Searching for Information on John D. Sullivan

Cold weather is great for reading books. And I've been holed up for the past week doing just that while trying to learn more about John D. Sullivan, a Vicksburg, Miss. private detective and former FBI agent, who "committed suicide" Oct. 23, 1966, three years after the assassination of JFK.

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El tiempo frío es grande para los libros de la lectura. Y para la última semana intenta aprender más sobre Juan D. Sullivan, un Vicksburg, Mississippi detective privado y agente anterior de FBI, que “suicidio confiado” Oct. 23, 1966, tres años después del asesinato de JFK.Por coincidencia, el Sr. Sullivan fue un empleado de Guy Banister de Nueva Orleans y Banister fue un empleado de FBI
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Sullivan, who often performed contract work for the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a hunting accident -- shooting himself in the groin with a rifle and then bleeding to death(no kidding).

By coincidence, Mr. Sullivan had been working under contract for Guy Banister of New Orleans.

For those who do not recall Banister, this former FBI agent in 1963 began working for Mafia criminal defense lawyer G. Wray Gill and Gill's client, Carlos Marcello.

Marcello was the New Orleans-based Godfather of the American Mafia Family whose operations were centered in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas.

Bannister's involvement with Marcello centered on attempts to block Marcello's deportation, ordered by Robert F. Kennedy.

"Upon being named Attorney General by his brother, RFK had his agents arrest Carlos Marcello and deport the Godfather to the country of his alleged birth, Guatemala. Literally dumped into the jungles of South America, Marcello somehow fought his way out of this dilemma, possibly with the help of pilot David Ferrie, and soon returned to the United States. Once back home in the swamps of Louisiana, the Godfather reportedly vowed Vengeance against the Kennedys, uttering the following Sicilian curse: "LIVARSI NA PIETRA DI LA SCARPA!" (rough translation: "Take the stone from my shoe!")."

Did Sullivan know too much? Some who were close to the Mississippian believe this is so.

Anyone out there with information on Sullivan? Pictures?


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Early Sov Comm report on Clarksdale filed by Zack J. VanLandingham

Landingham was a retired FBI agent.

Sullivan running for Cohoma County Sheriff

Sullivan had frequent contact with U.S. Senator James O. Eastland

Soon after the Kennedy assassination, Sullivan suggested the Sovereignty Commission hire Guy Bannister [sic] to beef up the commission's work.

When Sullivan died, the Sovereignty Commission wanted his records ...

Oops, Mrs. Sullivan "burned" his files ...

Spying on the Mennonites for the state's General Legislative Investigative Committee

Who Planned JFK's Assassination?

In his fascinating book on the JFK assassination, Michael Collins Piper writes in Final Judgment that Carlos Marcello "has become a favorite target for JFK assassination researchers who like to claim that 'The Mafia Killed JFK'."

But Piper asserts that Marcello was only "one cog" in the Meyer Lansky Syndicate. "[Marcello's] key placement in New Orleans -- scene of much of the pre-assassination planning -- makes him the perfect fall guy...There's a lot more to the Marcello story that meets the eye."
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Here's an interesting Marcello link in the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission Files.

*Final Judgment: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy

Legacy of Secrecy: New Info RFK, JFK, MLK

Blogging from the JFK Lancer annual meeting: Author Lamar Waldron is talking about links to JFK and RFK assassinations to mobster Carlos Marcello. Says new documents to be linked to www.maryferrell.org and are on his book site at legacyofsecret.com.

Found that FBI targeted more than a dozen of Marcello associates and family members but Marcello's name is never mentioned in the Warren Commission report.

Waldron has now found evidence of Marcello involvement in MLK using Joseph Peltier of Quinton, Georgia. James Earl Ray went to Atlanta before leaving the country. Why? To ask for Peltier's help, Waldron says.

All that secrecy of 1963 and JFK assassination boomeranged against MLK.

Waldron wants all assassination records made open now. "We need hearings on the JFK Act."

Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination

Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK