1 00:00:07,354 --> 00:00:11,532 [crowd chattering] 2 00:00:11,619 --> 00:00:13,273 I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear-- 3 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:14,709 That you will-- 4 00:00:14,796 --> 00:00:15,928 When Jack Kennedy became 5 00:00:16,015 --> 00:00:17,973 president of the United States, 6 00:00:18,061 --> 00:00:19,236 he inherited, in essence, 7 00:00:19,323 --> 00:00:20,715 from the Eisenhower administration 8 00:00:20,802 --> 00:00:25,285 this plan to invade Cuba with the Cuban exiles. 9 00:00:25,372 --> 00:00:28,810 But what JFK didn't know is that the CIA 10 00:00:28,897 --> 00:00:34,207 had also hired the Mafia to try to assassinate Castro. 11 00:00:34,294 --> 00:00:36,775 In the CIA assassination plot, 12 00:00:36,862 --> 00:00:38,646 using the Mafia is supposed 13 00:00:38,733 --> 00:00:41,780 to facilitate the success of the invasion. 14 00:00:41,867 --> 00:00:43,999 With the Mafia's involvement, 15 00:00:44,087 --> 00:00:47,525 the CIA believes that Fidel will be dead 16 00:00:47,612 --> 00:00:50,354 by the time the invasion takes place. 17 00:00:50,441 --> 00:00:54,749 And so they are not paying close attention 18 00:00:54,836 --> 00:00:57,274 to what could go wrong. 19 00:00:57,361 --> 00:00:59,798 It is with great pleasure 20 00:00:59,885 --> 00:01:01,147 that I announce the appointment 21 00:01:01,234 --> 00:01:04,150 of Robert F. Kennedy as attorney general. 22 00:01:04,237 --> 00:01:07,501 And from the moment Jack Kennedy appoints his brother, 23 00:01:07,588 --> 00:01:09,547 Bobby Kennedy, as attorney general, 24 00:01:09,634 --> 00:01:12,593 he is out after the mob with a vengeance. 25 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,379 There is organized crime in the city of Chicago. 26 00:01:15,466 --> 00:01:18,556 It's growing greater and greater every year. 27 00:01:18,643 --> 00:01:22,125 Giancana is saying, here, I'm trying to help 28 00:01:22,212 --> 00:01:24,301 the United States kill Castro 29 00:01:24,388 --> 00:01:26,477 and the heat is not only not off, 30 00:01:26,564 --> 00:01:28,566 the heat is hotter than it ever was before. 31 00:01:28,653 --> 00:01:30,785 What the fuck? 32 00:01:32,135 --> 00:01:34,615 At the request of Bobby Kennedy, 33 00:01:34,702 --> 00:01:38,184 Hoover, head of the FBI, started surveilling the mob. 34 00:01:38,271 --> 00:01:40,708 Our nation's crime problem is growing 35 00:01:40,795 --> 00:01:43,755 in both size and intensity. 36 00:01:43,842 --> 00:01:45,104 During the past decade, 37 00:01:45,191 --> 00:01:47,802 crime has nearly doubled 38 00:01:47,889 --> 00:01:49,674 across the United States. 39 00:01:49,761 --> 00:01:52,067 Hoover becomes zealous about it. 40 00:01:52,155 --> 00:01:54,157 Now I'm going to break up the Mafia. 41 00:01:56,159 --> 00:01:59,684 The CIA didn't realize that Giancana was very impulsive. 42 00:01:59,771 --> 00:02:03,601 He had his emotions on his sleeve, kind of a wild card. 43 00:02:03,688 --> 00:02:08,823 He was loud, brash, obnoxious, unstable. 44 00:02:08,910 --> 00:02:10,738 [glass shatters] 45 00:02:10,825 --> 00:02:12,653 This is going to be a big liability, 46 00:02:12,740 --> 00:02:16,266 not only for the CIA, but also the mob. 47 00:02:16,353 --> 00:02:19,051 The CIA can never let Hoover know 48 00:02:19,138 --> 00:02:22,881 that they're working with the mob to try to kill Castro. 49 00:02:22,968 --> 00:02:25,927 The consequences would be disastrous. 50 00:02:26,014 --> 00:02:28,930 [exciting music] 51 00:02:29,017 --> 00:02:36,068 ♪ ♪ 52 00:03:42,656 --> 00:03:45,529 So while Johnny Roselli is working with the CIA 53 00:03:45,616 --> 00:03:48,271 and trying to figure out ways to kill Castro, 54 00:03:48,358 --> 00:03:51,317 Sam Giancana's attention is elsewhere. 55 00:03:51,404 --> 00:03:54,146 He's not only preoccupied by the FBI 56 00:03:54,233 --> 00:03:58,585 following him all around, his personal life is a mess. 57 00:03:58,672 --> 00:04:03,242 He increasingly is becoming erratic, basically crazy. 58 00:04:03,329 --> 00:04:06,463 It all started after the death of his wife. 59 00:04:09,204 --> 00:04:12,120 [soft dramatic music] 60 00:04:12,207 --> 00:04:15,298 ♪ ♪ 61 00:04:15,385 --> 00:04:17,952 Giancana was a happily married man 62 00:04:18,039 --> 00:04:21,826 out in the suburbs of Chicago with three daughters. 63 00:04:24,481 --> 00:04:26,178 That was part of the reason why 64 00:04:26,265 --> 00:04:28,223 he was entrusted with the Mafia. 65 00:04:28,311 --> 00:04:31,444 They felt that he was a stable, steady guy. 66 00:04:33,925 --> 00:04:36,406 My father loved my mother. 67 00:04:36,493 --> 00:04:39,887 He had the softest heart for her. 68 00:04:39,974 --> 00:04:44,457 He gave her whatever she needed or whatever she wanted. 69 00:04:44,544 --> 00:04:46,677 He had her on such a sort of pedestal. 70 00:04:46,764 --> 00:04:49,027 Comes out of Catholicism, a lot of this stuff-- 71 00:04:49,114 --> 00:04:52,422 conflate the wife with the Madonna. 72 00:04:52,509 --> 00:04:55,163 It was driving them in such deep ways, 73 00:04:55,250 --> 00:04:57,427 especially in Catholic guys. 74 00:04:57,514 --> 00:04:59,429 You know, there really is this-- 75 00:04:59,516 --> 00:05:03,389 my wife is also my mother, my Madonna. 76 00:05:03,476 --> 00:05:06,000 He would come to church with us every Sunday. 77 00:05:06,087 --> 00:05:10,918 My father had tremendous religious beliefs. 78 00:05:11,005 --> 00:05:15,270 Now, how can you have tremendous, wonderful beliefs 79 00:05:15,358 --> 00:05:19,536 if you're doing what you're doing on a daily basis? 80 00:05:19,623 --> 00:05:23,844 When she died, the loss just shattered him. 81 00:05:23,931 --> 00:05:28,022 After that, what Giancana had was just a hole in the bucket. 82 00:05:28,109 --> 00:05:31,417 He could never be filled. 83 00:05:31,504 --> 00:05:33,680 After my mother died, he had a lot of women. 84 00:05:36,770 --> 00:05:41,558 He took a liking to this one especially, Phyllis McGuire. 85 00:05:42,820 --> 00:05:45,866 Phyllis McGuire was a member 86 00:05:45,953 --> 00:05:50,001 of the singing McGuire Sisters of the 1940s and 1950s, 87 00:05:50,088 --> 00:05:51,394 an extremely big act. 88 00:05:51,481 --> 00:05:55,267 all: ♪ Oh darling, just ♪ 89 00:05:55,354 --> 00:05:59,445 ♪ For old time's sake ♪ 90 00:05:59,532 --> 00:06:01,099 ♪ Turn back-- ♪ 91 00:06:01,186 --> 00:06:02,927 I think their biggest hit was called "Sugartime." 92 00:06:03,014 --> 00:06:04,058 ♪ Sugar in the morning ♪ 93 00:06:04,145 --> 00:06:05,190 ♪ Sugar in the evening ♪ 94 00:06:05,277 --> 00:06:07,888 all: ♪ Sugar at suppertime ♪ 95 00:06:07,975 --> 00:06:10,064 ♪ Be my little sugar ♪ 96 00:06:10,151 --> 00:06:13,067 ♪ And love me all the time ♪ 97 00:06:13,154 --> 00:06:18,072 And here, you have this clean, beautiful 98 00:06:18,159 --> 00:06:21,641 California sorority girl, 99 00:06:21,728 --> 00:06:24,601 the kind of wasp American characteristics 100 00:06:24,688 --> 00:06:26,646 that people are supposed to prize. 101 00:06:26,733 --> 00:06:28,953 And don't forget, in the days that 102 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:30,302 we're talking about, 103 00:06:30,389 --> 00:06:36,047 Italians were not viewed as being white, 104 00:06:36,134 --> 00:06:38,353 American. 105 00:06:38,441 --> 00:06:42,096 For Giancana, she was a trophy. 106 00:06:42,183 --> 00:06:44,795 [mellow music playing] 107 00:06:44,882 --> 00:06:50,104 ♪ ♪ 108 00:06:50,191 --> 00:06:53,543 Phyllis McGuire was gambling one night in a place in Vegas. 