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Thanks for your follow-up. JFK's Wikipedia entry says the back injury enlistment obstacle you mention occurred in spring '41; also I recall that JFK had published his book on Pearl Harbor the previous year. I think his father was probably more concerned about grooming him for a future political career than in making sure he followed his own political positions. I'm not aware of any evidence in Joseph or JFK's FBI files indicating any Communist connections during this period, and there were extensive security reviews of both of them so I'd think it'd have been noted. At this time the intelligence community--both British and US--was mainly concerned about Joseph's Nazi ties, and there was also a scandal with JFK having a romantic relationship with a Nazi spy, Inga Arvad, in 1942. As far as I know (off the top of my head anyway--I could be forgetting something) JFK didn't pick up any strong left-wing associations until he started running for President and taking advisor recommendations from former members of the FDR/Truman State Department, which had of course been heavily compromised.

So how about the Bay of Pigs? Kennedy could not have caused a greater debacle.

He left the military in shambles. Get the old timers to talk with you about this. Nothing in the history books.

He intended to abandon the Viet Namese as soon as he was reelected says Pierre Salinger.

I suppose one might believe that I don't approve of that no account adulterer. I don't, and that is a fact.

Oh, yeah, how about the Kennedy assassination being a KGB job? Oswald is just the sort of trigger man one would expect if that were the case. Perhaps Kennedy was getting restless, maybe even ready to spill the beans, especially as the formidable James Jesus Angleton was after him.

I really don't like the guy. What he did at the Bay of Pigs was to intentionally cause the death and capture of a very fine bunch of men. The whole mess was his fault and not Eisenhower's.