s of February. This day is now called “The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre”. Capone felt that his enemy, Bugs Moran needed to be eliminated. The plan was to negotiate a false liquor deal and take him out. The gunmen dressed up as police to raid the deal, stood 7 of Moran’s men on the wall and opened fire. Lucky for Bugs he was a block away running late. Reports of this massacre ran rampant through Chicago but no connection could be made to Capone as he sat in his Miami home, thousands of miles away from any massacre. This brought bad publicity to Capone and all mobsters, as murder was not something the public loved about him. Capone died in 1947 in Miami after suffering a brain hemorrhage (Alponse 7). Even past the mob’s height of success, there are alleged ties between the Mafia and the 35th president of the United States, John F Kennedy. Chicago mob boss “Momo” Johnson did Kennedy a favor by “raising the dead” and stuffing the ballots in the 1960 presidential election where JFK won by 1/10th of a point. Kennedy then made the mistake of disassociating himself from his Mafia associates and refused to return the favor. These alleged acts form an assassination theory pointing the finger at the Mafia for the hit. It was not only because of the un-returned favors, but JFK and his brother Bobby who was attorney general led a crackdown on organized crime. Convictions involving the mob soared from 35 to 288 in 2 years. This did not make Mafia leaders happy, which is an acceptable motive for Kennedy’s assassination (Fox 308). The speculation surrounding Kennedy’s assassination is visible in the film. JFK is first hit in the throat and bounces forward. The fatal shot came from the front making it obvious that there must have been two shooters, going against the Warren Commission’s reports blaming Lee Harvey Oswald for the killing. With hundreds of investigatio...
