Even the N.Y. Times wrote scathing articles about how BAD a president he was. The ONLY reason he was in Dallas that fateful day, was because, even with LBJ and his great ways with voter fraud, he was going to lose the next election and had already lost Texas.
JFK was on the Senate anti-Commie committee....with his dear pal Nixon. So yes, he was an anti-Commie and that part wasn't an "act". OTOH, his supposed "love of blacks" and a whole lot of other stuff, WAS all an "ACT"!
Teddy was the STUPID Kennedy; but more EVIL than Jack or Bobby. Bobby was much more of a lefty than Jack was, but Teddy was stupid and evil; just not inept...sadly.