Joseph Kennedy Sr. person
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Claims (17)
William O. Douglas succeeded
Joseph Kennedy Sr. book_quoted
“taking over as chairman of the SEC from Joseph Kennedy in 1937 and becoming a fixture in the president's inner circle, frequently a guest at Camp David. While serving at the SEC, Douglas had become a pariah of the financial industry. Banker…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 29:22
Joseph Kennedy Sr. financed
RKO Studios book_quoted
“financing RKO Studios when they were making the transition to sound movies. And that was a massive investment. And that was arranged through by Joe Kennedy. So I strongly recommend this book. I'm not saying that Joe Kennedy was a saint or f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:06:22
Joseph Kennedy Sr. member_of
Choate Rosemary Hall host_asserted
“William Randolph first. John F. Kennedy himself went there. JFK. So did Joseph Kennedy Jr. How about Adlai Stevenson? Two-time presidential candidate. And the last name that jumped off that page that went to school there was none other than…”
▶ The Shadow State 42- Secret Societies 25 - WAR PIGS 2025-06-06 @ 54:37
Joseph Kennedy Sr. involved_with
Mafia host_asserted
“Yeah. I mean, growing up, wasn't he kind of privy to the shenanigans and the shady stuff going on? What do you think? So that's hard to say. There are instances, especially when you're very young. And Joe Kennedy, while he was involved in t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 1:01:27
Robert F. Kennedy member_of
Joseph Kennedy Sr. documented
“Kennedy was in many ways a strange liberal icon because he grew up idolizing Herbert Hoover, was closest in his family to his father Joseph, the millionaire business tycoon, began his career supporting Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Operation Gladio look into RFKs Murder @ 3:21
John F. Kennedy added_to_book
Joseph Kennedy Sr. book_quoted
“Going as far as to add his late brother's name to an honorable roster of political heroes Kennedy wrote about in his book, Profiles in Courage. It was Jackie Kennedy who tipped off Dulles to the pleasures of James Bond, giving him a copy of…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 4:18
Joseph Kennedy Sr. worked_for
Securities and Exchange Commission host_asserted
“to the UK for FDR. FDR was not a good guy. And so if you look at his role in the administration of FDR, particularly the Maritime Commission, which, you know, is drug related and the moving of goods around. And also he goes on to be the SEC…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:04:03
Joseph Kennedy Sr. worked_for
Federal Maritime Commission host_asserted
“to the UK for FDR. FDR was not a good guy. And so if you look at his role in the administration of FDR, particularly the Maritime Commission, which, you know, is drug related and the moving of goods around. And also he goes on to be the SEC…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:04:03
Joseph Kennedy Sr. met_with
Winston Churchill host_asserted
“He knew all those people. He worked with those people. And if I'm right, when he went over to meet with Churchill, he didn't want us to get into World War II. Because when you look at setting up in Europe and over here to, you know, because…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 59:01
Joseph Kennedy Sr. financial_dealings_with
Franklin D. Roosevelt host_asserted
“Working for and what is their real motive? So I think there's a combination. I think both things can be true. I think things are overstated in many areas. But here's here's one of the particular things about him that I found very interestin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:06:51
Joseph Kennedy Sr. appointed
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Big deal. No one gets to be the ambassador to UK from the US unless you are a very well-connected guy. And that leverage, whatever the leverage was, that leverage was used to get his son into the presidency. And his son decided to clean up …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:10:06
Joseph Kennedy Sr. member_of
AFL-CIO caller_asserted
“since the early 1940s. That's great. Thanks, Colonel. Sure. Jeff, go ahead. Good morning, Colonel Towner. How are you doing this morning? Good. I wanted to elaborate on what you were speaking on from yesterday's podcast that John F. Kennedy…”
▶ Operation Gladio -France Part 2 @ 1:44:10
Joseph Kennedy Sr. traded_network_to
Sam Giancana caller_asserted
“since the early 1940s. That's great. Thanks, Colonel. Sure. Jeff, go ahead. Good morning, Colonel Towner. How are you doing this morning? Good. I wanted to elaborate on what you were speaking on from yesterday's podcast that John F. Kennedy…”
▶ Operation Gladio -France Part 2 @ 1:44:10
Joseph Kennedy Sr. member_of
United Kingdom host_asserted
“They didn't like Joe and they were going to get rid of all of his kids because they were worried that they would get into politics. So it's kind of interesting. I think the Japanese were tipped off where PT-109 was because they were sitting…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 1:21:07
Joseph Kennedy Sr. recruited
Mafia host_asserted
“At the last minute, JFK's dad does a deal with the mafia. We are not going to prosecute you. We need you to sway all these union people, vote for my son, blah, blah, blah.…”