109 00:06:53,630 --> 00:06:55,675 And she was well-known, so she didn't have 110 00:06:55,762 --> 00:06:57,851 to buy her chips with cash. 111 00:06:57,938 --> 00:06:59,592 So there was a marker. 112 00:06:59,679 --> 00:07:03,291 Which is, in effect, a line of credit. 113 00:07:03,378 --> 00:07:06,947 These lines of credit turn into collections at some point. 114 00:07:10,037 --> 00:07:13,911 She'd lost a lot and run up a debt at the casino. 115 00:07:13,998 --> 00:07:18,959 Giancana was around and just said, tear it up. 116 00:07:19,046 --> 00:07:23,094 And Phyllis becomes Giancana's mistress. 117 00:07:23,181 --> 00:07:25,705 [sultry music] 118 00:07:25,792 --> 00:07:28,969 The cool guy met his match. 119 00:07:29,056 --> 00:07:30,971 Phyllis McGuire said to me 120 00:07:31,058 --> 00:07:33,757 that he was the love of her life, flat out. 121 00:07:33,844 --> 00:07:36,324 Did she love him or did she love 122 00:07:36,411 --> 00:07:38,457 the things she got from him? 123 00:07:38,544 --> 00:07:40,154 I didn't like her. 124 00:07:44,071 --> 00:07:46,421 He fell so hard for her. 125 00:07:46,509 --> 00:07:49,686 Sam Giancana's Sinatra song was 126 00:07:49,773 --> 00:07:52,384 "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You." 127 00:07:54,517 --> 00:07:57,258 This is just a source of fire... 128 00:07:57,345 --> 00:07:59,522 [chuckles] And emotion. 129 00:07:59,609 --> 00:08:01,567 And this is not the greatest thing 130 00:08:01,654 --> 00:08:03,830 to have because he's a powder keg, 131 00:08:03,917 --> 00:08:06,137 and you could push his buttons very easily about this. 132 00:08:06,224 --> 00:08:09,836 ♪ ♪ 133 00:08:09,923 --> 00:08:12,404 Sam is a very jealous man, 134 00:08:12,491 --> 00:08:16,930 and this will lead to grave unintended consequences. 135 00:08:17,017 --> 00:08:19,759 [foreboding music] 136 00:08:24,111 --> 00:08:26,810 [boat whirring] 137 00:08:28,725 --> 00:08:30,030 When they were down in Miami, 138 00:08:30,117 --> 00:08:33,120 Johnny Roselli is working with the Cuban exiles 139 00:08:33,207 --> 00:08:37,385 on the Castro assassination plot. 140 00:08:37,472 --> 00:08:39,387 Johnny depended upon Sam 141 00:08:39,474 --> 00:08:41,476 to make sure that Trafficante 142 00:08:41,564 --> 00:08:44,001 was always there as the translator. 143 00:08:44,088 --> 00:08:48,309 So it was very important for Sam to remain in Florida, 144 00:08:48,396 --> 00:08:52,009 but Sam's preoccupied with something else. 145 00:08:52,096 --> 00:08:55,360 During that time period, Sam gets wind of the fact 146 00:08:55,447 --> 00:08:57,362 that Phyllis McGuire, in Las Vegas, 147 00:08:57,449 --> 00:09:00,713 is somehow being courted by a comedian 148 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:02,323 by the name of Dan Rowan. 149 00:09:02,410 --> 00:09:04,891 [soft dramatic music] 150 00:09:04,978 --> 00:09:07,938 It doesn't end well for any person 151 00:09:08,025 --> 00:09:11,332 who rouses the jealousy of Sam Giancana. 152 00:09:14,161 --> 00:09:16,033 There's a moment with Sam Giancana. 153 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,165 He's going to fly back and see what he can do about it. 154 00:09:18,252 --> 00:09:19,732 CIA says, hold on. Wait, Sam. 155 00:09:19,819 --> 00:09:21,255 Don't worry about it. 156 00:09:21,342 --> 00:09:23,040 They don't want him to leave Florida. 157 00:09:23,127 --> 00:09:26,391 Bob Maheu and the CIA cut out, 158 00:09:26,478 --> 00:09:28,654 hire somebody to illegally bug 159 00:09:28,741 --> 00:09:31,352 Rowan's hotel room to find out 160 00:09:31,439 --> 00:09:34,486 if he's having an affair with McGuire. 161 00:09:34,573 --> 00:09:36,619 Sam stays in Florida. 162 00:09:36,706 --> 00:09:42,146 But what happens in Las Vegas is that a hotel detective 163 00:09:42,233 --> 00:09:44,714 comes by Dan Rowan's room. 164 00:09:46,672 --> 00:09:48,805 Rowan was not stupid. 165 00:09:48,892 --> 00:09:50,894 When he found out about it, 166 00:09:50,981 --> 00:09:53,723 I think he realized, well, maybe you should 167 00:09:53,810 --> 00:09:56,160 take your romantic interests elsewhere. 168 00:09:56,247 --> 00:09:59,946 The hotel detective contacts the sheriff, 169 00:10:00,033 --> 00:10:03,558 and the sheriff contacts the FBI. 170 00:10:03,646 --> 00:10:06,910 It prompts the FBI investigation more and more 171 00:10:06,997 --> 00:10:10,914 into what's going on, threatening to reveal 172 00:10:11,001 --> 00:10:13,830 the CIA's Mafia plot. 173 00:10:16,397 --> 00:10:19,009 [dramatic music] 174 00:10:19,096 --> 00:10:21,185 ♪ ♪ 175 00:10:21,272 --> 00:10:23,883 Fidel Castro whips up a furor in Cuba, 176 00:10:23,970 --> 00:10:25,624 charging the United States with arming 177 00:10:25,711 --> 00:10:29,410 and training mercenary forces for an imminent invasion. 178 00:10:29,497 --> 00:10:31,456 Castro's invasion scare also enlivens 179 00:10:31,543 --> 00:10:33,371 the eve of a debate in the United Nations 180 00:10:33,458 --> 00:10:37,331 on Cuban charges of aggression by the United States. 181 00:10:37,418 --> 00:10:39,769 Before the United Nations Security Council in New York, 182 00:10:39,856 --> 00:10:41,858 Ambassador Wadsworth replied-- 183 00:10:57,177 --> 00:11:00,050 American officials deny everything. 184 00:11:00,137 --> 00:11:03,140 But of course, it's all true. 185 00:11:03,227 --> 00:11:06,360 Jack Kennedy inherited this Bay of Pigs operation. 186 00:11:06,447 --> 00:11:08,145 He didn't really have the greatest feeling about it. 187 00:11:08,232 --> 00:11:10,495 He allowed the CIA to talk him into doing it. 188 00:11:10,582 --> 00:11:14,586 Allen Dulles told him, we have hundreds of commandos 189 00:11:14,673 --> 00:11:20,026 being trained in Guatemala and Fort Knox and New Orleans, 190 00:11:20,113 --> 00:11:22,289 and that whatever doubts he might have, 191 00:11:22,376 --> 00:11:25,945 there would be what he called a disposal problem 192 00:11:26,032 --> 00:11:28,469 if the operation were canceled. 193 00:11:28,556 --> 00:11:31,734 What he meant was, if you call off the operation, 194 00:11:31,821 --> 00:11:33,692 they're all going to be back to Miami 195 00:11:33,779 --> 00:11:34,998 and they're going to tell people 196 00:11:35,085 --> 00:11:37,391 we were just about to overthrow Castro 197 00:11:37,478 --> 00:11:41,918 but that wimp Kennedy called off the project. 198 00:11:42,005 --> 00:11:46,444 The American male, fear of ridicule, 199 00:11:46,531 --> 00:11:49,403 runs throughout so much of our foreign policy. 200 00:11:51,449 --> 00:11:54,452 He was assured that it would work. 201 00:11:54,539 --> 00:11:55,801 There was a lot of arrogance and hubris 202 00:11:55,888 --> 00:11:58,804 that this would be a marvelous operation. 203 00:11:58,891 --> 00:12:01,851 And in the first months of his presidency, 204 00:12:01,938 --> 00:12:05,419 he would be rid of this headache. 205 00:12:10,207 --> 00:12:14,559 Two individuals ran this operation together. 206 00:12:14,646 --> 00:12:19,912 The military detailed a Marine Colonel named Jack Hawkins, 207 00:12:19,999 --> 00:12:22,785 and Jacob Esterline was a veteran CIA 208 00:12:22,872 --> 00:12:24,917 covert operations official. 209 00:12:25,004 --> 00:12:28,268 He was picked by Richard Bissell. 