Killing the Mob by Bill O'Reilly

Author:Bill O'Reilly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

The mobster repays the favor, showing his friendship by always wearing the sapphire pinkie ring given to him by Frank Sinatra. When the singer films the movie Some Came Running in a town near Chicago, Giancana is a regular visitor to the set, often bringing his Mafia underlings. Their nightly revelry amazed costar Shirley MacLaine. “I didn’t know who they were,” she would remember of the anonymous mobsters. “I only knew that the nightlife of poker, jokes, pasta, and booze went on until 5 a.m.”

“Frank wanted to be a hood,” singer Eddie Fisher will later marvel at Sinatra’s fascination with Giancana. “He once said, ‘I’d rather be a Mafia don than President of the United States.’”

The actor Peter Lawford, now married to Bobby Kennedy’s sister Patricia, knows Giancana through his friendship with Sinatra. “You better believe that when the word got out around Hollywood that Frank was a pal of Sam Giancana, nobody but nobody ever messed with Frank Sinatra. They were too scared. Concrete boots were no joke with this guy. He was a killer.”

Left unsaid in the committee room on this day is that John Kennedy is also a very good friend of Frank Sinatra and his band of fellow entertainers, nicknamed the Rat Pack. Sinatra and his crew often make jokes about their Mafia connections. In doing so, they turn the Mafia from the hoodlums depicted by Sergeant Croswell in his earlier testimony into glamorous mystery men.

The main event of the second McClellan hearing is Bobby Kennedy against Sam Giancana. The encounter does not go well for the government.

Mr. Kennedy: Would you tell us if you have opposition from anybody that you dispose of them by having them stuffed in a trunk? Is that what you do, Mr. Giancana?

Sam Giancana: I decline to answer because I honestly believe my answer might tend to incriminate me.

Mr. Kennedy: Would you tell us anything about any of your operations, or will you just giggle every time I ask you a question?

Sam Giancana: I decline to answer because I honestly believe my answer might tend to incriminate me.

Mr. Kennedy: I thought only little girls giggled, Mr. Giancana.

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