Example sentences for: giancana

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  • Details the papers mention include: a) The Chicago mob's help in the 1960 election was secured in a JFK-Sam Giancana face-to-face meeting arranged by JFK's father; b) Evelyn Lincoln, JFK's personal secretary, tells Hersh that she knows the West Virginia election was "bought"; c) Four ex-Secret Service agents describe the large numbers of sex partners--many of them prostitutes--ushered into the White House and hotel rooms; d) General Dynamics was able to parlay its discovery of JFK's affair with Judith Campbell Exner into a huge fighter plane contract.

  • Mafia boss Sam Giancana allegedly canceled the hit after hearing a Sinatra album.

  • Another example is Hersh's failure to harmonize his various stories of how Joe Kennedy Sr. helped steal the 1960 election for his son by paying off Giancana to help deliver the union vote in Chicago.

  • Historian Thomas Reeves believes that, despite the media's reluctance to look into Kennedy's private life, if he had lived to have a second term: "[T]he realities of his lechery and his dealings with Sam Giancana might have leaked out while he was still in office, gravely damaging the presidency.

  • Exner, who was at various times the lover of Frank Sinatra, JFK, and the Chicago-based mobster Sam Giancana, was under heavy surveillance by the FBI because of her mob ties.


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