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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (704856)	3/18/2013 5:22:03 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573857

so JFK screwed the blackman for his own benefit...that's typical of a Kennedy and liberals. remember ted ran away when he could have saved mary jo

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (704856)	3/18/2013 5:24:39 PM
From: longnshort	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573857

After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy gave a series of interviews with Anthony Lewis and John Bartlow Martin about his brother’s political career for the “John F. Kennedy Library” on the understanding that they would not be published in his lifetime. In fact, the interviews did not appear until the publication of “Robert Kennedy in his Own Words” in 1988. In these interviews RFK is very honest about their attitude towards the subject of civil rights. For example, he admits that JFK voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act. He confesses that because of their privileged life-styles, they only black people they knew when they were young were servants. In an interview with Anthony Lewis (4th December, 1964), RFK explains that they were not interested in the subject of civil rights: “We weren’t thinking of the Negroes in Mississippi or Alabama – what should be done for them. We were thinking of what needed to be done in Massachusetts.”

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (704856)	3/19/2013 12:44:53 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573857

>Part of the political strategy to hold the votes of the South for the 1960 election....you remember that one, don't you? The wingnuts here pull this one out from time to time, but from what I can tell it isn't true. Message 28688031 I've dug and dug and dug but I cannot find original sources that say that Kennedy voted against the bill. I've gone through the Congressional record, I've gone through a history book on the topic, but nothing. Quotes from him at the time make it sound like he was pretty darned happy when it passed. And their new hero Rand Paul STILL doesn't support the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -Z