210 00:12:28,355 --> 00:12:30,357 When Kennedy was told that the CIA planned 211 00:12:30,444 --> 00:12:33,273 to land in broad daylight and have the exile force 212 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,494 kind of clamor ashore in front of 100,000 people 213 00:12:36,581 --> 00:12:38,496 in the city of Trinidad, he said, 214 00:12:38,583 --> 00:12:41,020 how are we going to disassociate ourselves 215 00:12:41,107 --> 00:12:44,197 from this if everybody sees it? 216 00:12:44,284 --> 00:12:47,331 If the United States was seen around the world 217 00:12:47,418 --> 00:12:50,551 to be boldly invading a smaller country, 218 00:12:50,638 --> 00:12:53,946 the Soviets would claim the right to invade Berlin. 219 00:12:54,033 --> 00:12:55,774 Then you'd have the circumstances 220 00:12:55,861 --> 00:12:58,255 for World War III. 221 00:13:04,174 --> 00:13:05,436 Kennedy said, can you figure out a way 222 00:13:05,523 --> 00:13:07,177 to make this "less noisy"? 223 00:13:07,264 --> 00:13:11,181 Can you have a night landing in an isolated place? 224 00:13:11,268 --> 00:13:12,747 They had to find a place that also 225 00:13:12,835 --> 00:13:16,751 had an airstrip so that they could land these planes. 226 00:13:16,839 --> 00:13:19,406 They found the Bay of Pigs. 227 00:13:19,493 --> 00:13:23,976 That didn't sound like a very good place to liberate Cuba. 228 00:13:24,063 --> 00:13:26,544 And there was only one way out 229 00:13:26,631 --> 00:13:28,807 and only one way in. 230 00:13:28,894 --> 00:13:30,548 It was going to be very difficult 231 00:13:30,635 --> 00:13:33,159 to get out of that area. 232 00:13:33,246 --> 00:13:38,034 But in a rush, they picked that location. 233 00:13:38,121 --> 00:13:41,820 The kind of screw-ups that marked the initial phases 234 00:13:41,907 --> 00:13:44,127 of the operation would be multiplied 235 00:13:44,214 --> 00:13:49,610 a hundred-fold when the invasion came in April 1961. 236 00:13:53,571 --> 00:13:56,487 [upbeat music] 237 00:13:56,574 --> 00:14:00,099 ♪ ♪ 238 00:14:00,186 --> 00:14:02,449 Meanwhile, Johnny Roselli was trying 239 00:14:02,536 --> 00:14:04,974 to juggle all of these different things at once. 240 00:14:05,061 --> 00:14:06,845 He was trying to keep an eye on what 241 00:14:06,932 --> 00:14:08,891 was going on in Hollywood. 242 00:14:08,978 --> 00:14:11,328 He was running things in Las Vegas. 243 00:14:11,415 --> 00:14:15,245 But he was also spending a lot of time down in Florida 244 00:14:15,332 --> 00:14:18,988 with the Cuban exiles planning to kill Castro. 245 00:14:22,643 --> 00:14:27,561 Back in Chicago, Sam is growing even more frustrated. 246 00:14:27,648 --> 00:14:29,912 After he goes back to Chicago, 247 00:14:29,999 --> 00:14:34,351 he's being followed by teams of FBI agents. 248 00:14:34,438 --> 00:14:37,354 [dramatic music] 249 00:14:37,441 --> 00:14:41,445 ♪ ♪ 250 00:14:41,532 --> 00:14:44,578 One of the FBI agents following Giancana 251 00:14:44,665 --> 00:14:47,451 was a guy named William Roemer. 252 00:14:50,845 --> 00:14:53,718 He was a Notre Dame graduate, big burly guy, 253 00:14:53,805 --> 00:14:57,504 trained as a lawyer, very aggressive. 254 00:14:57,591 --> 00:15:00,290 Bill was a very serious forthright guy, 255 00:15:00,377 --> 00:15:04,337 very sincere, a lion on the side of right and good. 256 00:15:04,424 --> 00:15:06,426 Chicago would have been in a lot worse place 257 00:15:06,513 --> 00:15:08,733 if it hadn't been for Bill and the other guys who worked 258 00:15:08,820 --> 00:15:12,476 with them in the Chicago office on organized crime. 259 00:15:12,563 --> 00:15:15,696 The FBI decided they needed to know more about 260 00:15:15,783 --> 00:15:19,831 what Giancana was doing so they decide to put 261 00:15:19,918 --> 00:15:23,922 a listening device in the Armory Lounge. 262 00:15:24,009 --> 00:15:26,316 It was on the outskirts of town. 263 00:15:26,403 --> 00:15:29,232 And that's where all the mob guys went to eat. 264 00:15:29,319 --> 00:15:32,191 They came out in their big limousines and Mercedes, 265 00:15:32,278 --> 00:15:35,455 and it was like home-cooked Italian food. 266 00:15:35,542 --> 00:15:38,110 Giancana always sat with his back 267 00:15:38,197 --> 00:15:41,635 to the wall and his henchmen around him. 268 00:15:41,722 --> 00:15:45,552 Giancana conducted a lot of business at the Armory. 269 00:15:45,639 --> 00:15:47,902 It was just a place where the boys would hang out 270 00:15:47,990 --> 00:15:50,601 and they would talk freely. 271 00:15:50,688 --> 00:15:53,299 [jazzy music] 272 00:15:53,386 --> 00:15:58,174 ♪ ♪ 273 00:15:58,261 --> 00:16:02,178 The FBI approached the janitor and said, 274 00:16:02,265 --> 00:16:05,355 you know, we'd like you to come down to our office 275 00:16:05,442 --> 00:16:07,313 and just make sure that you're not the guy 276 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,011 that we're looking for. 277 00:16:11,013 --> 00:16:12,536 The janitor goes downtown. 278 00:16:12,623 --> 00:16:16,583 They say, please empty your pockets. 279 00:16:16,670 --> 00:16:22,241 And when he does, it includes the keys to the Armory Lounge. 280 00:16:22,328 --> 00:16:27,420 So while the janitor is being questioned by the FBI, 281 00:16:27,507 --> 00:16:32,338 other FBI agents are making copies of those keys. 282 00:16:37,430 --> 00:16:41,956 The FBI uses those duplicate keys to open up 283 00:16:42,044 --> 00:16:46,265 the Armory Lounge and put in the device 284 00:16:46,352 --> 00:16:49,138 that they referred to as "Mo," 285 00:16:49,225 --> 00:16:51,140 that was referenced to "Mooney," 286 00:16:51,227 --> 00:16:54,404 which was the nickname of Giancana. 287 00:16:54,491 --> 00:16:56,188 They drop it behind the wall. 288 00:16:56,275 --> 00:17:01,889 No one had any idea it was there. 289 00:17:01,976 --> 00:17:04,370 By the way, utterly illegal-- 290 00:17:04,457 --> 00:17:08,461 warrantless wiretaps and buggings. 291 00:17:08,548 --> 00:17:10,550 They couldn't use it legally in court, 292 00:17:10,637 --> 00:17:12,813 but they still wanted to know what was going on 293 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:14,815 with Sam and the mob. 294 00:17:14,902 --> 00:17:19,037 [bar chatter] 295 00:17:19,124 --> 00:17:23,172 The greatest tool for Hoover was the listening device. 296 00:17:23,259 --> 00:17:25,435 And you know why that's such a great tool? 297 00:17:25,522 --> 00:17:29,178 Because you'll hear the truth. 298 00:17:29,265 --> 00:17:32,268 Hoover's great genius was to understand this. 299 00:17:32,355 --> 00:17:36,228 So Hoover finds out that Giancana is saying, 300 00:17:36,315 --> 00:17:38,361 hey, Castro is going to be gone soon. 301 00:17:42,756 --> 00:17:45,629 Then in New York-- 302 00:17:45,716 --> 00:17:49,285 Sam Giancana was presiding over an elegant dinner 303 00:17:49,372 --> 00:17:52,026 at La Scala which was the Italian restaurant 304 00:17:52,114 --> 00:17:55,378 in New York, discussed a plot 305 00:17:55,465 --> 00:17:59,077 to assassinate Fidel Castro. 306 00:17:59,164 --> 00:18:01,514 Sam emphasizes that, in fact, 307 00:18:01,601 --> 00:18:04,561 he's involved in the plot. 308 00:18:04,648 --> 00:18:10,610 Phyllis's brother-in-law is so alarmed he informs the FBI. 309 00:18:10,697 --> 00:18:14,919 Hoover begins to understand that Sam Giancana 310 00:18:15,006 --> 00:18:20,359 is not merely running rackets and prostitution and narcotics. 311 00:18:20,446 --> 00:18:25,277 He's trying to kill a foreign leader. 312 00:18:25,364 --> 00:18:28,846 Hoover starts drilling in. 313 00:18:28,933 --> 00:18:33,155 Not a sparrow will fall in Sam Giancana's world 314 00:18:33,242 --> 00:18:35,766 without Hoover knowing about it. 315 00:18:35,853 --> 00:18:39,073 [dramatic music] 316 00:18:41,554 --> 00:18:45,079 Sam Giancana is a boss in the Chicago mob. 317 00:18:45,167 --> 00:18:49,606 Tony Accardo was one of the most powerful dons in history. 