this is not true. JFK is the second most popular President (behind Reagan) on FR, if you take the # of positive comments : negative comments, with some threshold above background noise. Freepers older than 45, like Bozell, he's probably right.
As a Freeper older than 45, I think of JFK as a great disappointment. He was a man of great charm ,mediocre intellect, and low morals. As president, it is hard to gauge his accomplishments, since he had one foot in the post-war and one foot in the Vietnam era. His great blunder was his complicity in the assassination of Diem, which discredited our efforts to maintain South Vietnamese independence. Those who say that he intended to pull our forces out of Vietnam surely forget what a mess had been created by ths spring of 1964.
As a Catholic, I see him as a bad Catholic pretending to be a faithful one: untutored , uninterested in his faith. A poor husband with a trophy wife, unable to keep his pants zipped, though with much better taste in women than Boy Clinton.
His “set” mocked the style of the Eisenhowers for their Army manners, and affected a style straight out of “the Great Gatsby.” His books were ghost-written, but he was presented as an intellectual because of his abilility to banter with the press. Yet he was less the student of public affairs than Ronald Reagan, as we now know. He was presented as an athlete, which he was, but not a healthy one. We now know the truth about him but this has only increased the ardor of his youthful admirers. He is contrasted with Johnson and Nixon, with Nixon totally demonized so as to mask the responsibility of Kennedy and Johnson for the Vietnam War.
In short, the truth about the man has been not such much forgotten as “colorized” like some black and white film, to obscure the sharp outlines of the actual past.