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If you have not read it, I suggest The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh. Hersh is Pulitzer Prize winner famous for his left-wing reporting of the Vietnam War's My Lai and domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency. So one must assume his revealing a truck load of JFK's history that the left does not want reported comes closer to the truth than if this were offered up by an conservative writer.

I was 13-year old just entering teenage-hood when Kennedy ran in 1960 and his look and wit won me over but by the time the 1964 election rolled around, I had matured enough to honestly see both the forest and the trees. I was then Press Chairman for the Harris County Youth for Goldwater & Des Berry. I continue my conservative politics to this day.

BTW watch the 2011 mini-series "The Kennedy's" DVD or streaming on Netflix as Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes hit home runs as Jack and Jackie.

I was a bit older, but still starry eyed (21). By the time of the assassination, I remember remarking to my husband that I didn’t think he’d be re-elected.

BTW, I’ve read Hersh’s book. It really depressed me. REALLY! I read it the same weekend that I read one of the tomes on Clinton. Those 2 books left me in a deep sorrow. There is another one out there; I think it’s called the Fitgeralds — or the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. My Gawd. I hated Old Joe after that one. Just his name gives me chills. They were all a pretty trampy crew — not at all as the press portrayed them in the 1960s.