Hans, there are countless theories about who was behind the
assassination but IMO, it all boils down to facts and evidence. And I
have seen no evidence of a military coup.
Carlos Marcello admitted (unwittingly) to an FBI informant that he
ordered the assassination. He said the same thing to mafia attorney,
Frank Ragano.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exXDcu-yRiw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWGWcR_J0k
Marcello said his accomplice was David Ferrie who introduced him to
Oswald. Within just a few days after it came out in the papers that
Ferrie would be a person of interest in the Garrison investigation, he
was found dead in his apartment, along with two unsigned, typed suicide
notes. He had just phoned Garrison's office, telling them that he was a
"dead man" after the newspaper article came out.
The coroner said his death was the result of natural causes, but New
Orleans was Marcello's town and he had numerous public officials in his
pocket. In his line of work, the coroner would have been at the top of
his list.
Within just a few weeks after telling the Washington Post that the mob
ordered Ruby to kill Oswald, Johnny Roselli's dismembered body was found
floating in an oil drum off the coast of Miami.
Sam Giancana was murdered 5 days before he was supposed to appear before
the Frank Church's committee which had been investigating the mob's role
in the assassination.
Charles Nicoletti died just before he was to testify before the HSCA, on
the same day that George De Mohrenschildt supposedly committed suicide
by shooting himself.
I realize that everybody wants to blame the government and the CIA for
the murder and it is not impossible that rogue members of the CIA played
some role, but I have yet to see solid evidence of that. I see a small
mountain of evidence supporting the mob theory.
FWIW, Charles Blakey, the head of the HSCA, also believed that Marcello
was behind the crime and wrote a book on the subject, even before the
man confessed.
Last point - I have stated repeatedly, over the years that shots were
fired from the third floor of the Daltex building. If you saw the video
at the top of the thread, you must know about the damaged window on the
third floor, facing directly down Elm St.
That third floor is where the only professional criminal in DP was
discovered that day. That was Jim Braden, who had connections to
Ferrie/Marcello and who just happened to be in the same hotel with Jack
Ruby, the night before the assassination.
There's nothing wrong with speculating, but any theory which does not
have that kind of evidence IMO, belongs in the "maybe" file, along with
a couple dozen others.
Robert Harris