318 00:18:49,693 --> 00:18:51,651 Anybody who has a nickname Joe Batters 319 00:18:51,738 --> 00:18:55,220 has got to be a dangerous person. 320 00:18:55,307 --> 00:18:57,396 [birds chirping] 321 00:18:57,483 --> 00:18:59,224 But if you would have met Accardo 322 00:18:59,311 --> 00:19:00,921 when he was an older gentleman, 323 00:19:01,008 --> 00:19:02,662 and not known who he was, 324 00:19:02,749 --> 00:19:04,708 you would not immediately have suspected him 325 00:19:04,795 --> 00:19:06,710 of secretly being a mob boss. 326 00:19:06,797 --> 00:19:09,321 [pleasant music] 327 00:19:09,408 --> 00:19:11,889 He lived in the suburbs 328 00:19:11,976 --> 00:19:14,935 and didn't call attention to himself. 329 00:19:15,022 --> 00:19:19,940 He was all about staying out of the limelight. 330 00:19:20,027 --> 00:19:21,551 And that's something he learned 331 00:19:21,638 --> 00:19:26,164 working for the first celebrity gangster. 332 00:19:26,251 --> 00:19:28,732 The lesson Accardo drew from Capone 333 00:19:28,819 --> 00:19:31,996 is celebrity gangsters don't end well... 334 00:19:34,825 --> 00:19:38,002 That the first thing you need to do in this business 335 00:19:38,089 --> 00:19:41,353 is not get any heat on you. 336 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,095 Al Capone was in trouble with the law a lot, 337 00:19:44,182 --> 00:19:47,011 but he cultivated this everyman image. 338 00:19:47,098 --> 00:19:49,535 You'd see him at baseball games talking to Babe Ruth. 339 00:19:49,622 --> 00:19:51,798 He was opening up soup kitchens. 340 00:19:51,885 --> 00:19:54,932 He was talking to the press, having press conferences. 341 00:19:55,019 --> 00:19:56,760 He draws so much attention to himself 342 00:19:56,847 --> 00:20:01,286 that he winds up going to jail on tax evasion charges. 343 00:20:01,373 --> 00:20:03,723 His reign was only seven years, 344 00:20:03,810 --> 00:20:06,944 whereas a lot of the more underground mobsters 345 00:20:07,031 --> 00:20:09,773 maintain much longer positions of power 346 00:20:09,860 --> 00:20:11,644 because they kept out of the limelight. 347 00:20:11,731 --> 00:20:13,472 [birds chirping] 348 00:20:13,559 --> 00:20:16,954 Tony Accardo is a perfect example. 349 00:20:17,041 --> 00:20:19,957 So in the '50s, Accardo wanted to become 350 00:20:20,044 --> 00:20:23,177 consigliere to the outfit. 351 00:20:23,265 --> 00:20:26,180 Tony Accardo put in Sam Giancana 352 00:20:26,268 --> 00:20:28,661 as the operating boss, which is essentially 353 00:20:28,748 --> 00:20:31,838 the organized crime equivalent of a CEO in a corporation. 354 00:20:31,925 --> 00:20:33,927 He runs it on a day to day basis. 355 00:20:34,014 --> 00:20:36,190 He, of course, still answered to Accardo. 356 00:20:39,803 --> 00:20:43,937 Accardo thought Sam Giancana would be just like him, 357 00:20:44,024 --> 00:20:46,810 almost like suburban dads who just happened to be running 358 00:20:46,897 --> 00:20:52,163 a Mafia outfit, and that he would not draw attention 359 00:20:52,250 --> 00:20:54,687 to what they were doing or to himself. 360 00:20:57,299 --> 00:21:00,171 Giancana's got this nice little bungalow house 361 00:21:00,258 --> 00:21:03,696 out in the immediate suburb of Chicago. 362 00:21:03,783 --> 00:21:08,222 And there, Giancana was known for shoveling the driveway 363 00:21:08,310 --> 00:21:11,704 when it'd snow, for mowing his own lawn... 364 00:21:11,791 --> 00:21:14,228 [chuckles] Almost like "Father Knows Best," 365 00:21:14,316 --> 00:21:16,100 Mafia style. 366 00:21:16,187 --> 00:21:18,363 Whatever he's doing, we're not supposed to know about it. 367 00:21:18,450 --> 00:21:20,887 It's a secret. 368 00:21:20,974 --> 00:21:25,022 But when Giancana's wife died, all that changed. 369 00:21:25,109 --> 00:21:28,025 [jazzy piano music] 370 00:21:28,112 --> 00:21:30,114 ♪ ♪ 371 00:21:30,201 --> 00:21:33,683 Phyllis McGuire plays in Vegas. 372 00:21:33,770 --> 00:21:38,209 He drops everything in Chicago, goes out to Vegas. 373 00:21:38,296 --> 00:21:40,603 She plays some high-end supper club or something 374 00:21:40,690 --> 00:21:42,692 in Southern California, 375 00:21:42,779 --> 00:21:45,782 he just leaves everything here, goes out there. 376 00:21:45,869 --> 00:21:48,001 Also, it's becoming well-known that Giancana 377 00:21:48,088 --> 00:21:51,440 is palling around with Frank Sinatra in Nevada. 378 00:21:51,527 --> 00:21:53,572 Frank had an attraction to Giancana 379 00:21:53,659 --> 00:21:56,009 and vice versa, kind of a showbiz attraction, 380 00:21:56,096 --> 00:21:57,489 a power attraction. 381 00:21:59,709 --> 00:22:02,451 By hanging out with the best-known singers 382 00:22:02,538 --> 00:22:06,759 Frank Sinatra and Phyllis McGuire, 383 00:22:06,846 --> 00:22:08,892 he drew a lot of attention. 384 00:22:11,068 --> 00:22:14,463 I started to learn about my father 385 00:22:14,550 --> 00:22:16,116 when I was in high school. 386 00:22:16,203 --> 00:22:18,597 My father would get up early in the morning 387 00:22:18,684 --> 00:22:23,733 and take out the articles that were in the newspaper 388 00:22:23,820 --> 00:22:28,172 so I would not read them and I would not be hurt. 389 00:22:28,259 --> 00:22:32,132 I had to sneak reading the newspapers, 390 00:22:32,219 --> 00:22:34,613 and I saw the headlines, 391 00:22:34,700 --> 00:22:38,182 you know, gangster this and mob that. 392 00:22:38,269 --> 00:22:41,664 And I was quite surprised. 393 00:22:41,751 --> 00:22:47,060 That's when all the publicity started. 394 00:22:47,147 --> 00:22:49,715 And of course Giancana's on board this 395 00:22:49,802 --> 00:22:53,850 Castro assassination plot, but the CIA didn't realize 396 00:22:53,937 --> 00:22:56,766 Giancana was somebody who was way too visible. 397 00:22:56,853 --> 00:23:00,857 It puts the plans to kill Castro at risk. 398 00:23:00,944 --> 00:23:03,729 If this secret became public knowledge, 399 00:23:03,816 --> 00:23:06,602 it would be a disaster for the country. 400 00:23:10,214 --> 00:23:11,389 [bar chatter] 401 00:23:11,476 --> 00:23:13,478 No matter where Sam went, 402 00:23:13,565 --> 00:23:16,568 the government was behind him, 403 00:23:16,655 --> 00:23:19,136 like sick little dogs running around, 404 00:23:19,223 --> 00:23:24,663 trying to find out this thing or find out that thing. 405 00:23:24,750 --> 00:23:27,927 They played golf, and the government was 406 00:23:28,014 --> 00:23:30,495 always following behind them. 407 00:23:30,582 --> 00:23:33,280 [dramatic music] 408 00:23:33,367 --> 00:23:39,548 ♪ ♪ 409 00:23:39,635 --> 00:23:43,813 There was always cars parked outside of the house. 410 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:46,337 One was a Bill Roemer, 411 00:23:46,424 --> 00:23:49,601 on my father almost 24 hours a day. 412 00:23:54,911 --> 00:23:57,696 My father used to give Bill Roemer a note-- 413 00:23:57,783 --> 00:24:01,134 going here, going here, going here, 414 00:24:01,221 --> 00:24:06,183 making it easier for Bill to get to the place first. 415 00:24:06,270 --> 00:24:10,317 The FBI pressure on Sam continues to increase. 416 00:24:10,404 --> 00:24:14,583 So he's kind of being driven a little bit nuts by it. 417 00:24:22,504 --> 00:24:25,289 It comes to a boil in Chicago. 418 00:24:28,292 --> 00:24:32,775 Sam is with Phyllis as they come through the gate. 419 00:24:32,862 --> 00:24:36,909 Who's waiting for them, but the FBI Agent Bill Roemer-- 420 00:24:36,996 --> 00:24:38,955 Sam Giancana! 