RFK Jr. and the Kennedy Legacy, by Donald Jeffries

The Kennedys have suprisingly few prominent fans. From Donald Jeffries at donaldjeffries.substack.com:

Mockingbird lies and distortions

I’ve described the impact that the JFK assassination had on me, as a seven year old child. My Catholic family was in mourning, as reruns of Superman, Popeye, The Little Rascals and the Three Stooges were preempted for the nonstop coverage of Kennedy lying in state and then the funeral, with a riderless horse leading the procession.

There was a somber mood over the country, and within my family’s small brick rambler. Like most Catholics, my parents were enthralled with the handsome and well-spoken John F. Kennedy, the youngest president ever elected, and the first one who shared our religion. I was as impressionable as any other kid that age, so I was enthralled with him, too. He was the first president I remember, and that dignified and articulate persona set the template for what I imagined the leader of our country was supposed to be like. Going from that to the crude and bumbling Lyndon Johnson was a culture shock that I think contributed to a national loss of confidence.

We were driving home from Sunday mass when we heard on the radio that suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot. Even as a barely intellectually formed second grader, I realized that Jack Ruby must have shot Oswald to stop him from talking. I actually remember pontificating about this to adult relatives at the next big family gathering. No one corrected me. My father, and every other family member who discussed the subject, never accepted the official explanation for a minute. My father hated Johnson as much as he loved Kennedy, so the vice president was his chief suspect. He used to say that, during the Kennedy inaugural, Sam Rayburn told his pal LBJ, “It should have been the other way around,” in other words, that JFK had been vice president.

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One response to “RFK Jr. and the Kennedy Legacy, by Donald Jeffries

  1. Nanook Rubs It's avatar Nanook Rubs It

    Bedtime For Democracy is the last primetime lineup Dead Kennedys album from 1986.
    The previous album Frankenchrist had the HR Giger “Penis Landscape” insert painting of genitals in coitus and the PMRC brought lawfare against them.
    The Great Frank Zappa stood up for the first amendment and rock before the congress brothel in the late 1980’s.
    The former USA died in 1963 and AINO is an abomination.
    If RFK Jr. had come along earlier there might have been a chance for the Chiquitastan banana but now the Long March to burn down Western Civ is too far advanced.

    “Western Civilization? I think it would be a good idea.”

    Mahatma Ghandi

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