President John F. Kennedy was not a civil rights advocate.
John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator as did Senator Al Gore, Sr., both democrats by the way. Also, after Kennedy became president he was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican. President Kennedy through his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine King.
I was around during MLK time, and remember JFK well, I got nothing good to say about either one of them. A true man of God don't have sex parties in motel rooms. he does not keep turning away from God at night and then the next day put his wings back on, and as far as JFK, He wasn't much better, but he had the money, power and some good hit men, and let's remember his honey Marilyn Monroe who Robert K hated.
I was there when they crucified my Lord I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword I threw the dice when they pierced his side But I've seen love conquer the great divide
Ok Ok enough. Sorry for the digression. Carry on with your vilifying.
Out of curiosity why do they name the worst street in the worst neighborhood in every city in America MLK Boulevard? I think it's time he got a nice street named after him.
this n.that...for someone who doesn't seem to remember too much about the politics of the time..you were too young to vote, you don't remember too much about the Cuban crises.... you sure do remember Jackie.
I think she said MLK was a phoney..lol
What is wrong with that? I am very interested in what these tapes reveal!
No man is perfect. All the men after God's own heart had some serious flaws. Doesn't nullify what the man accomplished.
As far as Jackie is concerned. If it's word for word, I don't take her word for it. I mean look at who she allowed to come in and out of the white house to visit her husband.
I was around then, and Jackie always seemed to have disdain for the American people. She was aloof, distant, always appeared above it all. It is said that she was somewhat shy, and not into the political part of her life.
The most the American people saw of her was when she redecorated the White House, and there was a special about it on TV. I watched it.
King was a dog, but she was married to a bigger dog, and put up with that just fine. She would travel, and JFK would have women in the White House, and the Secret Service would alert him when Jackie was on her way back, so he could clear out the rubbish. One of his women, connected to the "mob" later said, and it was published, that JFK was lousy in bed. Not to be crude, let's just say, over in a minute.
Jackie had no problem staying married to her "dog" of a husband, and a father-in-law who was the leader of the pack, and a brother-in-law, Teddy, who while having one of his flings with Mary Jo, watched her drown, and got away with murder.
As a President, Kennedy was well liked by the country at the time. My family all voted for him. I was too young to vote, but I remember it well. In retrospect, It's hard for me to know if he was a good president or not. I remember the Cuban Missal Crisis, and how it consumed the news, but I was too young to understand just how bad it was
You know how the democrat party likes to put their Dems.Presidents up on pedestals, and present them as larger than life. That whole Camelot thing that surrounded the Kennedy's was a democrat concocted fairy tail image.
The public had no idea there was a "hound dog" in the White House. The media protected him. Nothing new about that.
I now see Jackie as a woman who loved her children, and as one of those women who stays with a man, no matter how much she is abused. And make no mistake about it, JFK abused her. Not with beatings, or verbal abuse even. No, he just treated her like another piece of meat in their private life, and rubbed her nose in his philandering. She still stayed. We see abused women do it all the time.
Jackie set her sights on Jack while he was still just a Senator, and she pretty well knew what she was getting into. Part of her reason for staying, I think, was the power thing.
First Lady of America is a heady position.
And then she married Onassis. One of the ugliest men walking, but boy was he RICH!!
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