Joseph P. Kennedy

Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. (1888–1969) was a prominent American businessman and political figure, and the father of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He was a leading member of the Democratic Party and of the Irish Catholic community. He served briefly as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom at the start of World War II.

Joseph P. Kennedy in Southern Victory
Joseph P. Kennedy (b 1888) was a Democratic Party operative in Boston in the 1920s and 30s. Kennedy recruited Sylvia Enos to appear at political functions after she became a folk hero for avenging her husband, George Enos, on his murderer, Confederate war criminal Roger Kimball.

Kennedy attempted to seduce Sylvia, and was frustrated by her consistent refusals--especially after she began an affair with Ernie (an affair which cost her her life).

Kennedy despised Al Smith, in spite of their shared religion, because of Smith's staunch Socialist views.

He was the father of Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. and the husband of Rose Kennedy, to whom he was very often unfaithful.

Despite a capacity for vindictiveness, and despite his anger at Sylvia Enos for spurning him, Kennedy helped secure her son, George Enos, Jr.'s discharge from the Navy after the Second Great War ended.