i was just asked who killed the literal kennedy, so here's my theory based on my historical research over the years: his dad killed him by accident - but he was trying to have jackie assassinated. he hated how much control jackie had over both jfk and rfk. she protected them outside the joe kennedy model because she was from old french society. she knew everyone and everything. joe concluded he couldn't direct jfk policy toward his desired goal with jackie "meddling" as he saw it, and several of his plans were foiled because she outsmarted him. jfk would have been a shoe-in for re-election with a murdered wife and a widower father. he would have gotten 90% of the vote easily. joe was early underground intelligence, before the literal cia existed. anyway: that's my theory. sometimes the simplest answer makes the most sense. no one wants to think their parents will ruin their lives/kill them. they will. it's more common than you might imagine.