Kennedy Redux

[lisasmall]

With the passing of Teddy Kennedy, the assassinations of his two brothers are much in the news again, and Vanity Fair has a long article about JFK biographer Manchester's struggles with the family to tell the story as he learned it. There's a lot I didn't know about the murder in this piece by Sam Kashner:

“In that third year of the Kennedy

Comments

[jehannamama]

I remember all but that last bit about the class in Manchester. I do remember reading about the swastikas and the movement to impeach Earl Warren in the news and about the flag being flown upside down and how some people wanted that general jailed for disrespect to the flag.

The republicans do this all the time but they sure don't like it if the dems give any payback.

Anti-JFK

[lisasmall]

Well, we're above payback, especially if you're talking about the lightly-veiled death threats the far right orifices keep spouting. Democrats simply don't do that. We don't pray for Supreme Court justices to die, we don't pray for presidents to die, we don't tell a nationwide audience that we hope the current president will fail. We don't blow up health clinics or murder doctors. We don't lynch the people we're afraid of.

I remember the talk about Earl Warren, but in Chicago, I personally didn't see any swastikas except for those left over from WW II and those which sprung up with the neo-Nazi movement in the 1980s. Oh, and those affected by motorcycle gangs. And those spray-painted on Jewish gravestones. Hmmm... now that I think about it, I guess I saw plenty of swastikas but didn't identify them as anti-Kennedy or anti-Catholic.

The bad old days.