421 00:24:42,349 --> 00:24:45,701 Which really angered Sam. 422 00:24:45,788 --> 00:24:51,663 Roemer starts provoking Sam. 423 00:24:51,750 --> 00:24:52,969 If he can get him to be angry, 424 00:24:53,056 --> 00:24:55,537 knowing that Phyllis McGuire is going to watch this, 425 00:24:55,624 --> 00:24:58,583 that's totally castrating him. 426 00:24:58,670 --> 00:25:01,020 Roemer makes a very public showing, 427 00:25:01,107 --> 00:25:04,633 pointing him out as a hoodlum and scourge of Chicago. 428 00:25:07,853 --> 00:25:10,595 Sam starts telling Roemer, 429 00:25:10,682 --> 00:25:12,815 you're going to regret what you did here today. 430 00:25:12,902 --> 00:25:15,078 I'm never going to forget this. 431 00:25:15,165 --> 00:25:17,907 And Roemer asked, are you threatening a federal agent? 432 00:25:22,302 --> 00:25:24,566 They just hated each other, and they went at it. 433 00:25:24,653 --> 00:25:26,524 But Giancana took the bait. 434 00:25:26,611 --> 00:25:29,527 [foreboding music] 435 00:25:29,614 --> 00:25:33,444 ♪ ♪ 436 00:25:33,531 --> 00:25:37,666 This constant tension between Roemer and Giancana 437 00:25:37,753 --> 00:25:40,103 slowly but surely is undermining 438 00:25:40,190 --> 00:25:44,368 Sam's authority in the Mafia. 439 00:25:44,455 --> 00:25:48,502 But then he sees an opportunity to gain more power 440 00:25:48,590 --> 00:25:52,550 when he meets Judy Campbell. 441 00:25:52,637 --> 00:25:55,553 [suspenseful music] 442 00:25:55,640 --> 00:26:01,603 ♪ ♪ 443 00:26:01,690 --> 00:26:04,518 Judy Campbell was a nice Catholic girl from California 444 00:26:04,606 --> 00:26:07,957 who, like so many beautiful young women then and now, 445 00:26:08,044 --> 00:26:11,874 still went to Hollywood to see what could happen. 446 00:26:11,961 --> 00:26:14,572 Judy was always adorable and charming 447 00:26:14,659 --> 00:26:18,445 and delightful, everybody liked her. 448 00:26:18,532 --> 00:26:20,752 There was an infernal triangle 449 00:26:20,839 --> 00:26:25,278 between Judy Campbell, Sam Giancana, and John Kennedy, 450 00:26:25,365 --> 00:26:27,846 soon to be the president of the United States. 451 00:26:30,849 --> 00:26:35,114 Where it all began was with Sinatra. 452 00:26:35,201 --> 00:26:36,942 [jazzy music] 453 00:26:37,029 --> 00:26:38,988 First, Frank meets Judy Campbell 454 00:26:39,075 --> 00:26:42,469 at an Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills, Puccini. 455 00:26:42,556 --> 00:26:45,429 And they then become close. 456 00:26:45,516 --> 00:26:46,952 Shortly after that, 457 00:26:47,039 --> 00:26:51,653 Frank is in Las Vegas shooting "Ocean's 11." 458 00:26:51,740 --> 00:26:53,002 You're no hoodlum. 459 00:26:53,089 --> 00:26:54,438 You got no connection with the underworld. 460 00:26:54,525 --> 00:26:56,135 Hoods are always mixed up with other hoods. 461 00:26:58,094 --> 00:27:01,314 John Kennedy stops by Las Vegas. 462 00:27:01,401 --> 00:27:03,534 He's campaigning for president. 463 00:27:03,621 --> 00:27:06,537 And one night while they're shooting the movie, 464 00:27:06,624 --> 00:27:09,801 Frank has a big party for Jack Kennedy. 465 00:27:09,888 --> 00:27:13,500 Senator John Kennedy from the great state of Massachusetts. 466 00:27:13,587 --> 00:27:14,763 Yeah, John. 467 00:27:14,850 --> 00:27:17,504 [cheers and applause] 468 00:27:17,591 --> 00:27:21,291 That is the night that Frank introduces the candidate 469 00:27:21,378 --> 00:27:23,119 to Judy Campbell. 470 00:27:26,470 --> 00:27:29,516 What Frank is essentially doing at this point 471 00:27:29,603 --> 00:27:31,518 is pimping out Judy Campbell. 472 00:27:31,605 --> 00:27:35,566 He is solidifying his hold on power, 473 00:27:35,653 --> 00:27:37,524 his hold on Jack Kennedy, 474 00:27:37,611 --> 00:27:42,791 by providing him with this glorious young woman. 475 00:27:42,878 --> 00:27:46,620 A very dark strain of the worst kind 476 00:27:46,708 --> 00:27:51,277 of toxic masculinity runs throughout this entire thing 477 00:27:51,364 --> 00:27:55,368 and drives these people in a lot of ways. 478 00:27:55,455 --> 00:27:57,980 It's at the root of so much of history. 479 00:27:58,067 --> 00:28:00,504 It's right at the very center of history. 480 00:28:01,461 --> 00:28:04,290 And this is especially true in the American government. 481 00:28:04,377 --> 00:28:07,293 [dramatic brass music] 482 00:28:07,380 --> 00:28:11,341 Hate to say it, but a lot of people that accomplished a lot 483 00:28:11,428 --> 00:28:12,690 are horny. [laughs] 484 00:28:12,777 --> 00:28:14,779 You know, they are driven. 485 00:28:14,866 --> 00:28:17,564 They have a thing driving them. 486 00:28:17,651 --> 00:28:19,262 [indistinct chatter] 487 00:28:19,349 --> 00:28:22,613 [soft music] 488 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:27,661 So Judy Campbell and JFK become lovers. 489 00:28:27,749 --> 00:28:32,014 When Jack Kennedy takes office in January of '61, 490 00:28:32,101 --> 00:28:35,582 Judy Campbell begins making surreptitious visits 491 00:28:35,669 --> 00:28:40,239 to the White House. 492 00:28:40,326 --> 00:28:43,721 I knew she was having an affair with Jack Kennedy because 493 00:28:43,808 --> 00:28:46,680 a friend of mine knew Judy very well. 494 00:28:46,768 --> 00:28:48,813 And I remember being in Washington, D.C. 495 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:50,641 And I said, well, where's Judy? 496 00:28:50,728 --> 00:28:53,035 Over at the White House, what, doing her laundry? 497 00:28:53,122 --> 00:28:54,819 And he laughed. 498 00:28:54,906 --> 00:28:58,170 [sly music] 499 00:28:58,257 --> 00:29:00,782 So that is two legs of the triangle, 500 00:29:00,869 --> 00:29:02,479 but the third leg doesn't happen 501 00:29:02,566 --> 00:29:06,483 until Sinatra introduces Judy Campbell 502 00:29:06,570 --> 00:29:08,615 to Sam Giancana. 503 00:29:08,702 --> 00:29:10,574 This is right about the same time 504 00:29:10,661 --> 00:29:13,098 that Giancana meets Phyllis McGuire, 505 00:29:13,185 --> 00:29:15,057 but it was a very different relationship. 506 00:29:15,144 --> 00:29:18,408 Because, with Judy Campbell, he's not in love. 507 00:29:18,495 --> 00:29:20,018 He sees a gold mine. 508 00:29:20,105 --> 00:29:23,195 He sees not only a beautiful young woman 509 00:29:23,282 --> 00:29:26,677 whom he can utilize sexually, 510 00:29:26,764 --> 00:29:29,854 but power-wise, blackmailing-wise, 511 00:29:29,941 --> 00:29:31,682 because he knows that Judy Campbell 512 00:29:31,769 --> 00:29:34,250 is sleeping with the president of the United States. 513 00:29:34,337 --> 00:29:35,904 [woman moaning] 514 00:29:35,991 --> 00:29:38,123 So an affair begins between 515 00:29:38,210 --> 00:29:41,257 Sam Giancana and Judy Campbell. 516 00:29:41,344 --> 00:29:46,479 And this unholy triangle begins... 517 00:29:46,566 --> 00:29:50,527 at this extremely fraught moment in world history 518 00:29:50,614 --> 00:29:53,399 when the Communist world is continuing 519 00:29:53,486 --> 00:29:55,314 to threaten the Western world. 520 00:29:55,401 --> 00:29:57,882 The communists built a wall along the Soviet sector. 521 00:29:57,969 --> 00:30:00,058 And in violation of existing agreements, 522 00:30:00,145 --> 00:30:02,104 split the city in two. 523 00:30:05,063 --> 00:30:09,676 This is a matter of national security. 524 00:30:09,763 --> 00:30:12,679 [dramatic music] 525 00:30:12,766 --> 00:30:15,334 ♪ ♪ 526 00:30:15,421 --> 00:30:18,337 The potential for blackmailing a president 527 00:30:18,424 --> 00:30:21,645 by the mob, incalculable. 