Didn’t think there was anyone who did not doubt that outcome.
Kennedy was selected, not elected?
I was always under the impression that the height of Joe Kennedy’s manipulation was the West Virginia vote.
I remember right before the election, Kennedy team sent out an out and out lie saying that Richard Nixon would close General Dynamics if he was elected POTUS. I was only 13 and saw so many kids whose parents working for GD crying.
Voter fraud, ballot stuffing, lying about hope and change. The dems have to resort to these tactics because their emotional appeals and vote buying cannot, alone, win elections.
Alabama and Georgia voters had to vote for the electors separately, rather than as part of a slate committed to one candidate.
Different electors pledged to a candidate got different statewide vote totals, making it hard to come up with single figures for Kennedy and Nixon.
Plus, some of the Alabama Democratic electors were pledged to vote for Kennedy and others weren't.
Were those votes for Democrat electors cast for Kennedy or against him? It's not easy to say.
It was the fraud that changed and ruined America.
nixon personally killed jfk to win in 68 how much more obvious can it be
Lots of big changes and historic events in the 60s. The U.S. has never been the same since. My Dad is on the right looking towards Kennedy and his good partner is looking directly at the camera at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.
He was very involved in providing security for national and world dignitaries of all stripes. Not long after this photo was taken, things started getting pretty ugly. Him and his partners seemed to know what was coming.
There’s a good piece in the NYPost today about how his assassination led the Dems to start the blame America syndrome and to lionize Kennedy as a paragon of liberal ideals, In actual fact he was more conservative than Nixon. Both men were Cold Warriors but Nixon was a New Dealer, having worked in the federal govt after law school, while Kennedy came from a family that hated FDR. The regulatory state in which we live as serfs was begun in the Nixon Administration. OSHA, the EPA, wage and price controls, all began with Nixon. Nixon to his credit was on board with civil rights before Kennedy who was only pushed into it by events like Meredith and Ole Miss.
Whatever one thinks of Joe Kennedy and the Kennedy clan, JFK, despite all his faults, was a lot better president than the last four that we’ve had.
Except Nixon was actually beaten by vote fraud — algore was unhappy because his own vote fraud was thwarted.
Does anybody think the courts in Chicago were going to give him an even break if he had?