The Lynching of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
I know much of the alt media is suspicious of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. But then they are suspicious about literally everyone in the public eye. I get accused of having blinders on when talking about the Kennedys. I admit to being a lifelong fanboy. But no one can deny that they are treated differently from any other elite family.
As Joe Kennedy, Sr. found out, accumulating great wealth doesn’t necessarily earn you a key to the executive washroom. The Kennedys, as nineteenth century Irish immigrants, were considered “new money” by the One Percent of the 1920s era. It didn’t matter if Joe Kennedy had more money than some of them. They weren’t “old money,” and apparently there’s a difference. So despite becoming the nation’s youngest bank president, Kennedy never fit in with the upper crust. He also had a habit of speaking his mind in private. He was opposed to war philosophically, starting with World War I. That isn’t going to make you any friends in high places. He became a part of the America First movement in the 1930s, and issued that timeless statement about wanting to hear a rationale from any parent for their son being sent to risk his life in a foreign conflict. It’s one of the simplest, and best antiwar comments ever.
Joe Kennedy was fully invested in the lives of his children, especially his two oldest sons, Joe Jr. and Jack. He let them know his views on war, and banking. He was one of the first critics of the Federal Reserve. And he talked a lot about Jewish power, in the entertainment world (Joe Kennedy owned a small film studio) and politics. There is no question that his sons adored him, and absorbed these lessons well. Joe Jr. became the first Kennedy to die unnaturally, when he volunteered for what was in effect a suicide mission, to bomb a German site that had already been abandoned. If you’re wondering why the U.S. military would want to bomb an abandoned site, especially with the son of Joe Kennedy on board, then you’re not court historian material. When Joe Jr. was predictably killed, his father was crushed, to such an extent that he would later almost get into a fistfight in the White House with Harry Truman over the subject.
To add to Joe Kennedy’s misery, his daughter Kathleen, or “Kick” as she was known to the family, was killed in another plane crash after the war. If that was the extent of the heartbreak Old Joe endured, it would still be pretty intense. And statistically nearly impossible, to say the least. Two children killed in two separate plane crashes? And then, of course, he would lose two more sons, Jack and Bobby, to separate murders. So, four unnatural and disparate events, taking the lives of his children. As a father, I can’t imagine the grief he must have endured. Joe had a debilitating stroke, just c
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