Talk:Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
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Perhaps I'm getting my Kennedys mixed up, but isn't Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. also supposed to have been concerned with bootlegging during prohibition? Assuming these allegations haven't been entirely dismissed, we should be able to make a NPOV mention of them? Our page for Kathleen Kennedy states the allegations as flat fact. -- Finlay McWalter 15:25, 8 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- I'd say it should be moved here if true (I've taken it out of the Kathleen Kennedy article since it's irrelevant to her). It seems to me I have heard that about Joseph, but I can't remember where and can't find a source at the moment or I'd add it. - Hephaestos 15:31, 8 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- There's plenty of google hits for "joseph kennedy bootlegger", but I don't know how much faith we can put in them. I do think it's fair to say that there are "persistent allegations" that he was involved with bootlegging. -- Finlay McWalter 15:36, 8 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Yes; we could attribute it to the Sins of the Father book at least. - Hephaestos 15:41, 8 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Why are the pictures missing? Colipon 05:00, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Discussion is from a long time ago, but there is certainly no serious evidence he was a bootlegger, he cunningly acquired the licences to import medicinal alcohol and predicted the passage of the Consitutional amendment through the required number of states that lifted Prohibition. By the 1920's JPK was a very wealthy and politically ambitious man (remember he had thoughts of becoming a Cabinet Secretary and quite possibly the POTUS_ and did not have the motive to be involved in manufacturing illegal alcohol. Makes for a nice story for hatchet job biographers but just isn't the case. The truth is less interesting. 144.132.89.151 01:39, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Was he Irish?
Spanish Civil War
I think that this article may give Joe Sr. entirely too much credit for keeping the US out of the Spanish Civil War. Even had his reports from London strongly urged intervention, condemned Franco, or downplayed Communist influence in the Republican movement any significan US involvement in the conflict would have remained extremely unlikely. I also quibble a bit with the statement about Americans being strongly for the Republicans. At most Americans sympathized with Madrid; certainly no clear majority and nothing approaching 60/40 until '37 or '38 when intervention was completely out of the question. Not a serious flaw to the article, just something future editors may want to consider.
I concur--JimWae 20:24, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)