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Joseph Kennedy Sr. installed
John F. Kennedy guest_asserted
“JFK wasn't necessarily the guy they wanted, but there was a deal struck by his dad in order to get him selected.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 51:13
Joseph Kennedy Sr. funded
CIA host_asserted
“It's another great story, another great story about Kennedy. And, you know, Joseph Kennedy did take the money from the unions. And I think that the steel company was just another example of another reason why they didn't want the Kennedys a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 1:40:47
Mentions (66)
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access here in the United States increased five times. So I don't think he was a good president in any way, shape or form. I had a quick question about him because like he was supposedly the one who actually won the election back in 1960. A…
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JFK's dad and the get out to vote to try to bring JFK over because that was like a squeaker election. And there was mafia involvement in there. And supposedly the deal was struck that JFK would be light on the mafia if they got him the job.…
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the one that was going to win. Nixon was, right? Nixon was the vice president for Eisenhower. Nixon was going to be the 1960 shoe-in sworn in in 1961, just to follow on with what they were doing. At the last minute, JFK's dad does a deal wi…
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got in office with RFK and was overwhelmed by the criminality of our government and decided to renege on that deal. He could not in good conscience go along with the criminality that he found inside our government. So that's what I've come …
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JFK wasn't necessarily the guy they wanted, but there was a deal struck by his dad in order to get him selected. So he gets in office, but he basically begins disassembling this entire thing. He tells the CIA, you're going to be gone. He fi…
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wrote a very interesting book. I have the book. I've never read it. He basically kind of did a biography of Joseph P. Kennedy, which I find very interesting since he primarily worked for Republicans, although he does have some dealings with…
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brought in line with what, you know, Gladio and I guess NATO or CIA, what they were up to? Is that fair to say? So I have not looked at every one of the French, but during the different Gladio operations that I'm aware of that happened in F…
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But you can't underestimate JFK either because he kind of grew up in that mafia kind of because, you know, his dad was intimately involved in that with Prohibition and all of that stuff. So there's kind of a big mystery around the entire wh…
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JFK's dad's involvement in getting him elected. I don't think there's been a single president post-FDR that has not been selected, not elected, not won until Trump. And Trump was only elected because we broke their algorithms in 2016 and sh…
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since the early 1940s. That's great. Thanks, Colonel. Sure. Jeff, go ahead. Good morning, Colonel Towner. How are you doing this morning? Good. I wanted to elaborate on what you were speaking on from yesterday's podcast that John F. Kennedy…
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the Italians, Sam Gacchione in particular. And then before that, he was the bootlegger that worked with the Rothstein guy and the Italians to import liquor into the United States during Prohibition. So their ties with the underground is qui…
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A picture of which I appreciate because I was going to do that today anyway. Go to my timeline and look at that. It's just freaking amazing that train station. But let me add something. Andy, if you would turn your speaker off for me. Thank…
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That was the thing that when I first started digging into the correlation, once I found out about Otto Skorzeny and the OAS and their role in the assassination of JFK. And then you have to look at JFK. And I kind of did a little bit of read…
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When I think he was in charge of the Navy, which he had no experience over in England. It was just through his family. And he actually sent a wire back. I'm leaving from Portugal. And if something happens to my ship, this was Joe Kennedy. I…
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They didn't like Joe and they were going to get rid of all of his kids because they were worried that they would get into politics. So it's kind of interesting. I think the Japanese were tipped off where PT-109 was because they were sitting…
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We know that Joe Kennedy was running, you know, illicit moonshine and all that other crap. So he was in the club. He was in tight with all of the unions and the mafia bosses. But at some point they break from the club. And that has to do wi…
