"I had the little bastard killed.  He was a thorn in my shoe"...According to a secret FBI informant these were the words of his cellmate, Carlos Marcello, the notorious New Orleans mafia boss (one of America's most powerful mafia godfathers) confessing to his role in orchestrating the Kennedy assassination and featured in DID THE MOB KILL JFK?

Almost half a century after the assassination, the informant has come forward to provide an exclusive interview that may solve one of the nation's most enduring mysteries and re-write history.  With an exclusive interview with the informant, DID THE MOB KILL JFK? tracks the nexus of organized crime, the Justice Department, the CIA and attempts to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro culminating in that fateful day in Dallas.  Marcello, who controlled mob operations in Louisiana and Texas, had long been suspected in having a hand in the Kennedy assassination.  

DID THE MOB KILL JFK? links Marcello with both Oswald and Ruby, as the godfather reveals in his confession that he brought Lee Harvey Oswald into the plot, telling the informant that "He was my man.  He did what the hell I told him to do."  Marcello also admits that Dallas strip club owner Jack Ruby was deeply in debt and "owed him big."  The special draws on an array of historians, investigators and eyewitness accounts, including interviews with author Lamar Waldron and former Secret Serviceman Abraham Bolden who claims an aborted attempt on the President's life in Chicago early in November was covered up. 

Many of these Oswald/Ruby questions and theories put forth are analyzed and answered inJFK:  THE RUBY CONNECTION at 9 PM (ET/PT).  It was two days after President Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza, and the press had descended on Dallas to witness what should have been a routine prison transfer of the alleged assassin.  But on that Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, local strip club owner Jack Ruby walked into the Dallas Police parking garage and, broadcast live on television, gunned down Oswald with a single .38 caliber bullet.  This second assassination effectively ended plans for the trial of Oswald and began more than forty years of speculation about who really killed Kennedy and why. 

What was the real Ruby/Oswald connection?  With precision and a meticulous Mad Men-level of detail, the producers of JFK:  THE RUBY CONNECTION set out to answer this by recreating and restaging the November 24^th shooting of Oswald returning to the actual Dallas police station garage where Ruby lunged for the assassin on live television.   The special plots every piece of the timeline of events that led to the killing.  Producers use the same vintage cameras and lights used in 1963, recreate the confusion of the basement setting, and bring all the remaining eyewitnesses, including detective Jim Leavelle, who stood next to Oswald and whose grimace as the assassin slumps over is forever seared into history. 

Using cutting edge technology, forensics experts analyze every available film and still from the shooting including a little seen video taken from behind Oswald by ABC's Steve Alexander.  After careful consideration, JFK:  THE RUBY CONNECTION concludes that it would be virtually impossible to keep silent for over forty years the sheer number of people required to make a possible conspiracy a reality.