JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, FRANK COSTELLO, AND THE MOB:
POINT: 9. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, FRANK COSTELLO, AND THE MOB: "The most direct assertion of Kennedy involvement in bootlegging came from Frank Costello, the most powerful Mafia boss of the 1940'' and 1950's, who sought in his later years to cast himself as a successful business man. In February 1973, at the age of eighty-two, Costello decided to begin telling his story to Peter Mass, the prize-winning New York journalist. Ten days after he began, he suffered a heart seizure and died, before Maas could fully explore the Kennedy-Costello relationship. Maas later told the New York Time that Costello had confided that he and Kennedy had been 'partners' in the bootleg liquor business during Prohibition - a partnership that began, Costello said, after Kennedy sought him out and asked for his help. In an interview for this book, Maas said that Costello specifically recalled arranging for the delivery by sea of bootleg scotch to a Cape Cod beach party celebrating the tenth reunion of Joe Kennedy's Harvard class of 1912. 'We were in the liquor business,' Costello told Maas, adding that Kennedy was responsible for the shipping of liquor to the United States from abroad." "Similarly, in his 1983 memoir, A Man of Honor, Joseph Bonanno, the retired New York Mafia boss, said that Costello always told him, 'and I have no reason to doubt it, that during Prohibition he and Joe Kennedy of Boston were partners in the liquor business...I would sometimes go to Sag Harbor, Long Island, in the summer. This was one of the coves, so I was told that the Kennedy people used to transport whiskey during Prohibition." The Dark Side of Camelot, Seymour M. Hersh, p.48. Who was at the Court of St. James urging isolation while Hitler builded an army on US capital? Joe Sr. via FDR who the rich called a traitor to his class!! Because he cared AND DID SOMETHING FOR THE POOR OF THIS COUNTRY in his elevation to power which now happens magically as before 1932. The gangsters who send our youth to die by IED's and bullets; the same DuPont's and rich folk as alway.
