FULL EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmAx-jnL6RM Subscribe Here: ⁠@JulianDoreyDaily LOU'S LINKS: BOOK/WEBSITE: https://louisferrante.com/ X: https://x.com/LOUFERRANTE Newsletter: https://juliandoreypodcast.beehiiv.com/get-julians-top-10-books CLIPPERS DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/8QmWEKJ3BT Louis Ferrante is a former Gambino crime family associate who served eight and a half years for robberies and hijackings before becoming an author and the semi-official historian of the American Mafia. His book Borgata: Clash of Titans — the second volume of his Borgata Trilogy — presents what reviewers have called the most impeccably researched case for Mafia involvement in the JFK assassination available. He sits down with Julian Dorey for the most operationally credentialed and most historically specific JFK assassination conversation this podcast has produced — covering the Dallas PD and Chief Justice Curry's connection to Oswald, the Marcello trial, Lee Harvey Oswald's documented Mafia connection, why they killed John F. Kennedy, the role of Cuban revolutionaries, 60 years of JFK file lies and Elon Musk's involvement in the release process, and ultimately the question the entire conversation has been building toward: who killed JFK. The Oswald Mafia connection thread is the episode's most forensically specific and most historically consequential contribution. Ferrante presents documented evidence that Oswald was connected to Carlos Marcello's network through David Ferrie — the man Ferrante describes as the person who brought all the pieces together and assembled the operation. Ferrante notes that J. Edgar Hoover himself heard tape of a person impersonating Oswald — suggesting that the real Oswald may not have fired a shot and that a deliberate effort was made to frame him as a character he was not. The more than 100 tipoffs the FBI received in the week after Kennedy's killing linking Oswald and Jack Ruby and Ruby and David Ferrie are examined in the specific institutional context of why those tips were not pursued. The why they killed JFK thread is the episode's most politically consequential and most personally revealing contribution. Joe Kennedy paradoxically used mob connections to help JFK win the 1960 election particularly in Illinois and West Virginia. However Robert Kennedy's aggressive pursuit of organized crime as Attorney General created deep animosity with the mob. The specific decision to kill Kennedy — the failed assassination attempts in Florida and Chicago before the successful Dallas plot — and the specific role of Carlos Marcello in orchestrating the operation are examined with the granular operational detail that only someone with Ferrante's specific background in organized crime can provide. The Cuban revolutionaries thread is the episode's most geopolitically significant dimension. The specific role of anti-Castro Cuban exiles — figures connected to both the CIA's Bay of Pigs operation and to Marcello's New Orleans network — in the JFK assassination is one of the most consistently underexamined elements of the conspiracy. Ferrante examines how Cuban revolutionary anger at Kennedy's failure to fully support the Bay of Pigs invasion created a specific and documented pool of motivated actors who had both the ideological commitment and the operational connections to participate in the Dallas plot. Dallas PD Chief Justice Curry's connection to Oswald and the Marcello trialLee Harvey Oswald's documented Mafia connection — the network that produced him and used himDavid Ferrie's role as the operational coordinator of the Dallas plotJ. Edgar Hoover's knowledge of someone impersonating Oswald before the assassinationWhy the Mafia had a specific and documented motive to kill JFK — the Robert Kennedy prosecutionThe failed assassination attempts in Florida and Chicago before DallasWhy Cuban revolutionaries had both the motive and the connections to participate60 years of JFK file lies — what has been withheld and why Ferrante says the withholding is itself evidenceElon Musk and the file release — what it produced and what it still has notWho killed JFK — Louis Ferrante's most direct and most historically grounded answer This is the JFK assassination examined by the one person who has both the organized crime insider knowledge and the historical research depth to make the Mafia theory not just compelling but documented — and who answers the question that 65% of Americans already believe the answer to. ***TIMESTAMPS*** 00:00 - Dallas PD Chief Justice Curry & Oswald & Marcello Trial 08:56 - Lee Harvey Oswald's Mafia Connection 26:38 - Why They Killed John F Kennedy 28:34 - Cuban Revolutionaries & JFK 38:49 - 60 Years of JFK File Lies & Elon Musk @JulianDoreyDaily