Jim Gatewood, Dallas historian, best selling author and founder of the Assassination Review Board. The Assassination Review Board was formed in 2003 to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy without the misinformation and bureaucratic boundaries imposed by various self serving Federal institutions.

Kennedy was a dead man walking after a Mafia meeting at the posh Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami February 1962.

Five hit squads were set up; one in Miami, one in New Orleans, one in Chicago, one in Los Angles and one in Dallas.

The shooter Lee Oswald had been picked out but he had to be tested. His assignment to be a made man was to kill General Edwin A. Walker. This would not only prove to the mob that he had the nerve – but also the mob would have control of him because Jack Ruby and a Dallas policeman would drive him to the General’s home to take the shot.

April 30, 1963, almost six months to the day before Oswald shot Kennedy General Walker barely escaped death when

Oswald’s bullet skimmed over his head leaving glass shards

in the General’s hair.

The day Oswald shot President Kennedy 261 federal indict-ments were pending against Mafia family members but with the new President Linden B. Johnson these indictments simply faded away and the Mafia’s future was guaranteed.

You are invited to hear the board’s findings.