So the supposed confession is only hearsay, as reported by a man named Laningham? Am I understanding that correctly? Is that evidence, or is that hearsay?
Hank
Laningham was doing a bit in the same facility as CM, negotiated a deal with the FBI to do a little jailhouse snitching and the FBI provided him with a bugged radio that he kept in his cell.
The big noise about this piece of the story is largely dependent on knowledge of mafiosi behavior (if you take the position of the FBI) or the desire for wish fulfillment (if you're a CTist)
Marcello (on tape) told Laningham and another convict exactly what our new moderator described - he had JFK killed and wished he'd done it sooner.
The FBI couldn't understand why CM, an old time Capo if there ever was one, would talk outside of his thing with two convicts that not only weren't LCN associates or members, they weren't Sicilian and they were both low level criminals.
The FBI wrote off CM's "confession" as braggadocio.
If one is a CTist, any statement that supports their fantasy is unassailable, and anything else is well, no big whoop.
There's something else to consider in RW facts that certain parties want to ignore wrt FBI and Justice Department information gleaned through wire taps (legal and otherwise) back in the day.
For all the thousands of hours of wiretaps, although hatred of Kennedy was much in evidence (in the house I grew up in too) there was not one single actionable piece of intelligence that pointed towards a real world LCN conspiracy to hit JFK.
I was raised to believe that LCN did the deed, but the faith-based belief in that version of events doesn't stand up to the actual evidence.
JFK is only the most well known example of someone killed by a nobody for reasons only the nobody knew.
