The patriarch was a low life unethical mobster. He didn't do "very good", he did reprehensible things to get ahead. He had no compunction about violating laws whenever necessary, and he lied, cheated and stole at every opportunity.
He and his family were trailer park trash from the beginning.
“The patriarch was a low life unethical mobster. He didn’t do “very good”, he did reprehensible things to get ahead. He had no compunction about violating laws whenever necessary, and he lied, cheated and stole at every opportunity.”
Yeh, old Joe Kennedy, along with Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, others, were Hitler admirers during the run-up to WWII. In fact, JFK contributed $100 to the American Nazi party prior to the war.