America had lived through the McKinley assassination and the attempted assassination of Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
President Good Hair who stole the election was not going to be re-elected.
The myth that was built up about this "beloved" drug addicted, warmongering Irish shyster who could NOT keep his pants zipped was done after he was safely dead.
Sorry I disagree. I kind of thought like you at one point but in the last few years have changed my thinking on Kennedy. Within the last three years I read several books that had a lot of information on Kennedy I had not read before and the times he lived in that made me see he was trying to do a number of things that were for this country.
One of the reasons the Kennedy assassination was a pivotal moment was the technology we had with TV, it brought that tragedy right into your home and made it real not just a newspaper headline.
Kennedy saw that the CIA was already out of control and wanted to do something about them and probably was killed for doing so.
There is a brand new book on the Cuban Missile Crisis by Max Hastings I want to read that also may have a lot of new insights about Kennedy.
If he were running today against the sorry choices we have now I probably would vote for him. So much about this and that would have happened in 1964 is just a lot of speculation that holds no water. Kennedy may very well have been re-elected. If nothing else he would have had a much more likability factor than Goldwater. But we will never know.