Reply #142: Yes, there was a very large group of the population who despised [View All]

him. I grew up in Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. Saw a lot of the Kennedy's in parades, and my Dad brought me to a church breakfast when JFK was speaking during his campaign. I helped pass out fliers and buttons. I was in high school when he was assassinated. A group of WASP girls (yes they were in the Boston suburbs)knew I had been a Kennedy supporter. After the announcement and one of them said,"Good, your Catholic President is dead." That is something that has stuck with me for all these years.

But he and Jackie were an inspiration to most of the country and they were loved overseas. There were those that could not get over the relgious thing, and the die hard RWer's that hated any Democrat as President. You also have to remember he really was the first to start pushing for civil rights. LBJ picked up where Kennedy left off, but a lot of southerners and other "Americans" hated Kennedy for that.