Jack Kennedy’s brother Joe Kennedy died in World War II in a navy aviation accident as a hero. They took a B-17 plane and flew it over the English Channel, aiming to go into France to blow up places where we thought V-1, V-2, and V-3 parts were. Instead Kennedy’s plane blew up in the sky. He basically died taking out von Braun’s hardware. And here it is 1953. Jack Kennedy and Wernher von Braun are judges for Time’s Person of the Year together in New York, and they get along fabulously. Kennedy didn’t hold his Nazi past against him, because they were twentieth-century men. Kennedy trusted in
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