Commonwealth Club Of California Podcast

Bestselling author and noted historian Mark Shaw returns to Commonwealth Club World Affairs to discuss his latest research and his newest book. They strengthen his conclusion that New Orleans mafia don Carlos Marcello was the point person pulling the strings behind the murders of JFK and famed journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. And, for the first time, he also links Marcello to the murder of Robert Kennedy. In his previous books, Shaw established the connections between Marcello, Oswald, Ruby and Kilgallen and Marcello’s use of Kilgallen’s lover to silence her before she could expose Marcello’s involvement in the JFK assassination. In his latest book, Abuse of Power, Shaw lays out compelling evidence that Marcello’s pattern of using patsies to exact his revenge culminated in his setting Sirhan Sirhan up to take the fall for the assassination of RFK on June 6, 1968.  Shaw’s new research includes his examination of the JFK assassination records recently released by the federal government. In those files is a Decemb