Reply #17: This is possibly the most [View All]

fucked-up thing I've read here.

The Kennedys were not America's most powerful family, but the Kennedys did threaten those who were more powerful: old Eastern establishment clans like the Rockefellers and emerging oil dynasties like the Hunts.

JFK was leaving Vietnam, entering detente with the Soviets and pursuing back-channel rapproachement with Cuba. RFK was the first Attorney General to seriously attack organized crime, much to the chagrin of J Edgar Hoover and Carlos Marcello. And by the time of his murder, Robert had moved considerably further to the left than John.

It would have been a different America had they lived. Which is precisely why they had to die.