[attiladhun2]

What the hell did he ever do?

Everybody thinks he had a great record on civil rights, when the opposite is true. He nominated segregationist judges. He had his brother bug Martin L. King's phone conversations. By assisting Diem's fall, he probably set the course that led to defeat in Vietnam. Kennedy approved the Bay of Pigs fiasco, when doubts about its success were already being voiced in the CIA's inner circle. The Cuban Missile Crisis was far from being a success, since its outcome assured the survivability of Castro's regime. Sure doesn't look like Camelot to me.

[Mears]

Many were convinced in 1963 that JFK was directly responsible for Diem’s death.