Oliver Stone and the JFK Assassination

[Riverman]

15. Catholic Bobby

Bobby was a very devout Catholic. He had a bunch of kids, like a good Catholic. I was raised Catholic from an East Coast Irish working class family, middle of five kids. Remember the night JFK was elected - our Irish-Italian (children and grand-children of immigrants) row house neighborhood was ecstatic, even though most adults were republicans(had to be to get the trash picked-up and cops and fire to respond). One of us was now elected President - as if we were now accepted as Americans.

May be that Bobby's purist Catholic beliefs aligned w/McCarty's anti-Communist campaign because they were doing God's work, vanquishing the evil doers. I also belief that Bobby later relied on that Catholic faith coming from more of a Christ-like view of doing good for the less fortunate. That likely also influenced JFK to a point, but JFK was more of a pragmatist and not necessarily was going to be constrained by religious dogma. After all he liked sex with attractive women, though married.

Certainly, the Kennedy's were a new threat to the established order and messed with the military-industrial complex that even Eisenhower warned about. If there was a JFK assassination conspiracy, his enemies that would plan, carry-out and cover up his murder, would have to be more likely to be from the military industrialist puppeteers class. After all, JFK was not all-in for Vietnam, LBJ apparently was and it destroyed his presidency and millions of lives.