pet had the opportunity to kill Oswald, hesitated, and was killed in return (3). When the Mafia issued the contract, originally, it is a probable possibility that David Ferrie accepted it and offered an assistance spot to Oswald. Ferrie is the person who taught Oswald to shoot high-powered rifles during his account with the Civil Air Patrol (2, 216). Jim Garrison says that Oswald not only turned the contract down, but also tried to warn the government ahead of time by means of telex (3). This alone, based on the nature of the contract, would be motive enough for the Mafia to set him up as a patsy, and carry out his execution. Carlos Marcello, Godfather of the Mafia in New Orleans and Dallas, said, in rage, that the Kennedy’s had had him kidnapped and left him in Guatemala (3). Marcello was under an extreme attack, by the government, for Mafia related crimes. Edward Becker, a private investigator, said that, in 1962 at his Churchill Farms estate, Marcello threatened to have Kennedy killed (2, 229). Although the godfather who had to grant permission to use Dallas as the assassination grounds, Carlos Marcello did not act alone (1). The means of which the assassins were paid brought Santo Trafficante into the equation.Santo Trafficante, a Mafia boss who had accepted a contract on Fidel Castro’s life, hired three French assassins through Antoine Givenchy to kill Castro (8). Robert Mahue was hired by the CIA to be the go between for the government and the Mafia (8). Trafficante failed his mission and was imprisoned by Castro, but released by Fidel Castro’s brother Raul Castro (8). Raul released Trafficante for a payment in heroin, which was Trafficante’s cash crop. Trafficante was arrested because Fidel’s rebels had taken over the government in a successful revolution, and confiscated the extensive private holdings of the Mafiosi (3). This is the most significant reason why Trafficante hated Kennedy. During the...
