#JFKAssassination
16 entries tagged JFKAssassination.
People (14)
- Carlos Marcello Carlos Marcello was the boss of the New Orleans crime family who was identified by the HSCA as having both the motive and means to arrange President Kennedy's assassination - he had threatened Kennedy according to FBI informants, was deported to Guatemala by Robert Kennedy in 1961, returned illegally, and was eventually convicted on racketeering charges in the FBI's BRILAB sting in 1981.
- Clay Shaw Clay Shaw was a prominent New Orleans businessman and founder of the International Trade Mart who was arrested by District Attorney Jim Garrison in 1967 on conspiracy charges related to the Kennedy assassination, acquitted in 1969, and posthumously confirmed by declassified documents to have been a CIA domestic contact - a fact CIA Director Richard Helms denied under oath at the trial.
- David Atlee Phillips David Atlee Phillips was a CIA propaganda officer who ran La Voz de la Liberacion for the 1954 Guatemala coup, served as Chief of Cuban Operations at the CIA's Mexico City station during Lee Harvey Oswald's disputed September-October 1963 visit, and was identified in 2013 by Alpha 66 founder Antonio Veciana as the CIA officer 'Maurice Bishop' whom Veciana had seen with Oswald in Dallas two months before the Kennedy assassination - a claim Phillips denied under HSCA oath but that CIA officer Ron Crozier confirmed was a Phillips alias.
- David Ferrie David Ferrie was a New Orleans pilot, CIA-connected operative, and Civil Air Patrol instructor whose unit included a young Lee Harvey Oswald in the mid-1950s, who worked with Guy Banister's anti-Castro network and as an investigator for Carlos Marcello's defense team, and who died on February 22, 1967 of a berry aneurysm two days after Jim Garrison announced he was under investigation.
- George de Mohrenschildt George de Mohrenschildt was a Russian-born Texas petroleum geologist who became Lee Harvey Oswald's closest Dallas friend in 1962-1963, maintained a documented relationship with CIA Domestic Contact Service officer J. Walton Moore, obtained a Haitian oil contract immediately after his closest period with Oswald, and died of a shotgun wound on March 29, 1977 - the same day HSCA investigator Gaeton Fonzi first attempted to contact him.
- Guy Banister Guy Banister was a former FBI Special Agent in Charge who ran a private detective agency in New Orleans at 531 Lafayette Street - the same building whose 544 Camp Street entrance was stamped on Lee Harvey Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets in summer 1963, a coincidence that placed him at the intersection of Oswald's activities and the city's anti-Castro intelligence networks.
- Jack Ruby Jack Ruby (born Jacob Rubenstein) was a Dallas strip club owner with organized crime connections who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas Police headquarters on November 24, 1963 in front of live television cameras, was convicted of murder but died of cancer in January 1967 before retrial, and whose pre-assassination contacts with mob figures remained a focus of the HSCA's conspiracy investigation.
- James Jesus Angleton James Jesus Angleton served as the CIA's chief of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1974, running the illegal HT/LINGUAL mail opening program, overseeing Operation CHAOS domestic surveillance, opening a 201 file on Lee Harvey Oswald in 1960 under a deliberately wrong name, maintaining the CIA's Israeli intelligence liaison under KK MOUNTAIN, and conducting a mole hunt triggered by his betrayal by Kim Philby that destroyed dozens of CIA officers' careers while the actual Soviet penetrations - Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen - operated undetected for years after his 1974 firing.
- Jim Garrison Jim Garrison was the New Orleans District Attorney who launched the only criminal prosecution related to the Kennedy assassination, arresting businessman Clay Shaw in 1967 on conspiracy charges, losing the case in 1969 after what he argued was active CIA obstruction, and becoming the basis for Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK.
- Johnny Roselli Johnny Roselli was a senior Chicago Outfit figure operating in Las Vegas and Hollywood who was recruited by the CIA in 1960 as the primary organized crime conduit for assassination plots against Fidel Castro, testified before the Church Committee in 1975-1976, and was murdered and stuffed in an oil drum in Dumfoundling Bay, Florida, shortly after his second Senate appearance.
- Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald was the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas - a former U.S. Marine stationed at the CIA's U-2 base at Atsugi who defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, returned to the United States in 1962, distributed Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets in New Orleans in summer 1963, visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City that September, and was shot by Jack Ruby two days after arrest; the CIA's counterintelligence division (CI/SIG) had maintained a 201 file on him since December 9, 1960, and a senior CIA officer who signed a key pre-assassination cable later stated she was 'signing off on something that I know isn't true.'
- Sam Giancana Sam Giancana was the boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 who was recruited by the CIA through Robert Maheu and Johnny Roselli in 1960 to plan the assassination of Fidel Castro under ZR/RIFLE, and who was shot seven times in his Oak Park, Illinois home on June 19, 1975, days before he was scheduled to testify before the Church Committee.
- Santos Trafficante, Jr. Santo Trafficante Jr. was the Tampa organized crime boss who held pre-revolutionary Cuba casino interests, was recruited by the CIA in 1960 for anti-Castro assassination plots alongside Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli, and whose attorney Frank Ragano claimed he made a deathbed confession of involvement in John Kennedy's assassination.
- Yuri Nosenko Yuri Nosenko was a KGB officer who defected to the CIA on February 4, 1964 and claimed to have reviewed the KGB's file on Lee Harvey Oswald and found no KGB connection to the Kennedy assassination - a claim that led James Angleton and Anatoli Golitsyn to insist he was a Soviet plant, resulting in Nosenko's illegal imprisonment in a specially built CIA cell for three and a half years before the agency concluded he was genuine.
Events (2)
- HSCA The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA, 1976-1979) was the second major U.S. government inquiry into the Kennedy assassination, concluding that a 'probable conspiracy' existed based on acoustic evidence suggesting a fourth shot from the grassy knoll, finding that the CIA had improperly withheld information about the ZR/RIFLE program from the Warren Commission, and producing a report whose conspiracy finding was partially reversed by a 1982 acoustic re-analysis.
- Warren Commission The Warren Commission was the official body appointed by President Johnson in November 1963 to investigate the Kennedy assassination, whose September 1964 report concluded Oswald acted alone - a finding undermined by the CIA's deliberate concealment of ZR/RIFLE and the anti-Castro assassination programs from the commission, and later challenged by the HSCA's 1979 conclusion that 'probable conspiracy' existed.