A connection with the Underworld.
Friends of Rob Ford may have enjoyed the documentary “JFK’s Women: Scandals Revealed,” which the CBC showed last Saturday in the series The Passionate Eye.
From the press release:
“During his campaign for the Presidency in early 1960, Kennedy began a relationship with a young divorcee, Judith Campbell Exner. Campbell was an intimate of some of America’s powerful Mafia bosses. The film reveals evidence that eye witnesses believed the meeting between Campbell and Kennedy was engineered by the Mafia, as a way of gaining influence over a potential future President.
“The film shows how JFK grew up in a liberal Boston family in which the men were expected to have mistresses. During the war, he had a relationship with a Danish journalist, Inge Arvad, who was suspected of having Nazi connections. He was warned to stop the affair, but he persisted. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover kept tape recordings of JFK’s love-making to Arvad. It was the beginning of a lifelong tension between the two men.
“Using new documentary evidence and recently released FBI files, the film goes on to demolish the hagiographic myth of JFK and Camelot that still persists over 40 years after his death. Even by 1963, JFK continued to be reckless in his personal life. His belief that he was untouchable, despite his blatant and extreme womanising, threatened to lead to his political downfall.”
A video about Rob Ford’s connections will no doubt be shown in the near future.
