“Kill a man, he dies once. Kill his son, he dies 10,000 deaths.” Prior to the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960, his father Joe Kennedy, a former bootlegger during prohibition asked for a favor from mob boss Sam Giancana and his Chicago outfit: to destroy ballot boxes to ensure a win for the younger Kennedy. However, during JFK’s reign as president, the national organized crime syndicate came under fire by way of the newly appointed Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, resulting in several convictions. The mob answered this betrayal with the ultimate revenge: the murder of the 35th President of the United States on November 22nd, 1963, and the subsequent cover up. This is the most convincing account yet of how and why the Mob killed JFK told by someone who was there – Sam Giancana’s brother Joe “Pepe” Giancana, a relative of writer Nicki Celozzi.
2026