hopefully at christmas. with all our love, mother. the fbi was doing anything they could to attempt to locate these people. and they were not being successful. they were living under assumed names. they were renting multiple apartments under assumed names. they were making it almost impossible for us to find them. these people really knew what they were doing. and then what had happened was, we had developed information that wendy yoshimura s fingerprints had been found in homesdale, pennsylvania, in a farmhouse. and we d received the information from a gentleman by the name of walter scott. jack s brother was a very troubled man. and he was drunk and went into the fbi office and said, hey, i think patty hearst was in this farmhouse.
names. they were renting multiple apartments under assumed names. they were making it almost impossible for us to find them. these people really knew what they were doing. and then what had happened was, we had developed information that wendy yoshimura s fingerprints had been found in homesdale, pennsylvania, in a farmhouse. and we d received the information from a gentleman by the name of walter scott. jack s brother was a very troubled man. and he was drunk and went into the fbi office and said, hey, i think patty hearst was in this farmhouse. we wiped down the entire house. every surface got cleaned with bleach and cleaners. they ended up finding, inside of a mattress, a piece of newspaper that had wendy s fingerprint on
dictatorship based on race. we re still seeing intense violence. lynching is still the reality. if you were black, you couldn t vote. you couldn t buy property. you couldn t go certain places. i said i m sorry, our management does not allow us to serve niggers in here. while jfk is looking at the moon and stars, you see real hypocrisy and contradiction. how can the united states be a democracy if its citizens are killing, are hurting, are hospitalizing its other citizens? but in the spring of 1961, john f. kennedy and his brother, robert, didn t care that much about civil rights. jack and bobby kennedy grew up rich and privileged. they never saw any african-americans other than people who waited on tables.
he didn t want anybody to think that jack kennedy was not his own man. jack knows that traditionally american presidents are judged by their first 100 days. jack kennedy saw himself as an historic figure. he saw himself as somebody who could lead the country into a new golden age. now, it was a golden age tinged by shadow because 1961 was the height or the depth of the cold war. america and the soviet union are locked in a titanic ideological struggle. the u.s. is terrified of the spread of communism as it reaches the nation s backyard. cuba is under the control of the fiery revolutionary fidel castro. he was not only a communist and a marxist, but he was going to align himself with the soviet
now it is time to take longer strides, time for a great new american enterprise. the soviets have already put the first man into space, and after the bay of pigs fiasco, jack cannot afford for america to be left behind. the united states was engaged in a space race with the russian. we weren t trying to just beat the soviets militarily. we were trying to beat them to new frontiers. this is the kennedy approach to life which is win at all the costs. it is not good enough to come in second. and that was what they were told by their father from the time they were little children. as jack projects the superiority of his country around the world, back at home a desperate struggle for civil rights is tearing america apart. if you re african-american in the united states in the 60s, you re not living in a democracy. you re living under an apartheid