Facing Facts: The Myths and Truths About Joseph Kennedy

fora tv' the world is thinking let me ask you about some things we all thought we knew about joe

kennedy

that you first dispute or ignore and you admit most of these he was a bootlegger that's where he made his fortune yes i went i came back today to I looked at my book again at some of the outtakes and I found what I found was that I went through every packet of evidence and anyone I've ever read written that he was a smuggler and I looked at their footnotes I looked at their sources I looked at what they had to say on the page and found out first of all nobody called him a bootlegger until the 70's, the Nixon people did everything they could during the 1960 election to crush Joe Kennedy and they call him anything but a bootlegger. does not come up in the 70s conspiracy hunters trying to connect it to the mafia and the mafia to murder develop the bootleggers thesis so i went back and looked at the sources the sources are Al Capone piano tuner these are the main ones sources I'm not making this up Al Capone's piano tuner who claims he overheard a conversation between Capone and Kennedy Sam Giancana 'is a nephew and half-brother writing a book and his daughter writing another book Marie Humphrey who is a big shot in Chicago mob estranged wife and Tina Sinatra it's Tina yes Tina Sinatra these are the sources and they're all third hand reporting you know my dad told me so and so said this there's no evidence I would have been delighted in the way that if he had found a richer book.

He might have talked about you, not Momo and the mafia, but there wasn't any evidence there. Who also found no evidence that he fixed Chicago so JFK was dead. people that the mob was bringing dead people to the polls you know on the face of it it's absurd because he had Mayor Richard Daley there to get the Democrat votes and no one was better than Mayor Daley and finding all the votes he needed is the number one number two political scientists have reviewed the results of the elections and have found that in every precinct where the mob controls the Union and the Union is strong Kennedy surveyed what the democrats who ran for local office did historians good thanks and things you can see I didn't need I didn't need Illinois would have won the election it got I think over three hundred and three electoral votes I didn't need Illinois would have won the election anyway and you know there was Mayor Daley okay here's one you don't even mention but it's on Wikipedia we know Wikipedia is whatever the story about Alexander Pantages now accused Kennedy wanted to buy his theater chain him offered eight million this is this is the story you read around Pantages refused Kennedy made a seventeen year old girl come to his office rip off her blouse scream rape went to jail and then Kennedy was able to buy the theaters for four million four poi No three million you know that's absurd and I was very lucky that a woman named Carrie Beauchamp had written a book about Kennedy in Hollywood and this girl was supposed to have finally been murdered and Kari found this girl and she wasn't murdered and the the story is completely ridiculous