salinger rip
I was reading pierre salinger's "with kennedy" when i heard he'd died.
Old age. And, granted, i wasn't reading it at that moment; it is one of a half a dozen kennedy books i'm in the middle of.
these include "the last kennedy" about teddy
and one i think called "a question of character" which is a little dull but readable.
the salinger is what's called "the camelot school" of uncritical work.
the 'question of character' tries hard to be critical but ends up pretty mainstream.
maybe this is because i'm coming off seymour hersh's "the dark side of camelot" which pretty much repeats any nasty rumour the others have mentioned, as unquestionably true. this may or may not turn out; it's in my 'to be fact-checked" file. i've done a little checking online so far.
some teddy notes:
kennedy template:
lies like a dog.
cheats
treats women as headboard notches.
drinks too much.
reckless driving
caught reckless driving 4 times.
instigated plane crash that killed 2.
absent father
depends on servants
emotionally withdrawn
joan kennedy:
drinks too much
reckless driving
teddy:
expelled from harvard for cheating,
tried to cover it up.
ordered by father to run for office, grew into role later.
prominant mistresses? went after judith davis (is it davis? wrong name?), the one who dated sam flood.
who killed kennedy? frank sinatra.
frank sinatra set up kennedy with davis, who was go between with "sam flood" sam giancanni, chicago mobster. already hired by fbi to kill castro before kennedy, probably worked for joe kennedy bootlegging.
giancanni linked to cuba/new orleans mobsters who recruited oswald.
oswald was patsy, modus operandi is you get a 'lone gunman' nutcase,then whack him afterwards. jack ruby directly linked to mob. there you have it.
that's what lindy thought anyway.
this does not yet explain sirhan sirhan or does it.
warren commission was whitewash so bobby could cover up mob connection to preserve john's legacy - but it came out anyway by now.
joe jr - plane crash. several die.
john - pt boat sunk. 2 die. more recklessness with next pt boat.
rolled a car near paris. need dates for all these.
bay of pigs - 100 die. missle crisis, 100s million emperilled.
kathleen/kick. plane crash. 4 die. instigated by her boyfriend.
bobby - tries to hit castro
teddy. 4 reckless driving incidents involving cops. lots more without.
plane crash - 2 die. birch bayh lives.
chappaquiddick. 1 dies.
ran for pres 76.
joan - car wreck, no deaths, drunk.
pat and peter: how many car wrecks?
honey fitz:
used gansgters to rig congressional election. joe involved directly.
had mistresses, blantant about it. set the pattern?
patrick kennedy - didn't drink. sold booze. took bribes. rigged elections.
patrick kennedy's wife - sister of mayor. ambitious. social climber.
jean - married smith, bagman,
eunice, one more.
rosemary, lobotomized by joe, probably not molested by joe.
sg shriver - social climber. ran for vp 72.
maria shriver - married gov califonia. future pres candidate?
wm kenndy smith - rape allegations. teddy involved.
john-john - was he the one who died in plane crash? or was that a joe?
caroline kennedy townsend - which one is she? jacks or bobby's? gov of maryland.
it's going to take awhile before i get any of this solid.
these are a few getting-started notes.
how bored am i?
i just bought memoirs by
john kenneth galbraith and dan quayle. $1.
posted by gt @ 3:32 PM
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back at the ranch.
the john kenneth galbraith is surprizingly good.
we go from joe shumpter at p 50 to joe kennedy junior p 54. interestingly, joe jr was, to galbraith, the serious student, and was liked by professors, while jfk was busy drinking chasing girls being social, and not seen as a serious student, so was not respectd by the professors.
galbraith was like a dorm mom at the jock dorm that teddy and joe and i think jack lived at.
galbraith is a canadian scotch farmer, and writes with a dry wit. many readers would miss some of his jokes as even being jokes, but i njoy that sort of thing. so im having fun with it. not just because i finished off the nitrous in the can of whipped cream i put in my coffee. it's a rainy saturday and i'm headed back to bed with the book.
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