Any merit to Simkins "suite 8F" theory ?

[Tracy Riddle]

I believe it is a fundamental distinction.

Unless you think the Irish Mob came to Supreme Power when Joe Kennedy's brat became POTUS.

Jan, I don't understand your point. There has never been any faction within the System that has held Supreme Power. There has never been a "Mr. Big" or one group permanently dominating all the others. It is a loosely-affiliated network of elite groups and families. Like warlords in feudal Japan, sometimes they cooperate, sometimes they fight with each other.

Tracy - Carlos Marcello could no more have flown the cabinet out of the country and engineered the Warren Commission than his son could have initiated Continuity Of Government (COG) mechanisms on the day the Twin Towers were struck.

Yes, but my point was that mobsters like Marcello are part of the system, linked to all the groups I listed above. The people who say "the mob did it" are insisting on a false separation between organized crime and the rest of society.