Who was Jack Valenti?

[Ken Martinson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti

All four of his grandparents had immigrated to the United States from Sicily in the 1890s.

In 1962, at age 41, Valenti married Mary Margaret Wiley who served on the staff of President Lyndon Johnson.

Worked at MPAA until age 82. And was succeeded by a former U.S. Congressman.

Does he have any connection with organized crime?

[Phil Nelson]

I wouldn't look to Wikipedia for anything about Valenti's true past or his intrinsically shady character traits. 

Within my book "Who Really Killed Martin Luther King Jr. -- The Case Against Lyndon Johnson J. Edgar Hoover" there are eight (8) pages directed to that very point: See Chapter 13, in the first section titled "More Revelations of Lyndon Johnson’s Connections from Washington to Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, and Memphis: Jack Valenti and Jack Ruby—Partners in Porn?  

The bottom line is that Jack Valenti had a very checkered past, but ultimately, a hugely successful 40+ year run as "Mr. Hollywood."  Thanks to LBJ (having previously used Bill Moyers to squire Mary Margaret around town as a "beard" to ensure she was available for him whenever he signaled that the time was "now"), by 1962 he came up with the plan to have her marry Jack, so he could be with her anytime simply by letting Jack replace Bill for the "long-term" relationship.  Evidently that marriage survived despite the rather unconventional way it came about.