528 00:30:21,732 --> 00:30:24,561 ♪ ♪ 529 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,568 It's Sam's jealousy... [glass shatters] 530 00:30:31,655 --> 00:30:34,832 Over his other girlfriend Phyllis McGuire 531 00:30:34,919 --> 00:30:36,878 that led to the bugging incident 532 00:30:36,965 --> 00:30:41,447 with Rowan that eventually leads the FBI onto his trail. 533 00:30:41,534 --> 00:30:44,624 The FBI starts asking questions 534 00:30:44,711 --> 00:30:47,497 and it traces back to Maheu. 535 00:30:47,584 --> 00:30:51,893 The FBI confronts Maheu. 536 00:30:51,980 --> 00:30:54,156 Maheu says, I really don't want to tell you 537 00:30:54,243 --> 00:30:56,114 what this is all about. 538 00:30:56,201 --> 00:30:59,552 But eventually, because of the FBI pressure, 539 00:30:59,639 --> 00:31:02,425 Maheu coughs up the CIA's mission 540 00:31:02,512 --> 00:31:05,384 to kill Castro and also the involvement 541 00:31:05,471 --> 00:31:08,126 of Giancana and Roselli. 542 00:31:08,213 --> 00:31:11,521 Hoover had put all of the pieces together. 543 00:31:11,608 --> 00:31:17,570 ♪ ♪ 544 00:31:17,657 --> 00:31:19,094 The CIA Mafia plot 545 00:31:19,181 --> 00:31:22,662 was a gift on a golden platter 546 00:31:22,749 --> 00:31:24,708 to J. Edgar Hoover. 547 00:31:24,795 --> 00:31:28,625 All his life, he had a bone to pick with the CIA. 548 00:31:28,712 --> 00:31:30,453 Hoover was forever railing 549 00:31:30,540 --> 00:31:34,936 that the CIA was a pathetic bunch 550 00:31:35,023 --> 00:31:38,026 of pipe-smoking college professors, 551 00:31:38,113 --> 00:31:40,637 maybe Communist sympathizers, 552 00:31:40,724 --> 00:31:44,206 who couldn't find their ass with two hands and a roadmap. 553 00:31:44,293 --> 00:31:47,209 [jazzy music] 554 00:31:47,296 --> 00:31:50,560 ♪ ♪ 555 00:31:50,647 --> 00:31:55,217 But the FBI wanted to know who is Johnny Roselli. 556 00:31:55,304 --> 00:31:58,481 Hoover gives marching orders to find out more. 557 00:32:02,224 --> 00:32:04,052 So while Johnny's overseeing things 558 00:32:04,139 --> 00:32:06,837 for the outfit in Hollywood, 559 00:32:06,924 --> 00:32:10,188 he realizes that he's becoming a target of the FBI as well 560 00:32:10,275 --> 00:32:13,322 and that he's being followed. 561 00:32:13,409 --> 00:32:17,239 It's a lot more fun for the FBI agents following Johnny. 562 00:32:17,326 --> 00:32:20,242 [energetic swing music] 563 00:32:20,329 --> 00:32:25,073 ♪ ♪ 564 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,859 Every time, it seemed that he had a new beautiful blonde 565 00:32:28,946 --> 00:32:31,209 sitting right next to him. 566 00:32:31,296 --> 00:32:33,733 He would go to Romanoff's, Cheney's. 567 00:32:33,820 --> 00:32:36,954 He would stop at the Friars Club. 568 00:32:37,041 --> 00:32:40,349 But also, Johnny and Judy Campbell 569 00:32:40,436 --> 00:32:43,004 were good friends. 570 00:32:43,091 --> 00:32:45,049 I think she probably was somewhat enamored 571 00:32:45,136 --> 00:32:48,444 by the charisma of some of these guys. 572 00:32:48,531 --> 00:32:51,969 And I think she got seduced into being a courier. 573 00:32:52,056 --> 00:32:54,754 Judy knew that the FBI was trailing Sam and Johnny 574 00:32:54,841 --> 00:32:56,582 and had bugged their phones. 575 00:32:56,669 --> 00:32:59,629 So she'd pass messages to help them communicate. 576 00:32:59,716 --> 00:33:03,894 But little did she know, the content of these messages, 577 00:33:03,981 --> 00:33:05,852 at least part of the time, 578 00:33:05,939 --> 00:33:08,725 dealt with the plot to kill Castro. 579 00:33:08,812 --> 00:33:12,294 So Judy becomes part of the FBI's dragnet, too. 580 00:33:12,381 --> 00:33:15,297 [dramatic music] 581 00:33:15,384 --> 00:33:21,259 ♪ ♪ 582 00:33:21,346 --> 00:33:23,870 The FBI actually sends two burglars 583 00:33:23,957 --> 00:33:25,307 to Judy Campbell's apartment 584 00:33:25,394 --> 00:33:28,614 to try and dig up evidence on these guys. 585 00:33:37,362 --> 00:33:39,147 Judy Campbell goes back to her apartment 586 00:33:39,234 --> 00:33:43,194 and these two guys flashed their badges. 587 00:33:43,281 --> 00:33:44,500 She starts screaming, 588 00:33:44,587 --> 00:33:47,633 get out, get out of my apartment. 589 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:52,551 ♪ ♪ 590 00:33:52,638 --> 00:33:54,858 Judy goes back and tells Roselli. 591 00:33:54,945 --> 00:33:59,167 Johnny says not to tell the FBI anything, 592 00:33:59,254 --> 00:34:04,259 but she recklessly at times makes impulsive decisions. 593 00:34:04,346 --> 00:34:08,176 In fact, she makes phone calls to her lover, John Kennedy, 594 00:34:08,263 --> 00:34:11,570 from Johnny Roselli's apartment. 595 00:34:11,657 --> 00:34:13,746 ♪ ♪ 596 00:34:13,833 --> 00:34:17,576 [phones ringing] 597 00:34:17,663 --> 00:34:19,274 Eventually, there are approximately 598 00:34:19,361 --> 00:34:22,277 70 different phone calls that were made 599 00:34:22,364 --> 00:34:26,368 between Judy Campbell and John F. Kennedy's office. 600 00:34:28,283 --> 00:34:31,199 I mean, this was catnip for J. Edgar Hoover 601 00:34:31,286 --> 00:34:34,811 to find out that Sam Giancana's girlfriend 602 00:34:34,898 --> 00:34:37,466 is also the girlfriend 603 00:34:37,553 --> 00:34:40,817 of the president of the United States. 604 00:34:43,124 --> 00:34:45,996 Between the Kennedys and Hoover, 605 00:34:46,083 --> 00:34:48,259 there's very little love lost. 606 00:34:48,346 --> 00:34:50,174 Hoover had reason to be concerned 607 00:34:50,261 --> 00:34:52,698 about his job security. 608 00:34:52,785 --> 00:34:56,180 Hoover is looking for leverage with the president. 609 00:34:56,267 --> 00:34:59,052 He has it. 610 00:34:59,140 --> 00:35:02,360 And there would come a time when Hoover would use 611 00:35:02,447 --> 00:35:05,668 the information he had gathered as a weapon. 612 00:35:05,755 --> 00:35:08,671 [tense music] 613 00:35:08,758 --> 00:35:15,330 ♪ ♪ 614 00:35:15,417 --> 00:35:20,291 As January turned to February, and February turned to March, 615 00:35:20,378 --> 00:35:25,731 the Mafia had not found a way to kill Fidel Castro. 616 00:35:25,818 --> 00:35:29,996 And yet in the actual run-up to the Bay of Pigs invasion, 617 00:35:30,083 --> 00:35:32,999 things started to steamroller and get out of control. 618 00:35:35,045 --> 00:35:37,613 Richard Bissell, who oversaw 619 00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:40,093 the Bay of Pigs invasion project, 620 00:35:40,181 --> 00:35:44,489 had accommodated all of President Kennedy's doubts. 621 00:35:44,576 --> 00:35:48,145 But what became the big sticking point 622 00:35:48,232 --> 00:35:53,759 was whether the U.S. military would provide air cover. 623 00:35:53,846 --> 00:35:57,415 Kennedy didn't want it to look like it was a joint endeavor 624 00:35:57,502 --> 00:36:00,375 with the U.S. military. 625 00:36:00,462 --> 00:36:04,596 Bissell assured them this wouldn't happen. 626 00:36:04,683 --> 00:36:08,426 So Kennedy approved of the Bay of Pigs operation, 627 00:36:08,513 --> 00:36:10,646 but there would be no U.S. fighter jets 628 00:36:10,733 --> 00:36:14,258 helping the Cubans that the CIA had trained. 629 00:36:16,782 --> 00:36:22,658 ♪ ♪ 630 00:36:22,745 --> 00:36:24,268 Jacob Esterline and Jack Hawkins 631 00:36:24,355 --> 00:36:26,662 who were involved in the planning 632 00:36:26,749 --> 00:36:29,578 became so convinced that the operation 633 00:36:29,665 --> 00:36:31,754 was going to fail because the president 634 00:36:31,841 --> 00:36:34,844 wasn't authorizing air cover. 635 00:36:34,931 --> 00:36:37,368 They went to Richard Bissell to announce, 636 00:36:37,455 --> 00:36:40,937 we're resigning from the operation. 