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If the story holds true, there would have been no “Camelot” had Joe Sr. not bought extra votes from Chicago to send his kid to the White House.

Don’t forget about West Virginia (”Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary”).

Th term "Camelot" was coined by none other than Jackie herself in an interview after the assassination in what was the opening salvo of an obvious effort to rehabilitate the image of her late whoremonger misogynist serial adulterer husband.

If the story holds true, there would have been no “Camelot” had Joe Sr. not bought extra votes from Chicago to send his kid to the White House.

There would have been no "Camelot" if Joe Sr. hadn't rigged JFK's bit to win a Massachusetts congressional seat in 1946, his first effort to stand for public office.

For starters, Kennedy didn't live in the district he was running in. Joe selected it for him it because its population was overwhelmingly Catholic.

Second, the incumbent was a wildly-popular former Boston mayor named James Michael Curley. When Joe Sr. found out Curley was being investigated for mail fraud, he figured that Curley was vulnerable to bribery because he was guilty as hell and so could do with a stack of ready cash to perpetrate some bribery of his own. So Joe bought him off him not to stand for re-election. Then Joe Sr. hired a janitor named Joseph Russo to get his name on the ballot because there was a legitimate candidate named Joseph Russo standing for the same office and Joe Sr. hoped the confusion would prevent wither Russo from winning. All paid for in ill-gotten gains come by primarily through illegal insider trading and rum-running.