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Marcello: I Loved JFK, Didn't Kill Him

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Marcello: I Loved JFK, Didn't Kill Him

If the Mafia helped kill John F. Kennedy, most conspiracy theorists believe that New Orleans crime boss Carlos Marcello was at the center of such a plot. But the wiseguy vehemently denied a role in JFK's murder, according to long-sealed FBI transcripts just released by Washington's Assassination Records Review Board. In this excerpt from a wiretapped July 1979 conversation with an Unidentified Male (UM), Marcello (CM) recalls that he used to love JFK and bore little malice towards the late president's racket-busting brother Robert. (7 pages)