[abb]

Galbraith remarked to Schlesinger, “We let the Radical Right
inject this poison into the American bloodstream and this is the result.”

Almost all of the White House family assumed that the assassination had been the work of the Radical Right.

Later that day, Schlesinger echoed the thought, “You know,
the Radical Right has never been taken seriously in this
country.

http://www.davekopel.org/schlesinger/Schlesinger-chapter-9.pdf

[GeronL]

I have seen the media mention a full page ad by Republicans a week before as a possible incitement. As if a commie thought JFK was too liberal or something

[BeadCounter]

General Walker ran as a Democrat for Governor in Texas.

“In February 1962, Walker entered the race but finished last among six candidates in a Democratic primary election that was won in a runoff election by John B. Connally, Jr., the choice of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Walker

Who were the “radical right” back then?? A lot of Democrats were I would think.

[Wallace T.]

Upon the assassination of President Kennedy, the MSM of the time and the academic community were geared up to blame the so-called radical right. Inconveniently, the man arrested and charged as the assassin was a Marxist who had defected from the Marine Corps to the Soviet Union. He returned to the United States with a Soviet wife whose father was a major in the KGB.

I won't go into whether he acted alone or not. However, the MSM continues to bring up the dominant conservative political culture of the Dallas of that time, as if this fact was somehow to blame for a Marxist shooting at a politically liberal President.

Unfortunately, conservatives do their own version of historical revisionism. Kennedy was as reviled by conservatives 50 years ago as Obama is today, because of his weakness in dealing with the Soviets and the Cuban Communists and his liberal domestic agenda. In the latter case, a coalition of northern and western Republicans and southern Democrats thwarted many of his proposals. Yet Kennedy is made out to be a hero by today's conservatives, because he supported lowering marginal income tax rates.

[AceMineral]

Still doesn’t answer the question as to why the Texans did not like Kennedy.