Yes, and there is no secret that he arranged the assassinations of Vietnamese leaders whom he did not like. He also backed the UN war against Katanga, which was one of the most vicious attacks on traditional values of the era. The man was utterly contemptible.
“Yes, and there is no secret that he arranged the assassinations of Vietnamese leaders whom he did not like”
Absolutely. This is very little remembered in America, but Kennedy set in motion the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem, the first and only leader South Vietnam had known.
This set in motion years of chaos in the leadership of South Vietnam and helped push Lyndon Johnson into sending American combat troops into the country to keep it from falling apart.