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People did both vote and elect JFK by their ideals. He was then assassinated.
by stainforth 6y ago
People did both vote and elect JFK by their ideals. He was then assassinated.
- ekianjo 6y agoIt's also very likely the election of JFK was rigged. After all the JFK family had a long history of mob ties.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoI wouldn’t say likely, but it is certainly possible. The Chicago machine was still a thing back then.
- cafard 6y agoJoseph Kennedy was a bank owner (at least part owner) before WW I, and made a further pile in the stock market--getting out before the crash--and some I guess in movies. He bought up a bunch of distilleries, and he had booze stored under bond, but the notion that he was a bootlegger is wrong. Was he more scrupulous than the next businessman? Maybe not. Was he in bed with the mob? I doubt it. Mobs have attempted to rig elections, but not I think The Mob. The most conspicuously rigged election in US history must have been Hayes over Tilden, at a time when organized crime was pretty small beans in the US.