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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Nov 2019

    Why exactly did Bobby Kennedy go after Giancana & other mobsters after the mafia helped elect JFK and while the CIA was using the mafia in Cuba? Is there a good explanation for this?

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      2. James Harris‏ @JaZarris 28 Nov 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Because Bobby DGAF?

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      3. James Harris‏ @JaZarris 28 Nov 2019
        Replying to @JaZarris @HeerJeet

        No but really in all my readings it was because Bobby didn’t care and was genuinely concerned with the mobs clearly negative influence in American society.

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      2. Michael Hayes‏ @tragedyman 28 Nov 2019
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        IIRC, James Ellroy's hunch was the latter.

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      1. Lucy Kwiatek  🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 🌻‏ @MandHF 28 Nov 2019
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        PR?

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      1. קשת A*‏ @SababaUSA 28 Nov 2019
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        RFK was counsel on the improper activities in labor committee in the 1950s and wrote a whole book about it, so maybe he was just knowledgeable and genuinely concerned about it?

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      1. Omar‏ @beirutwhat 28 Nov 2019
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        Because they did? Maybe too dangerous for them to be out there knowing that.

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      2. Dave Kamper  🌹‏ @dskamper 28 Nov 2019
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        I'm just reading Jack Goldsmith's new book on Hoffa and it has a good analysis of RFK's general motives in going after organized crime. Also, fair to say that the Mafia role in the 1960 election is wildly overstated in popular culture.

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      3. Incompent Beneficiary of Nepotism‏ @WallySierk 28 Nov 2019
        Replying to @dskamper @HeerJeet

        The Cook County Miracle was just how shit ran in Illinois. I don’t think there was a “special deal between Joe Kennedy and the Chicago mob”, I think the Daley Machine just ran as per usual

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      1.  🇵🇸 Free Palestine  🇵🇸‏ @BookCd 28 Nov 2019
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        idk. perhaps he was a better person than his brother?

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