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How the Kennedy Empire was Built
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Posted on 05/06/2006 2:13:42 PM PDT by bkepley

- He formed alliances with crime bosses in major markets, among them Boston, New York, Chicago, and New Orleans. These would come in handy years later when his son was running for national office. Among his mob associates was Frank Costello, former boss of the Luciano crime family, who bragged, "I helped Joe Kennedy get rich." Sam Giancana, who would later figure prominently in Jack's presidency, called Joe "one of the biggest crooks who ever lived."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; frankcostello; kennedy; kennedyfamily; luciano; samgiancana
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To: Jimmy Valentine

St. Mary's Citty would certainly meet my criteria for historicism; but, I do not know the area. Would it still be rural enough to suit me?


101 posted on 05/08/2006 8:40:15 AM PDT by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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To: caryatid

Oh what's the matter?????

Why can't you have an intelligent conversation about something you don't like?????

To bad for you....

And stop with the personal attacks, they are most unbecoming to you....


102 posted on 05/08/2006 9:06:19 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: HarleyLady27; Admin Moderator
Tsk! There you go again.

Seriously, HarleyLady27, it is time for you to stop these childish personal attacks. I simply do not have time for this kind of stupid stuff and your personal attacks are growing tiresome.

And, not to put too fine a point on it ... your posts are seriously off topic and violate one of FRee Republics rules against senseless flame wars.

Knock it off. This has gone far enough.

I have no interest in engaging with you in a tit for tat, childish squabble. You adore the Kennedys and popular culture. I do not. People who do, react just as you have reacted to any rational discussion of the Kennedys ... and become quite emotional and tedious as you have done.

There are plenty of other FReepers who appear to relish constant squabbling; and, who share your "enjoyment" of popular culture and media icons. I am not one of them.

If you post to me again ... on any topic ... ever ... I will hit Report Abuse and let the Mods deal with the matter.

103 posted on 05/08/2006 9:32:56 AM PDT by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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To: Mercat

"something else going on between Joe and his daughter..."
-------see the 1974 film Chinatown, with the great John Huston as Noah Cross---could have been a model for Joe Kennedy,


104 posted on 05/08/2006 9:44:56 AM PDT by willyboyishere
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To: caryatid; HarleyLady27

Knock it off.


105 posted on 05/08/2006 9:56:14 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: TeddyCon; Arizona Carolyn
I fully agree with you on JFK's being politically closer to today's GOP than the moonbats.

I was reading a book on the 1960 election a few years ago and JFK told his closest advisors that if he didn't win the nomination, he was going to vote for, and quietly back, Nixon in the general election. If he were around today, he'd definitely be somewhere in the middle of the GOP Senators we now have. And there's little doubt he'd be embarrassed half to death by his brother, the U-Boat Commander.

106 posted on 05/08/2006 10:16:37 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
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To: bkepley

Joe Kennedy was also a Nazi sympathizer.


107 posted on 05/08/2006 10:17:01 AM PDT by wjcsux (I would prefer to have the German army in front of me than the French army behind me- Gen. G. Patton)
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To: wjcsux
Joe Kennedy was also a Nazi sympathizer.

Yep, and he was an ardent anglophobe who still managed to be appointed ambassador to the Court of St. James. Not one of FDR's brightest ideas in the realm of foreign policy...

108 posted on 05/08/2006 10:29:49 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
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