15-03-2011, 06:07 PM
Bernice Moore Wrote:Joe Kennedy was no angel but neither was he a bootlegger | Irish Examiner
http://www.examiner.ie/opinion/columnist...48064.html
This short article points out imo, just one of a zillion, unevidenced assertions
that go forth unchecked within the information of the Kennedys and the assassination, repeated until, they are taken as fact but that still does not prove that they are the truth.....b
Great article, Beans. Not to change the subject, but, IMO it tends to also point out the improbability that the old man was "black-mailable" for anything that he (or his sons) had, in fact, done in the past. As the article [paraphrased] says:
"He was no angel. His enemies were numerous, were well financed, and were highly motivated to smear him [and them]."
Yet, his enemies were unable to use boot-legging at all since even the FBI files had no report of any such activity on his part. The FBI did, as we now know, have tons of information on other aspects of all of their lives. Yet, IMO, there was a profound combination of both fear and respect for Old Joe. He was not a person with whom one casually crossed swords expecting to triumph or even survive such an encounter.
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monk
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monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)