Read Zac Thompson’s review of Assassination Theater here.
The culprit was—and is—much closer to home. In fact, says Levin, the shooter, James Files, has been cooling his heels for years in an Illinois prison. You can find him there today, serving a 50-year sentence for the attempted murder of two police officers—a cog in the once mighty Chicago mob that, according to Levin, took down Jack to get Bobby Kennedy off their backs.
What Levin says he’s dealing with, however, is fact, not legend.
Levin says he could understand the motive Shelton advanced. Bobby Kennedy was making organized crime his “signature issue,” going after the mob and its union ties (especially to Jimmy Hoffa’s Teamsters), which meant he was also going after the mob’s “bank.” But he was “totally taken aback” when Shelton told him he’d “blundered onto this individual, who claimed that he was the one who shot the fatal bullet, from the grassy knoll.”
Through 11/8: Wed-Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 5 and 8:30 PM, Sun 3 and 7:30 PM Museum of Broadcast Communications 360 N. State 312-629-6000assassinationtheater.com $49, $39 students and seniors
