Capone's Son Threatened Hit on Sen. Ted Kennedy Weeks After Robert Kennedy's Assassination: FBI," New York Daily News, August 1, 2011,

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/08/01/2011-08-01_al_capones_son_threatened_hit_on_sen_ted_kennedy_weeks_after_robert_kennedys_ass.html

[accessed August 2, 2011].

38. It is not clear that Joe Kennedy ever actually engaged in bootlegging. As the author Daniel Okrent points out, "Three times during the 1930s, Kennedy was appointed to federal positions requiring Senate confirmation (chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, U.S. ambassador to Great Britain). At a time when the memory of Prohibition was vivid and the passions it inflamed still smoldered, no one seemed to think Joe Kennedy had been a bootlegger-not the Republicans, not the anti-Roosevelt Democrats, not remnant Klansmen or anti-Irish Boston Brahmins or cynical newsmen or resentful Dry leaders still seething from the humiliation of Repeal." Daniel Okrent, "The Biggest Kennedy Myth," Daily Beast, April 26, 2010,

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/04/26/the-kennedy-bootlegging-myth.html

[accessed July 27, 2010]. See also "Joe Kennedy Was No Angel But Neither Was He a Bootlegger," Irish Examiner, March 14, 2011.

39. This quotation comes from Sam and Chuck Giancana, Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2010), 308. Sam is the nephew of Sam "Momo" Giancana and the son of Sam's brother, Chuck Giancana.

40. Encouraged both by J. Edgar Hoover and RFK, President Kennedy began to put distance between himself and Sinatra on account of Sinatra's mob friendships. Having worked hard for Kennedy's election, Sinatra felt betrayed, and his fury was such that he even personally destroyed a helipad he had commissioned on his California property for the use of the presidential helicopter. Siobhan Synnot, "The Rat Pack, Booze, Broads and the Coolest Turkey in Film History," Sunday Mail, February 3, 2002.

41. See "Tina Sinatra: Mob Ties Aided JFK," 60 Minutes,

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/10/05/60minutes/main238980.shtml

[accessed May 24, 2011].

42. Giancana, Double Cross, 3089, 376, 38892; Michael L. Kurtz, The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006), 203; David Talbot, "The Man Who Solved the Kennedy Assassination," Salon.com, November 22, 2003,

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/22/conspiracy

[accessed May 25, 2011].

43. John Davis, Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (New York: Signet, 1989), 13945; "The Assassination: Did the Mob Kill J.F.K.?" Time, June 21, 2007,

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,956397,00.html

[accessed May 25, 2011]. Lee's mother, Marguerite Oswald, knew a number of Marcello's associates, including Sam Termine (Marcello's chauffeur), Clem Sehrt (one of Marcello's lawyers), and Louis Rousell (a financier who allegedly was an associate of Carlos Marcello).

44. Telephone interview with Robert Blakey, July 8, 2011; Waldron and Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, 50, 753; "Santos Trafficante-It Should Have Been Bobby," Mary Ferrell Foundation website,

http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Santos_Trafficante_-_It_Should_Have_Been_Bobby

[accessed August 2, 2011]; Frank Ragano, Mob Lawyer (New York: Random House, 1996); Gerald Posner, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (New York: Anchor Books, 1994), 46061.

45. Moldea, Hoffa Wars, 148; Kurtz, JFK Assassination Debates, 2035.

46. David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (New York: Free Press, 2007), 8687; Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Boston: Little, Brown, 1997), 203.

47. "Organized Crime Expert Says JFK Assassination Wasn't Mob Related," ABC News,

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131460&page=1

[accessed May 26, 2011]; "HSCA Final Assassinations Report," p. 147, History Matters,