02-02-2015, 03:22 AM
Jim Hargrove Wrote:According to the Kindle reader, I'm 14 percent through Kennedy Must be Killed, and I'm ticked off that I don't have more free time right now.
Potential readers should be warned that the author, early on, thoroughly trashes the young JFK for his sexual successes, his war record, his father's influence, his rise in politics, and everything else that could possibly be criticized. My guess is that he will trash the more mature Kennedy for those things and for "reckless" political acts near the end of his life.
Nevertheless, if you can live with that, this book is a hoot! Currently, the young assassin-to-be is being hosted by a humorless, poker-playing J. Edgar Hoover, with Clyde Tolson playing the live-in maid. I'm seriously entertaining the notion that this is some kind of professional, limited hang-out, which I'm predicting now will conclude that JFK was killed for the good of the nation.
As I said in my original post. It's not that the author agrees with this viewpoint; he is expressing the point of view of the plotters and how they justified the assassination in their minds. It must be read from the point of view of fanatical right-wing "patriots."