Did the Mob Kill President John F. Kennedy?

The Bufalino Files

The 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is less than two years away. It is appropriate that we consider new revelations about the potential involvement of organized crime.

My local newspaper, The Citizens' Voice used The Freedom of Information Act to obtain the FBI's file on the late mobster Russell Bufalino. The newspaper published an article entitled The Bufalino Files, and a second article about the potential involvement of organized crime in the assassination of President Kennedy. This second article also uses information that is found in other public documents and books.

Bufalino was the mob boss in Northeastern Pennsylvania for decades. Bufalino may have been one of the mobsters who supported and then helped carry out the assassination. Bufalino was involved in government and politics, as well as the unions. His home in Kingston Pennsylvania was an important target which was under surveillance by the FBI.

The Theory

The theory goes like this. Sheeran was a mob associate who did many tasks for Bufalino and Teamsters Union chief Jimmy Hoffa. Sheeran admits to killing Hoffa on Bufalino's orders in 1975.

Sheeran states that Bufalino summoned him to Kingston Pennsylvania and then ordered him to see a friend in New Jersey. A mobster there gave Sheeran a duffel bag and with three rifles. Sheeran was a World War II veteran, so he knew something about weapons. Sheeran was ordered to take the bag to a cement business in Baltimore Maryland where he met two men he would not identify. One was another mob figure, possibly Johnny Roselli, and the other was a pilot, possibly David Ferrie. The two men transported the guns to Dallas Texas.

President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, as his motorcade passed through Dallas. Most American who were alive back then, vividly remember that day, and what they were doing when they got the shocking news.

Sheeran said that Bufalino talked about Dallas in the mid-1970s as he and others tried to convince Hoffa to give up his demand that he regain his presidency of the Teamsters Union. Hoffa was aggressively investigated by President Kennedy's brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Hoffa was eventually jailed and was pardoned by President Nixon. Sheeran said Bufalino told Hoffa to remember what we did for you in Dallas.

Hoffa disappeared in July 1975. Sheeran died in 2003.

Source: Paul Golias, An oh-so tangled web of conspiracies, The Citizens' Voice, July 26, 2011.