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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.

I remember well the times. He was not popular at all when he was killed. I’m not so sure he would have been re-elected in a race against Goldwater.

The 1964 LBJ race was run using JFK’s hearse as a prop. I don’t think anyone could have beaten LBJ. If you remember, LBJ kept almost all the Kennedy cabinet in their jobs. Those weasels had no problem switching loyalties.

Even RFK stayed on as Attorney General, and quit after the election, so he could run for the Senate from New York.

…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.

one doesn't need to go into whether or not he acted alone to know that something smelled about that guy. But with all that you mentioned about Oswald, that he got back into the country just by asking, with his wife, with money given to him by the US government to fly here, and we're supposed to believe that J Edgar Hoover's FBI wasn't watching every move he made?

Yet Kennedy is made out to be a hero by today's conservatives, because he supported lowering marginal income tax rates.

Not a hero, but any way you slice it, JFK has to be preferred to the disaster who is the Obamanation.