Of course it did.
But people have been trained to cry on cue about the druggy so they do.
The left turned JFK into their George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Mother Theresa, and Joan of Arc all rolled into one great idealist President who would have made America a dreamy utopia if he had only gotten that second term in office.
It was probably one of the most effective propaganda programs of history and gave his brothers extraordinary power that endured through legislation and Senator power through to 2009 and that has survived to some degree in lessor offices with other Kennedys.