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Home Front: Culture Wars
RFK widow Ethel Kennedy ‘loves' Che Guevara, ‘has a subversive streak'
2020-04-16
Ooooooooh. Wait — does anyone care about the Kennedys anymore? I’ve lost track.
[New York Post] Ethel Kennedy has learned to stop worrying and love Che Guevara.
Golly — cutting edge back in 1967. But the Kennedys didn’t choose wives for their brains.
The 92-year-old Kennedy clan matriarch’s late husband Robert and brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, may have faced off against a Russia-aligned Cuba in the infamous 1962 Missile Crisis — but that didn’t stop her from putting the face of the communist nation’s revolutionary hero on a mantle at her Palm Beach home, The Post has learned.

In fact, her family says she’s been a fan of Guevara for years — and makes no apology about it.

"My mom loves Che Guevara. Her dog is named Che," her son, Robert Kennedy Jr., told The Post. "My mom has a subversive streak."

Ethel Kennedy’s status as comrade to the late Cuban revolution hero was outed inadvertently when her granddaughter, Mariah Kennedy Cuomo — one of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s daughters — posted a picture to Twitter of the family celebrating the nonagenarian’s birthday at her Florida home.

In the background, was a framed picture of the late Guevara on a mantle. After the April 11 image was posted, Kennedy Cuomo apparently got red in the face and scrubbed it from the internet.

But a source shared it with The Post, and Robert Kennedy Jr. admitted his mom was not only a fan of Guevara, but also a fan of JFK’s biggest nemesis.

"She had a very good relationship with [Fidel] Castro," Robert Kennedy Jr. said. He said she met the late dictator several times in Cuba and claimed she once persuaded him to release political prisoners.

The love of Che seems to clash with the ardent anti-communist views of both former President Kennedy and her husband, RFK, who was gunned down in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, as he campaigned for president.

JFK sought to overthrow Cuba’s Communist regime during the botched Bay of Pigs invasion.

But RFK Jr. said emissaries to his uncle were working right before the president’s Nov. 22, 1963 assassination to work out a detente with Castro. He said JFK didn’t want Cuba to become a platform for the Soviet Union.

Guevara was a top aide and confidante to Castro
...that's one way to describe the murderous little sadist...
before he was killed in 1967 in Bolivia, while leading an attempt to overthrow the government there. He has gone on to become an icon to American leftists and the famous photo of him has become a popular t-shirt fad.
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Ethel Kennedy: 2019-08-02 Robert F. Kennedy granddaughter reportedly dies at compound in Massachusetts
Ethel Kennedy: 2014-03-01 Kerry Kennedy skates on drugged driving charge
Ethel Kennedy: 2009-08-27 Time's Klein Recalls Meeting a Drunk Ted Kennedy While High on Pot
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Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#18  I understand Brennan's got Che's hands mounted in a little shrine.
Posted by: KBK   2020-04-16 18:49  

#17  The one that just died in Chesapeake with her kid put a canoe in the water to go after a beach ball, probably because of guilt over it being pollution. Not a brain trust sort of scenario.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-16 15:01  

#16  ^ given that his wife turned out to be an insane harridan, that's forgivable. Greater men have done much worse
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-16 12:25  

#15  Adoration of a century old failed economic policy that has killed millions and caused hundreds of millions to live in poverty and near slavery is so subversive.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-04-16 12:25  

#14  Bobby was all in all a brave and wise man who deserved much better

Except for when he was pumping Mary Jo, then passed her on to Ted.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-04-16 12:00  

#13  Is she still a black out drunk at 92?
Posted by: Regular joe   2020-04-16 10:03  

#12  Given Che's "hateful" response to gays and blacks, Ima thinkrn he would be a closeted Jussie Smollett fanboy today. He was covering up
Posted by: Frank G   2020-04-16 09:58  

#11  She'll be ok I tell ya, if someone can simply keep her away from the water.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-04-16 09:38  

#10  The Collier-Horowitz book on the clan is really appalling-- in Bobby's case, really sad.

Ethel was and is a nutjob. Bobby was all in all a brave and wise man who deserved much better. The only one of the Kennedy men worth looking up to. The nation suffered a terrible loss on June 5, 1968.
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-16 09:35  

#9  Let me know when another member of the Kennedy clan winds up in the water.
Posted by: Raj   2020-04-16 09:31  

#8  Not surprising coming from that tyrannical clan.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-04-16 08:59  

#7  Poor Bobby. He really married badly.
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-16 07:29  

#6  Crickets
Posted by: Clem   2020-04-16 07:03  

#5  Speaking of murderess Marxist revolutionaries does she have any thoughts about Lee Harvey Oswald.
Posted by: Airandee   2020-04-16 06:59  

#4  ...or it appears engaged in serial hair sniffing.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-16 06:24  

#3  ^Well, at least he wasn't bothering school girls.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-16 03:45  

#2  Got around with people's wives, I mean.
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-04-16 03:42  

#1  She had a very good relationship with [Fidel] Castro

Boy, that guy got around.
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-04-16 03:41  

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