Kennedy, Jack

There are some facts in the mind of the American public that hint at the reality behind the "Kennedy look" Ted s Chappaquid-dick disaster, Judith Exner Campbell s revelations that Chicago mobster Sam Giancana had given her to Jack, and the well-known stories of Papa Joe s bootlegging days. The suspicions are there but Americans aren t really sure what the Kennedys are ... 

Perhaps he (Joe Kennedy—ed.) was a little comforted by the kind note that his dear friend Lord Beaverbrook sent to Rose "May Joe find solace.. . in the assurance that Bobby will repeat Jack s career." (22)... 

Pleasurable discussions with Ronald James, Jack Feth, Alan Jackman, Ralph Cheng, Ray Wildung, and Harvey Drucker, but most especially with Vance Kennedy, are acknowledged. Donald Langmuir, Harry Leland, Frank Trainer, and particularly David Rickert provided very helpful reviews. 

President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald is charged with the murder. He is assassinated in jail by Jack Ruby. Both Oswald and Ruby are widely regarded as insane, and the crimes are dismissed as the senseless violence of two lunatics. John F. Kennedy was killed by a lunatic, Lee Harvey Oswald, who had momentarily given loyalty to the paranoid Fidel Castro of Cuba. And Oswald was, in turn, within two days, slain by another madman. Jack Ruby. Had Oswald received psychiatric help when he was young, John Kennedy might be alive today. 

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