The FBI and the Mafia in the 20th Century

There's definitely some truth to this idea that Hoover was a little behind the times particularly on thinking of the mafia as a kind of national coordinated syndicate of crime organizations so that is true. But I think there are two pieces of the organized crime story that do give Hoover a little more credit than he's often given and they involve John Kennedy and Sam Giancana who were sharing a girlfriend in the early 1960s. There's no question that there is an escalation under Robert Kennedy but I think Hoover both had a more nuanced view of the whole thing and the FBI was doing a little more than people okay they'll give them credit forOkay that's very now now I want to kind of get