Episode 117 History of the Mafia Part 2

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

Ruby, Dallas, Murder, Society & Culture, Coup D'etat, History, Government, President, Documentary, Kennedy, Jfk, Johnson, Oswald, Fbi, Mafia, Cia, Assassination

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🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Episode 117 is the third episode of a series of quasi history lessons as we begin to explore the forces that were shaping the world in that era of the twentieth century. We started first in Episode 115 with the origins of the CIA and the history of covert operations, since they will eventually play an important role in this story. Starting in Episode 116 and continuing in this Episode 117, we begin to discuss the Mafia and its historical origins in a small wander that provi...

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0:00.0	The Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.
0:41.9	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
1:00.7	Hello. Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast.
1:04.8	Today's episode is episode 117.
1:13.0	It's a continuation of what we started in episode 116 when we began to tell the history of the mafia.
1:14.9	We're not finished yet.
1:21.0	Yes, I know it's a bit of a wander, and certainly it's nothing more than a rudimentary background to a complex topic.
1:23.1	One that has many fingers of the lake, as I like to say.
1:27.4	And perhaps playing off that same analogy,
1:30.2	there might be a finger or two missing from this particular wander. But wouldn't that just be
1:35.6	poetically correct, given that we are talking about the mafia? Again, for those of you who have
1:40.7	studied the topic, it might be a bit of a yawn. But for those of you that
1:44.8	haven't, it's really a primer of how this organism that was the mafia evolved and got ahead of
1:50.8	law enforcement in this country and embedded itself in so many ways, in so many important facets of
1:58.1	our American society. It took a while for the government and society
2:02.9	to catch up, but in the rapidly changing world we live in, they did. They finally did.
2:09.7	As we wander through the remainder of what I will share on the historical side of the mafia
2:15.0	over the next several episodes, we'll start this episode with that moment in time when the mafia began to organize itself
2:23.2	corporately, so to speak, with a true organization chart, a pecking order.
2:29.7	Let's pause for just a second and describe it.
2:33.3	First, at the head of everything is the boss. The boss is the head of the
2:37.8	family, usually reigning as a dictator, sometimes called the Don or Godfather. The boss receives a cut of
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