I have this recurring thought that Old Joe sold his soul to the Devil to get his son in the White House.
The outcome of History is exactly as you might expect Satan to fill his end of the bargain.
The son he intended, died in WWII.
JFK gets in, but not exactly the tenure Joe had in mind.
And how many generations and how wide a swath through that clan, has Satan reaped his harvest?
Imagine how many pages might be occupied in Wikipedia, if there were an entry for “Deaths and Tragedies in the Joe Kennedy clan”.....
(I haven’t looked...)
Well, just a simple listing, one line per event, takes up more than one page on my screen:
The Kennedy Curse - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_tragedies