On 9/19/20 11:09 AM, Ken Hiebert wrote:
It was widely claimed that voter fraud in Illinois swung the election
for Kennedy.
I do not recall where I read these claims.
Connections made in this period would prove useful during JFK’s 1960
Presidential bid. Murray “Curley” Humphreys, the brains behind Al
Capone, and his chief executioner Sam Giancana (nicknamed “Moony”
because of his psychopathic reputation) had inherited control of the
Chicago mob after Capone’s death and built up powerful alliances in the
trade union bureaucracy all around the country that helped to tip the
balance in Kennedy’s favor in the 1960 primaries race.
Using mob lawyer and ex-state attorney general Robert J. McDonnell as a
liaison, the Kennedys met with Giancana in Chicago in 1960. According to
Russo, a quid pro quo was worked out at this meeting. In exchange for
the mob’s help, a Kennedy Justice Department would go easy on them.
According to Humphreys’ widow, the mobster was leery of making a deal:
“Murray was against it. He remembered Joe Kennedy from the bootlegging
days–called him an untrustworthy ‘four flusher’ and a ‘potato eater.’
Something to do with a booze delivery that Joe had stolen. He said that
Joe Kennedy could be trusted as far as he, Murray, could throw a piano.”
The gangsters focused their efforts on West Virginia, a key swing state.
Mob-controlled jukeboxes all across the state began featuring Jack
Kennedy’s campaign song, while a Kennedy aide paid tavern owners $20
each day to play it over and over. Meanwhile, a Giancana associate doled
out $50,000 across the state to cash-starved local politicians. These
bribes paid off handsomely, as Kennedy beat Senator Hubert Humphrey by a
60-40 margin.
In the general election, the same pattern could be seen. Trade union
bureaucrats poured into Curley Humphreys’ office to receive their
marching orders. According to Russo, “Among the regular visitors were
Murray Olf, the powerful Washington lobbyist, Teamster official John
O’Brien, and East St. Louis boss of the Steamfitters Union, Buster Wortman.”
https://louisproyect.org/2013/11/22/who-was-lee-harvey-oswald/
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