LF: Al Capone's son threatened to kill late Senator Ted Kennedy just weeks after his brother Robert was assassinated

Title: Al Capone's son threatened to kill late Senator Ted Kennedy just weeks after his brother Robert was assassinated
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... other-Robert-assassinated.html
Published: Aug 2, 2011
Author: Daily Mail Reporter
Post Date: 2011-08-02 08:26:42 by Sebastian
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Previously unseen FBI documents have revealed the son of legendary mobster Al Capone drunkenly threatened to 'assassinate' the late Senator Edward Kennedy.

Three weeks after his brother Senator Robert Kennedy was shot dead in Los Angeles, Albert 'Sonny' Capone was overheard in a Miami restaurant saying Ted Kennedy might 'get it too'.

The 1968 threat was revealed in a newly-released part of the former Massachusetts senator's FBI file, which is almost entirely made up of threats against the youngest Kennedy brother.

Was he a target? FBI files have revealed a threat was made against late Senator Ted Kennedy by the son of mobster Al Capone

Intercepted: Albert 'Sonny' Capone, second left, was overheard making the threat during a drunken phone call at a restaurant in Florida

Intercepted: Albert 'Sonny' Capone, second right as a young boy, was overheard making the threat during a drunken phone call at a restaurant in Florida

It is likely to fuel conspiracy theories that the mob was involved in the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy.

According to the file, a man overheard Capone, 50, make a call from a public phone at the New England Oyster House in Coral Gables, Florida, on June 24, 1968.

At one point in the conversation, witnesses claimed he said: 'If Edward Kennedy keeps fooling around he was going to get it, too.'

Capone identified himself after asking the operator to bill the call to his home in Palm Island and he 'appeared intoxicated', the report states.

Despite being the son of a mob figure Capone - who died in 2004, is thought to have led a law-abiding life, including working as a florist.

Political legacy: Conspiracy theorists have speculated that the mob was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, left. Centre, Robert Kennedy was also assassinated

Political legacy: The Kennedy brothers, from left, JFK, Robert and Edward. Conspiracy theorists have claimed the mob was involved in JFK's killing

Assassinated: Robert Kennedy leaving Downing Street in 1968. He was shot dead in Los Angeles later that year. Right, President Kennedy was infamously killed in Dallas in 1963

The file also contained two letters warning Ted Kennedy against speaking publicly in Ocala, Florida, during a visit in 1972.

One reads: 'It will not be safe for you. Some of us are for you, but big majority are against you.

That refers to a car accident Mr Kennedy had on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast of Massachusetts, in July 1969 which killed campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne.

Mr Kennedy arrived in Ocala on a private plane and stayed at the home of George Steinbrenner, the owner of the Kinsman Stud Farm.

He was assigned two police officers for his protection and Mr Steinbrenner hired up to ten men from the Pinkerton Detective Agency to guard him, according to the Huffington Post.

An anonymous call in 1965 to police in Lynn, Massachusetts, warned that 'Kennedy will not reach city hall tonight'.

Another, from a female caller, claimed to have learned of a plot from Cuba to assassinate him.

The file also contains more recent threats, including an investigation into an envelope filled with white powder that was sent to his office after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.

That was probably just a cocaine delivery meant for Patches,and sent to his pappy by mistake.

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