It’s a real toss up between having JFK as a nut case on cortisone or having what we have now.
I’d take the nut case on cortisone because he’s just nuts.
Cortisone does not drive people mad. That was a mistaken belief back then. The actual side effects, major and minor, of cortisone (hydrocortisone), are pretty mundane, with the worst psychological effect being “irritability”.
Not clinical, violent paranoia, as believed at the time, and depicted in the movie. My point was that in that situation, a doctor could tell at a distance that JFK had Addison’s disease (because of the appearance of the skin of his face), and the only treatment for Addison’s at the time was cortisone. Therefore, that JFK was taking cortisone.
At that time, they (incorrectly) thought that cortisone in the dose needed to treat Addison’s would likely make a person a clinical, violent paranoid.
And JFK had a bunch of health problems, yet was adamant that he would not leave office because of them. In fact, that he would run for reelection despite them.
Then the Cuban Missile Crisis happened, and America was terrified of the prospect of nuclear war. A war which JFK could have started any time, at will.
Put it all together. A president driven mad by drugs, with his finger on the nuclear trigger, is intolerable. He had to be removed from office for the good of the country, but will not resign on his own. Unless he is removed, the world could be plunged into a nuclear war.
QED: JFK must die.