Joseph Campisi

Joseph Campisi was a restaurateur and head of the Dallas mafia.
Campisi was the underboss to then head of the Dallas mafia, Joseph Civello. Campisi and his brother Sam were associated with Carlos Marcello. They made trips to New Orleans where they would socialize and play golf with members of the Marcello crime family, including Marcello's brothers. He was an attendee at the wedding of Michael Marcello. Through Campisi, Vincent LoScalzo attempted to strengthen ties between the Trafficante crime family and Marcello. Other friends included Benny Binion and Henry Wade, the District Attorney of Dallas for 30 years.
Campisi was never convicted of any offence. Although he was arrested for murder in 1944, which the grand jury found was self-defense.
He inherited The Egyptian Lounge when his father Carlo died. Civello was a frequent visitor to the restaurant. As was the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, a friend of Campisi's. Campisi was likewise a visitor to Ruby's strip club. Ruby dined at Campisi's restaurant the night before Kennedy was assassinated and Campisi was later Ruby's first visitor in jail. Campisi was interviewed by the FBI on 7 December 1963 but was not called to testify before the Warren Commission. However he did provide a deposition to the House Select Committee on Assassinations on 29 May 1978.
He died on 12 January 1990 from a heart attack, aged 73.