Joseph Kennedy, Sr. became the youngest bank president in U.S. history, at just twenty five years of age. We have been told he was a scoundrel. A bootlegger. In bed with the mafia. Who cheated on his wife with actress Gloria Swanson. A man who used his fortune to buy his unqualified son the presidency. As always, we are being lied to.

In 1937, a young JFK wrote, "Adolf Hitler is among the greatest of men. The old trust him, and the youth idolize him. It is the veneration of a national hero who has served his country." In 1945, on the verge of first running for political office, JFK declared, "Hitler will emerge from the hatred currently surrounding him in a few years as one of the most important personalities that ever lived." JFK also stated that Hitler "had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made." That same year, JFK toured Europe with his father's close friend James Forrestal, who became Truman's Secretary of Defense, and was later pushed out a window at Bethesda Naval Hospital. By an amazing coincidence, Forrestal happened to be one of the most vocal critics of the newly created state of Israel.

In 1939, twenty two year old John F. Kennedy visited Palestine, which definitely did exist despite the protestations of modern Zionists, and left his impressions in a remarkably insightful letter to his father. I nearly included this letter as an Appendix to my book American Memory Hole. In his opening line, JFK reveals that he and his father have discussed this subject before: "Dear Dad: I thought I would write you my impressions on Palestine while they were still fresh in my mind, though you undoubtedly, if I know the Jews, know the 'whole' story. It is worth while looking at it in its entirety." JFK writes, "On the Jewish side there is the desire for complete domination, with Jerusalem as the capital of their new land of milk and honey, with the right colonize in Trans-Jordan. They feel that given sufficient opportunity they can cultivate the land and develop it as they have done in the Western portion. The Arab answer to this is incidentally, that the Jews have had the benefit of capital, which had the Arabs possessed, equal miracles could have been performed by them."

Showing a keen awareness and intellectual maturity for someone so young, Kennedy goes on to describe how, "There were 13 bombs set off my last evening there, all in the Jewish quarter and all set off by Jews. The ironical part is that the Jewish terrorists bomb their own telephone lines and electric connections and the next day frantically phone the British to come and fix them up….The sympathy of the people on the spot seems to be with the Arabs. This is not only because the Jews have had, at least some of their leaders, an unfortunately arrogant, uncompromising attitude, but they feel that after all, the country has been Arabic for the last few hundred years…" Old Joe was an unsurprising critic of financing and creating the modern state of Israel. It is impossible to imagine all those legendary dinner conversations with his children without his strong views influencing them.