so JFK was mafia?
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Read more at
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnfkenn109213.html#TS5SdJEQmZgeH366.99
Probably. Apparently his father was a bootlegger. He was also invested as a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
What I find strange is that he was anti-semetic even though it was a Jewish lawyer(Felix Frankfurter)that helped him and his sons rise.
Kennedy felt that democracy was dead in America as it was in England. maybe that is why they elected his son. To shut him up.
Kennedy also argued strongly against giving military and economic aid to the United Kingdom. "Democracy is finished in England. It may be here,"
other quotes.
As fiercely anti-Communist as they were anti-Semitic, Kennedy and Astor looked upon Adolf Hitler as a welcome solution to both of these "world problems" (Nancy's phrase).... Kennedy replied that he expected the "Jew media" in the United States to become a problem, that "Jewish pundits in New York and Los Angeles" were already making noises contrived to "set a match to the fuse of the world".
By August 1940, Kennedy worried that a third term as the President for Roosevelt would mean war. As Leamer reports, "Joe believed that Roosevelt, Churchill, the Jews, and their allies would manipulate America into approaching Armageddon."Nevertheless, Kennedy supported Roosevelt's third term in return for Roosevelt's support of Joseph Kennedy, Jr., in the run for the Governor of Massachusetts in 1942. However, even during the darkest months of World War II, Kennedy remained "more wary of" prominent American Jews, such as Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, than he was of Hitler.
Kennedy told the reporter Joe Dinneen:
It is true that I have a low opinion of some Jews in public office and in private life. That does not mean that I... believe they should be wiped off the face of the Earth... Jews who take an unfair advantage of the fact that theirs is a persecuted race do not help much... Publicizing unjust attacks upon the Jews may help to cure the injustice, but continually publicizing the whole problem only serves to keep it alive in the public mind.
Though strangely he helped silence a so called anti-semetic priest Father Charles Coughlin.
I think it was all for show and they were allies.