637 00:36:41,024 --> 00:36:43,461 Bissell said, look, if you resign now, 638 00:36:43,548 --> 00:36:45,376 we're not going to call this thing off 639 00:36:45,463 --> 00:36:46,986 and it's far more likely to fail 640 00:36:47,073 --> 00:36:49,162 without you than with you. 641 00:36:51,904 --> 00:36:54,167 Bissell was able to persuade them. 642 00:36:54,255 --> 00:36:57,519 They had to keep on. 643 00:36:57,606 --> 00:37:00,043 Bissell says, you tell me what you need. 644 00:37:00,130 --> 00:37:01,392 I'll go to the president. 645 00:37:01,479 --> 00:37:04,177 So, tell them what they need. 646 00:37:04,265 --> 00:37:05,918 Bissell doesn't go to the president, 647 00:37:06,005 --> 00:37:09,052 but he goes to high officials around the president. 648 00:37:09,139 --> 00:37:11,794 He misrepresents 649 00:37:11,881 --> 00:37:16,494 how much he's able to get back to them to mollify them. 650 00:37:16,581 --> 00:37:20,193 Bissell was lying up the chain of command, 651 00:37:20,281 --> 00:37:23,327 and Bissell was lying down the chain of command, 652 00:37:23,414 --> 00:37:28,201 and Bissell was lying to himself. 653 00:37:28,289 --> 00:37:31,030 The CIA, probably Allen Dulles, 654 00:37:31,117 --> 00:37:34,033 calculated once these people were pinned down on the beach 655 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,429 by a 30,000-person army-- and they will be pinned down-- 656 00:37:38,516 --> 00:37:41,302 this little president of ours, this newbie, 657 00:37:41,389 --> 00:37:44,827 is going to go to their aid and we know he will. 658 00:38:21,777 --> 00:38:25,650 The assault has begun on the dictatorship of Fidel Castro. 659 00:38:25,737 --> 00:38:27,696 Cuban Army pilots opened the first phase 660 00:38:27,783 --> 00:38:29,393 of organized revolt with bombing raids 661 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,395 on three military bases. 662 00:38:31,482 --> 00:38:35,486 [jets whooshing] 663 00:38:35,573 --> 00:38:38,097 To prepare for this invasion, 664 00:38:38,184 --> 00:38:41,797 preliminary airstrikes by Cuban exile pilots took place, 665 00:38:41,884 --> 00:38:45,801 intended to take out all of Fidel's planes. 666 00:38:45,888 --> 00:38:47,977 They failed to take out the Cuban Air Force. 667 00:38:51,023 --> 00:38:54,070 [speaking Spanish] 668 00:39:09,607 --> 00:39:13,045 [dramatic music] 669 00:39:13,132 --> 00:39:15,570 ♪ ♪ 670 00:39:30,106 --> 00:39:32,848 [speaking Spanish] 671 00:39:59,701 --> 00:40:02,573 There's this huge fight that takes place. 672 00:40:04,183 --> 00:40:06,969 Landings were affected by rebels at several places 673 00:40:07,056 --> 00:40:08,753 on the Cuban Coast. 674 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,322 And the rebellion against the redskins dictator was on. 675 00:40:12,409 --> 00:40:14,150 Castro's army repelled-- 676 00:40:14,237 --> 00:40:17,196 Sam and Johnny had hoped that an assassination attempt 677 00:40:17,283 --> 00:40:19,764 on Fidel Castro would come through 678 00:40:19,851 --> 00:40:23,594 before the Bay of Pigs invasion. 679 00:40:23,681 --> 00:40:25,466 But Johnny gets a message to call 680 00:40:25,553 --> 00:40:29,121 James O'Connell at the CIA. 681 00:40:29,208 --> 00:40:31,080 He gets bad news. 682 00:40:31,167 --> 00:40:33,082 The operation is off. 683 00:40:33,169 --> 00:40:36,999 [tense music] 684 00:40:37,086 --> 00:40:38,827 Things are a mess. 685 00:40:38,914 --> 00:40:41,090 All these Cuban exiles that have been trained 686 00:40:41,177 --> 00:40:44,441 in Florida and other places, 687 00:40:44,528 --> 00:40:46,965 they're losing their lives. 688 00:40:47,052 --> 00:40:49,838 ♪ ♪ 689 00:40:49,925 --> 00:40:52,667 [speaking Spanish] 690 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,726 Castro had majority popular support. 691 00:41:08,813 --> 00:41:12,556 The CIA failed to understand this. 692 00:41:12,643 --> 00:41:15,298 This was a very poor reading 693 00:41:15,385 --> 00:41:20,521 of the state of mind of the Cuban people. 694 00:41:20,608 --> 00:41:23,828 Without air cover, the Cuban exiles 695 00:41:23,915 --> 00:41:27,179 are left to their own devices there on the Bay of Pigs. 696 00:41:27,266 --> 00:41:30,182 [somber music] 697 00:41:30,269 --> 00:41:33,490 ♪ ♪ 698 00:41:33,577 --> 00:41:35,666 Richard Bissell believed Kennedy 699 00:41:35,753 --> 00:41:39,061 would give him what he wanted when the emergency happened. 700 00:41:39,148 --> 00:41:40,802 But every one of Kennedy's answers is a no. 701 00:41:40,889 --> 00:41:42,325 Can I take in U.S. Air Force planes? 702 00:41:42,412 --> 00:41:43,935 No. 703 00:41:44,022 --> 00:41:45,502 Can I launch planes off of our aircraft carriers? 704 00:41:45,589 --> 00:41:47,591 No. It's a no, no, no. 705 00:41:50,333 --> 00:41:52,248 Jack Kennedy would say, no. 706 00:41:52,335 --> 00:41:54,946 Right in the midst of the horror of everybody 707 00:41:55,033 --> 00:41:56,861 getting killed on the beach, and he's just going to say, 708 00:41:56,948 --> 00:41:58,689 I told you before, I'm not putting 709 00:41:58,776 --> 00:42:00,343 the United States at war with Cuba. 710 00:42:00,430 --> 00:42:01,910 I'm not doing it. 711 00:42:01,997 --> 00:42:06,828 Bissell said, I never knew he was this tough. 712 00:42:06,915 --> 00:42:08,351 It was a poor reading 713 00:42:08,438 --> 00:42:11,963 of the state of mind of the U.S. President. 714 00:42:14,009 --> 00:42:15,793 One book about the Bay of Pigs 715 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,882 is called "A Perfect Failure." 716 00:42:17,969 --> 00:42:20,450 It's like every decision tree moment, 717 00:42:20,537 --> 00:42:22,539 the wrong decision was made. 718 00:42:22,626 --> 00:42:24,236 It was a complete disaster. 719 00:42:24,323 --> 00:42:27,805 It showed how impotent 720 00:42:27,892 --> 00:42:32,027 the CIA and the U.S. government was 721 00:42:32,114 --> 00:42:34,899 when it came to dealing with a issue 722 00:42:34,986 --> 00:42:36,727 90 miles off its shore. 723 00:42:38,294 --> 00:42:41,340 [speaking Spanish] 724 00:42:46,824 --> 00:42:49,131 More than 1,100 Cuban exiles 725 00:42:49,218 --> 00:42:53,918 were eventually captured by Castro's forces. 726 00:43:04,059 --> 00:43:07,279 One of the reasons that the invasion failed so miserably 727 00:43:07,366 --> 00:43:10,500 is Castro had that exile community 728 00:43:10,587 --> 00:43:12,328 completely penetrated. 729 00:43:12,415 --> 00:43:16,158 [indistinct chatter] 730 00:43:16,245 --> 00:43:18,116 Castro knew not only that the invasion was coming 731 00:43:18,203 --> 00:43:21,903 but when it was coming, where the people were training. 732 00:43:21,990 --> 00:43:23,818 Meanwhile, in Havana, 733 00:43:23,905 --> 00:43:26,603 expecting crowds await the first appearance of Castro 734 00:43:26,690 --> 00:43:28,257 since the invasion began. 735 00:43:28,344 --> 00:43:30,302 He takes to the air for a 4 and 1/2 hour 736 00:43:30,389 --> 00:43:33,741 vituperative attack on the United States. 737 00:44:04,815 --> 00:44:07,600 [speaking Spanish] 738 00:44:36,107 --> 00:44:38,588 The Bay of Pigs added to his charisma 739 00:44:38,675 --> 00:44:41,330 as the savior of the Cuban nation. 740 00:44:41,417 --> 00:44:45,290 It solidified support behind Castro like no other event. 741 00:44:47,684 --> 00:44:51,906 [dramatic music] 742 00:44:51,993 --> 00:44:54,909 With the Castro government completely victorious 743 00:44:54,996 --> 00:44:57,433 over the invading rebels, there is despair and confusion 744 00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,262 among the relatives of the insurgents. 