RE DK POSTS RECENT

 Professor

This, below, was my comment, under "A Blast From The Past"

I can't improve on it.

People who feel sorry for the Kennedys, and trust I am not one, or for themselves, should suck it up.

"Professor

Interesting waltz through American political History.

Regarding this paragraph:

"As for Illinois, it has become a Republican myth that Mayor Richard J. Daley stole the 1960 vote for JFK, with the false implication that Nixon would otherwise have won. Kennedy wound up with 303 electoral votes and would have had 276 and a majority without it. Forty years ago, as I pointed out in The Road to Dallas, a political scientist named Kallina effectively debunked that myth with a very careful analysis of the Cook County vote. What I realized watching the broadcast was that the sequence of events during the night did not support that myth either, and indeed suggested that if anyone was manipulating the vote late at night it was downstate Republicans. When CBS signed off around 5:00 AM that night, the count showed JFK ahead by 101,000 votes. As it turned out, Nixon won 55 percent of the 877,000 votes that remained to be counted--most of them downstate--and the margin narrowed to just under 9,000 votes."

The teamsters, and the Mob, both, not just in Illinois, or specifically in Chicago, delivered the victory to Kennedy, for their own patronage reasons.

That is why John and his truly clueless brother Bobby were killed.

All the best"