The Left and the Death of Kennedy: Five Professors

[LR Trotter]

Why would Chomsky turn on Kennedy when Kennedy is the pure embodiment of leftward ideals?

Everyone has a right to their own opinion, but in my actual memory, that is not how I recall John Fitzgerald Kennedy. And, I do have memory of the fall of 1960, and the campaign, as well as his election as US President, which made him a world leader. That leadership was much tested in October, '62, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, that I also remember. I recall a leader that wanted to maintain what was right, remove what was wrong, and correct some past and present mistakes. And, with knowledge of his leadership, his following was becoming quite substantial. And that, to me, is not "the pure embodiment of leftward ideals".