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[30] <strong>Final</strong> <strong>Judgment</strong> 91<br />

Jack the first Irish Catholic President of the United States and if it means<br />

working with the Jews, so be it. I'm in sympathy with what you're doing,<br />

Hooker'," Kennedy said, 'but I'm not going to do anything that will ruin<br />

Jack's chances to become president."' 43<br />

Hooker was, of course, disappointed by Kennedy's response and<br />

ultimately his "fourth" network failed to get off the ground. However,<br />

Hooker at least had the satisfaction of knowing that he and the Kennedy<br />

family were on the same wavelength—even if they were willing to<br />

compromise those views for political gain.<br />

THE NAZIS 'ENDORSE' NIXON<br />

As they parted at the end of their Palm Beach meeting, Hooker asked<br />

Kennedy if there was anything he could do to help the Kennedy family.<br />

"Yes, as a matter of fact, there is something you can do." responded Joe<br />

Kennedy. "I'd like you to use your contacts in the right-wing. Have them<br />

start publishing articles accusing Jack of being controlled by the Jews, of<br />

being a Jewish puppet. This will have the effect of neutralizing Jewish<br />

opposition to Jack (because of me).<br />

"The Jews know my views and naturally they'll assume that Jack is a<br />

chip off the old block. If the right wing starts hitting Jack this will give the<br />

Jews second thoughts—at least the ones who do the voting." 44<br />

Hooker promised Kennedy he would do what he could. And being a man<br />

of his word, Hooker did influence his right-wing contacts as Kennedy had<br />

asked. Hooker encouraged his friend, Nazi leader Rockwell, and other "right<br />

wingers" to smear John F. Kennedy as JFK's father had suggested. His<br />

efforts succeed.<br />

As one chronicle of the 1960 campaign noted: "The American Nazi<br />

Party helped too by throwing its support to Richard Nixon—"Nazis for<br />

Nixon, Kikes for Kennedy" was one of its slogans. Another of its placards<br />

read, "FDR and JFK mean JEW deal." 45<br />

This, of course, was inspired by JFK's father and carried out through<br />

the good offices of DeWest Hooker and his friend George Lincoln Rockwell,<br />

although the historian who penned the description of Rockwell's<br />

sloganeering probably had no idea that it was indirectly the work of Joe<br />

Kennedy.<br />

"Frankly," Hooker says to this day, "As far as I'm concerned, it was my<br />

work that got Johnny Kennedy in the White House." 46 (Hooker's claim is<br />

not completely off the mark, inasmuch as American Jewish leaders claimed<br />

themselves at the time that it was Jewish support for John F. Kennedy that<br />

gave him his narrow victory over Nixon in the 1960 election.)<br />

This interesting—and revealing—episode is not likely to be<br />

memorialized at the John F. Kennedy Library at Harvard or in any friendly<br />

biographies of the Kennedy family. However, there can be little doubt that<br />

Israel and its American lobby had a fairly good idea of what was going on<br />

behind the scenes.

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