Just a few drive-by ramblings of a fella who lived through that era, albeit as a youngster?
"Camelot," remembered with pattering hearts & bated breath by the press, and promoted by various hangers-on who basked in the Kennedy limelight was a myth as it developed, and a fairy tale in retrospect.
My parents knew about and discussed the drugs and the women and the fraudulent votes, and other corruption- the press, then as now, covered up for favored Sons, and never let facts get in the way of their beloved "narrative."
I mainly remember JFK as the guy that nearly started two nuclear wars, and betrayed Cuban patriots,
Teddy? If it had been you or me, we'd still be under the jail.
When that fails, you go to the airwaves big time. The bill would lose another 10% of support from the sheeple overnight.