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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)I did not say that LBJ was necessarilly a participant in the conspiracy nor did I claim that Madeleine Brown's statements were accurate. The reference may have come from E. Howard Hunt. Regardless, the phrase is out there when you do a search on various search engines, and not always does it refer only to JFK's aides in an endearing way. Other examples found from the first page of search results on "Irish Mafia"+Kennedy:
"The Irish Mafia around JFK - posted in JFK Assassination Debate: It's a worthwhile question, given Joe Kennedy's background."
"His assassination was the culmination of a much more sophisticated and subtle gang struggle between the Irish Mafia and the Italian Mafia"
"The Kennedy dynasty was founded in part on the bootleg whiskey trade during Prohibition."
Urban dictionary: "some people make a link between J.F.Kennedy and the Irish mob"
You simply cannot deny that these ideas are out there in ciculation, and when stopbush makes reference to the "Irish Mafia" it keys right into them, further chipping away at the Kennedy legacy.