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Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. He is known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children and was a patriarch of the Kennedy family, which included President John F. Kennedy, attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime senator Ted Kennedy.
Alluding to the research of Daniel Okrent and 2012 Joseph Kennedy biographer David Nasaw, Logevall agreed that there was little substantive evidence in the widely held belief that Joseph Kennedy partnered with mob figures to make a part of his fortune in bootlegging during Prohibition in the 1920s. As Logevall noted, Joseph Kennedy did expand ...
Joseph P. Kennedy: Father of the Kennedy brothers. After making his fortune as a bootlegger during Prohibition , he has loaned millions of dollars to the mafia through the Teamsters Pension Fund. Jimmy Hoffa : President of the Teamsters union, Hoffa maintains close connections to organized crime, lending the mafia millions of dollars through ...
Here, Eunice Shriver, Jacqueline Onassis, Kara Kennedy and her dad, Teddy (at the time a Democratic candidate for president), and Ethel Kennedy hanging out together. Bettmann - Getty Images 1980
Joseph P. Kennedy's mistress Janet Fontaine gives intriguing details about her nine-year affair with one of the most powerful men in America. Kennedy patriarch's mistress tells all, says his wife ...
In 1941, Joe Kennedy Sr. organized for his daughter, then 23, to have a lobotomy, with disastrous consequences. Eunice and Rosemary Kennedy pictured aboard the S. S. Manhattan in New York in 1938 ...
Reinfeld started Reinfeld Importers (later Renfield Importers), a liquor import and distribution company, which bought Somerset Importers from Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. in 1946. The company distributed various brands, including Haig & Haig and King William IV scotch whiskeys, Gordon's gin and vodka, Rémy Martin cognac, Piper-Heidsieck champagne ...
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