Re:JFK in Trauma Room One: A Witness Remembers
by ekianjo on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @08:02PM
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It's also very likely the election of JFK was rigged. After all the JFK family had a long history of mob ties.
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Re:JFK in Trauma Room One: A Witness Remembers
by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:45PM
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I wouldn’t say likely, but it is certainly possible. The Chicago machine was still a thing back then.
Re:JFK in Trauma Room One: A Witness Remembers
by cafard on Thursday November 26, 2020 @09:02AM
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Joseph 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.