745 00:45:03,134 --> 00:45:04,962 Johnny was particularly upset 746 00:45:05,049 --> 00:45:08,183 to find out that his friend Manuel Artime 747 00:45:08,270 --> 00:45:10,054 was part of the invasion, 748 00:45:10,141 --> 00:45:13,841 and he was also taken prisoner at the Bay of Pigs. 749 00:45:13,928 --> 00:45:17,018 With Castro claiming the capture of 500 invaders 750 00:45:17,105 --> 00:45:19,542 and threatening them all with the firing squad, 751 00:45:19,629 --> 00:45:22,763 these weeping women see no chance for their loved ones. 752 00:45:22,850 --> 00:45:25,722 It looked clear that he would be lined up 753 00:45:25,809 --> 00:45:28,246 at a firing squad and killed. 754 00:45:28,333 --> 00:45:30,858 [gunshot] 755 00:45:32,381 --> 00:45:34,513 Johnny's determined more than ever 756 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,907 to try to go after Castro. 757 00:45:44,262 --> 00:45:46,134 The Bay of Pigs disaster 758 00:45:46,221 --> 00:45:49,615 was a military and diplomatic defeat for the new president. 759 00:45:49,702 --> 00:45:52,967 It was such a gigantic debacle 760 00:45:53,054 --> 00:45:55,752 that it's hard to envision how a few fighter jets 761 00:45:55,839 --> 00:45:58,146 would have made a difference. 762 00:45:58,233 --> 00:46:00,452 A small group of exiles 763 00:46:00,539 --> 00:46:02,803 just wasn't going to ever be able 764 00:46:02,890 --> 00:46:06,894 to defeat the Cuban military. 765 00:46:06,981 --> 00:46:10,506 The CIA had far exceeded its own capabilities 766 00:46:10,593 --> 00:46:13,161 and had misled the president of the United States. 767 00:46:13,248 --> 00:46:18,166 But the CIA had the perfect excuse. 768 00:46:18,253 --> 00:46:21,038 This incredibly difficult choice, 769 00:46:21,125 --> 00:46:23,693 and if it's an important issue, it's going to be in every case, 770 00:46:23,780 --> 00:46:28,002 the president's choice. 771 00:46:28,089 --> 00:46:30,265 The CIA said, you didn't give us what we needed. 772 00:46:30,352 --> 00:46:32,702 If we had just had those fighter jets, 773 00:46:32,789 --> 00:46:34,878 we would have won. 774 00:46:34,965 --> 00:46:38,012 He stabbed this army in the back. 775 00:46:38,099 --> 00:46:41,015 He didn't have the cojones 776 00:46:41,102 --> 00:46:45,846 to do what was necessary to make this work. 777 00:46:45,933 --> 00:46:47,499 There were Cubans that 778 00:46:47,586 --> 00:46:49,458 thought that Jack Kennedy was a traitor. 779 00:46:49,545 --> 00:46:52,461 They felt that the Bay of Pigs was an actual betrayal. 780 00:46:52,548 --> 00:46:53,766 It was treason. 781 00:46:53,854 --> 00:46:56,030 There were Cubans who talked in Miami 782 00:46:56,117 --> 00:46:58,467 about the fact that he should be dead. 783 00:46:58,554 --> 00:47:01,949 After that, everybody hated Kennedy. 784 00:47:02,036 --> 00:47:05,213 They had emotions that they were going to go back to Cuba 785 00:47:05,300 --> 00:47:08,390 and that was ripped out of them. 786 00:47:08,477 --> 00:47:12,655 They were all Democrats and they all became Republicans. 787 00:47:12,742 --> 00:47:13,961 Ladies and gentlemen, 788 00:47:14,048 --> 00:47:17,094 the president of the United States. 789 00:47:17,181 --> 00:47:19,444 Kennedy dramatically took responsibility 790 00:47:19,531 --> 00:47:20,576 for the failure-- 791 00:47:20,663 --> 00:47:23,100 There's an old saying that 792 00:47:23,187 --> 00:47:26,060 victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. 793 00:47:26,147 --> 00:47:30,716 Basically saying I am the lone individual responsible 794 00:47:30,803 --> 00:47:32,066 for whatever happened. 795 00:47:32,153 --> 00:47:33,502 He refused to actually say what happened, 796 00:47:33,589 --> 00:47:35,330 but took responsibility for it. 797 00:47:35,417 --> 00:47:38,289 In view of the fact that we're taking a propaganda 798 00:47:38,376 --> 00:47:42,206 lambasting around the world, why is it not useful, sir, 799 00:47:42,293 --> 00:47:46,167 for us to explore with you the real facts behind this 800 00:47:46,254 --> 00:47:48,169 or our motivations? 801 00:47:48,256 --> 00:47:51,650 Well, I think an answer to your question that 802 00:47:51,737 --> 00:47:56,003 we have to make a judgment as to, uh, 803 00:47:56,090 --> 00:47:59,223 how much we can usefully say 804 00:47:59,310 --> 00:48:01,965 that would aid the interest of the United States. 805 00:48:02,052 --> 00:48:05,099 One of the problems of a free society, 806 00:48:05,186 --> 00:48:08,580 problem not met by a dictatorship, 807 00:48:08,667 --> 00:48:12,193 is this problem of information. 808 00:48:14,064 --> 00:48:16,937 So often, the American tragedy 809 00:48:17,024 --> 00:48:19,287 isn't about what happens, 810 00:48:19,374 --> 00:48:22,725 but what you do to prevent the thing from happening. 811 00:48:22,812 --> 00:48:24,727 You make this huge mistake. 812 00:48:24,814 --> 00:48:28,035 This is what Vietnam was. 813 00:48:28,122 --> 00:48:30,428 This is what Watergate was. 814 00:48:30,515 --> 00:48:33,823 This is what the Iraq war was. 815 00:48:33,910 --> 00:48:35,390 This is what the Bay of Pigs was. 816 00:48:35,477 --> 00:48:38,262 [tense music] 817 00:48:38,349 --> 00:48:40,830 Kennedy not only was angry at himself, 818 00:48:40,917 --> 00:48:43,180 but he was angry at the CIA. 819 00:48:43,267 --> 00:48:45,400 There were reports that he called them... 820 00:48:45,487 --> 00:48:48,794 "Those CIA bastards." 821 00:48:48,881 --> 00:48:51,928 The president, in the wake of the Bay of Pigs, 822 00:48:52,015 --> 00:48:56,802 wanted to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces 823 00:48:56,889 --> 00:49:00,589 and scatter it to the winds. 824 00:49:00,676 --> 00:49:06,421 Jack Kennedy said, I will not be played with by the CIA. 825 00:49:06,508 --> 00:49:10,381 And henceforth, what came later reflected that. 826 00:49:10,468 --> 00:49:14,298 He fired the people responsible at the CIA. 827 00:49:14,385 --> 00:49:16,822 Allen Dulles was given a mandate to retire. 828 00:49:16,909 --> 00:49:19,303 Bissell was fired. 829 00:49:19,390 --> 00:49:24,352 ♪ ♪ 830 00:49:24,439 --> 00:49:26,484 And that's when Jack Kennedy started to basically 831 00:49:26,571 --> 00:49:29,705 put Bobby in charge of the CIA. 832 00:49:29,792 --> 00:49:31,924 The Kennedy brothers were furious. 833 00:49:32,012 --> 00:49:34,144 They were used to winning, not losing. 834 00:49:34,231 --> 00:49:37,930 They were very competitive individuals. 835 00:49:38,018 --> 00:49:43,414 This little podunk country had dealt us embarrassing blow, 836 00:49:43,501 --> 00:49:46,113 not just to the CIA, but to the new young 837 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,506 Kennedy administration in front of the entire world. 838 00:49:48,593 --> 00:49:52,206 They really were, in some ways, out for revenge on Castro. 839 00:49:54,425 --> 00:49:56,123 In May of 1961, 840 00:49:56,210 --> 00:49:59,082 the White House commissioned a report, 841 00:49:59,169 --> 00:50:02,520 and it makes a very direct statement. 842 00:50:02,607 --> 00:50:05,741 There is no living with Castro. 843 00:50:05,828 --> 00:50:07,047 There's no living with this guy. 844 00:50:07,134 --> 00:50:08,613 Do you get it? 845 00:50:08,700 --> 00:50:10,267 That's the message. 846 00:50:10,354 --> 00:50:11,616 That's our policy. 847 00:50:11,703 --> 00:50:13,966 That's where our administration stands. 848 00:50:14,054 --> 00:50:15,968 There's no living with Castro. 849 00:50:16,056 --> 00:50:19,320 ♪ ♪ 850 00:50:21,626 --> 00:50:25,626 ♪ ♪