S1 Ep2: Sam Giancana (Part 2)

Mafia

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In the previous episode, we explored the early days of one of the most flamboyant and dangerous mafia bosses of all time, Sam Giancana, and heard from those who strived to bring him to justice. We discovered how he helped get JFK elected to president. hat he made clandestine deals with the CIA to assassinate Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, all in the expectation that his criminal activities would be overlooked by the authorities.

But that didn’t happen – far from leaving Giancana alone, Bobby Kennedy was now on a mission to bring down organized crime. So, with Giancana feeling double-crossed by the Kennedy’s, could he have been behind the most infamous assassination in modern history? This episode is sponsored by Hims and Blue Apron.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Mafia, and in this audio boom original podcast series, we explore America's criminal underworld to reveal the lives and careers of its greatest gangsters.
0:10.5	The series has been extensively researched and produced in consultation with experts, authors, and those who are actually there.
0:18.0	Our sponsors are Hems and Blue Apron.
0:21.5	In the last episode, Fleet Cooper examined the rise of Sam J. Kanna's power over crime and his influence in politics.
0:29.0	But was the Mafia boss in any way involved in the death of President John F. Kennedy?
0:34.0	Sam J. Kanna helped get JFK elected president and made a secret deal with the CIA to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
0:44.0	Expecting that in return, the authorities would turn a blind eye to his criminal activities.
0:50.0	Sam J. Kanna was the most powerful criminal chief in the history of the United States.
0:56.0	But Bobby Kennedy, as attorney general, made it his mission to bring down organized crime.
1:02.0	When I first saw Sam J. Kanna, I thought there is arrogance, hatred, violence, the viciousness that I've dedicated my career to fighting.
1:16.0	Could J. Kanna, feeling betrayed by the Kennedys, have been behind the most infamous assassination in modern history?
1:29.0	November 22, 1963.
1:32.0	President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline arrive in Dallas, Texas.
1:37.0	Professor Robert Blakey remembers.
1:40.0	The object of the trip was to heal a split between the liberals of the conservatives and the Republican Democratic Party in Texas.
1:52.0	And the hope would be that this was leading or would lead to Kennedy's renomination as a president.
2:01.0	Governor and Mrs. Connolly ride in the presidential limousine.
2:07.0	But Kennedy wouldn't live to see another election.
2:12.0	President Torres is now turning on the Elm Street and it will be only a matter of minutes before he arrives at the trademark.
2:22.0	President Kennedy was hit twice, first in the back and then the head.
2:30.0	It appears as though something has happened in the motor case, Bruce.
2:33.0	Several police officers are rushing up the hill at this time.
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