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Hell of Presidents: Episode 11 - Jack Does Dallas

🕑 Added 2023-12-13 12:00:10 +0000 UTC

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Andy Kraushaar

Kennedy wasn't popular in Texas??? No way.

Marxist-Swoletarianist

Extremely late but The Great Exception by Jefferson Cowie is pretty much exactly what you’re looking for.

No Relation to Henry

The obsession that American Catholics (particularly Irish Catholic Democrats) had with the Kennedys is quite a phenomenon. My mom comes from a large Catholic and part Irish family. She was born in 1963, before the assassination, and would’ve been named John if she was a boy. That honor went to my uncle John (middle name Fitzgerald) the following year. My mom also jokes sometimes that she “knew Jackie Kennedy” growing up because there was a Kennedy family in their town who of course named their daughter Jacqueline.

No Relation to Henry

They kinda touched on it but breezed past it.

Bryce Keaton

Arkansas mentioned

James Powers

does anyone have some good reading material recs on the new deal era that they talked about at the beginning?

Gabriel Costello

Loving this series so much. Makes me miss Matt’s insight that much more. Wishing him well.

Scot Forsythe

Tearing up my theatre seat rn listening to Bill Haley

SlowTrickle

We got a military, UK got social democracy. “Weapons, not homes, not shoes, not need, just feed the war cannibal animal”

Jim Chapman

Did I miss the Cuban Missile Crisis, or did our heroes not discuss it?

WingsOfJupiter

Where's the link to the full explanation on the Killing of the King masonic ritual? Dallas has always seemed like an evil place.

will michel

chris i have also always objected to that stupid dumbass kennedy quote. if you can’t ask what your country can do for you then what’s even the point of having a country at all

Ty Drown

Lodge was also Eisenhower’s campaign manager while running against Kennedy in the 1952 senate race. There’s a great book, “Kennedy Versus Lodge: The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race” on the topic. At some point Kennedy ally Joe McCarthy was reluctantly forced to campaign for Lodge who also didn’t like McCarthy and his wing.

Clammy_Damp

I wish I had a butt ton of money to go with my “all the worst genes of county Cork”

John Leavitt

Wasn’t Joe Jr basically killed piloting a primitive drone?

Whucko Jaang

Babushka lady cannot miss.

drewb

a pal of mine lost his job at a supermarket in the Scottish central belt after revealing that he went to catholic school, and this was in the late 2000s. The "joke" being that protestants, especially Scottish ones, are just as moronic and regressive as the most obsessive papists It's frustrating because without a doubt the catholic church is one of the most regressive institutions on the planet that has inflicted an untold degree of suffering in its existence, but that's by and large not the fault of individual lay catholics

Fingerless

fascinating how anti-catholic prejudice has been an animating force in anglosphere reaction as recently as my parents lifetime. i heard a conversation on the radio that at an Australian legal practice in the 60s, there was a policy to never hire catholic women because they were just gonna get pregnant

The Children of Jack Acid

"The Swinging Dick Conqueror of Europe!" was replaced by "I Like Ike" as a campaign slogan at the very last minute, only when they realized their anthropomorphic dick campaign mascot looked like a swollen Florida.