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Book Review of The Dark Side of Camelot

The Dark Side of Camelot
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The book makes you want to believe there was a conspiracy to kill John Kennedy, even though the author disagrees. Further, the book makes you want to know who conspired to kill him, so you can write and thank them.

If Kennedy hadn't been killed, there was an excellent chance he would be reelected. Then Robert Kennedy, just as amoral as his older brother, might have been president for another eight years, as the Kennedys were conspiring to replace Johnson on the ticket, with Robert Kennedy being his brother's new vice-presidential candidate. What is interesting, is they were leaking to the Republicans sordid details about pay-offs to Johnson which paled compared to the pay-offs the Kennedys were receiving.

What I also found interesting in that Vietnamese President Diem supposedly wanted Americans out of Viet Nam in 1963, but Kennedy, realizing it would hurt his chances to be reelected, wanted to postpone that until 1965, after he had been reelected.

As a result, I and so many others got to take an all-expense-paid vacation in Southeast Asia. The fact that God alone knows how many people were killed or injured in some way didn't seem to bother Kennedy and his brother Robert.

Read this book and discover how the Kennedy administration makes recent presidential administrations look good by comparison. If that is possible.