Bloody Treason: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

[Mark Stapleton]

You can't categorize Ruby as a Mafioso. It's a round peg in a square hole.

I am not. Don't put words in people's mouths. Ruby wasn't a made man. Impossible for him. Just another hustler which did business and worked for the mob. Or who ever was paying.

I wasn't referring to you personally but rather the research community generally. Apologies for the clumsy wording.

My issue is with the commonly seen habit of researchers and authors to assume the generic term 'mob' places all connected to it under the umbrella of La Cosa Nostra.

Ruby was part of the Lansky/Cohen Jewish underworld--not La Cosa Nostra. He answered to them, not to Hoffa or Trafficante.

As I mentioned earlier, Peter Dale Scott described the House Committee's obsessive focus on La Cosa Nostra as bureaucratically distorted to the point of falsehood.