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James Killian, General John Hull, Jimmy Doolittle, who shows up again with the guy, remember we talked about Doolittle and his working with William Polly, who was instrumental in setting up Gladio, and Omar Bradley, and Joe Kennedy, like in…
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And then who's his grandfather? He had a grandfather that was involved in all of this as well. And I can't think of his name right now. Lansing. But they keep it close in the family. Well, I know a lot of people don't like the Kennedy famil…
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He knew all those people. He worked with those people. And if I'm right, when he went over to meet with Churchill, he didn't want us to get into World War II. Because when you look at setting up in Europe and over here to, you know, because…
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or a telegram back to the U.S., if the ship that I'm on sinks, Churchill sank it. So, I think if you go back in time, and again, I've read different views of Joe Kennedy. Joe Kennedy was definitely in the criminal syndicate. He was into the…
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He was deeply embedded in it. There are some people that believe that he wanted his son to be president to basically take over the operational aspects of the syndicate. There are other people that firmly believe that he saw too much of the …
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Now, you are free to do your own research and come up with your own conclusions. What we know happened is, regardless of whether it was at the insistence of his father or not, once he had his father's support in becoming president, because …
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Again, just reading history, it's clear he fought the system. At what point he began fighting the system, you can make an argument on when that happened. But it definitely happened. Colonel? Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, on that Joe Kennedy note, I…
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I don't know if you're familiar or even if the people listening are familiar, so I'm going to tell you. There is a very weird thing that goes on between anybody that's appointed from the United States to be the ambassador to the UK. There's…
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to the UK for FDR. FDR was not a good guy. And so if you look at his role in the administration of FDR, particularly the Maritime Commission, which, you know, is drug related and the moving of goods around. And also he goes on to be the SEC…
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Well, I think he did that first, if I'm not mistaken. So he's in the security exchange, which we know there's a lot of shenanigan in the banking world that goes on there. So Joe Kennedy knew his way around Washington, D.C. He knew who all o…
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biography by Nassau. I put it in the bubble. It's a fairly recent one. And he kind of looks into some of the allegations about Joe Kennedy. He says, he investigates, was Joe Kennedy, as some said, really pro-Hitler? Or on the other hand, wa…
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Nassau seems to think that the argument that he was pro-Hitler or pro-fascist is vastly overstated by propagandists of the likes who were on the so-called left New Deal, but later moved into the MICC during the Cold War. Because he says, lo…
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Joe Kennedy was just as anti-interventionist as that in that as during World War II. And also he makes a pretty good argument, in my opinion, of rebutting claims that most of Joe Kennedy's fortune came from bootlegging. Now, look, I'm not d…
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financing RKO Studios when they were making the transition to sound movies. And that was a massive investment. And that was arranged through by Joe Kennedy. So I strongly recommend this book. I'm not saying that Joe Kennedy was a saint or f…
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Working for and what is their real motive? So I think there's a combination. I think both things can be true. I think things are overstated in many areas. But here's here's one of the particular things about him that I found very interestin…
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in a well-known relationship financially with FDR when FDR becomes the Assistant Secretary of the Navy because Joe Kennedy is in the steel industry. And that's where, as far as I know, their original financial dealings began to overlap with…
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came from Hollywood and the business that he did in Hollywood, which, hello, that's mafia. And so I think there's a lot of conversation about the bootlegging, you know, and the liquor part of it when there's actually a much bigger case to b…
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At least and every businessman did if you were in these businesses. So don't get me wrong. I'm not like trying to say he is mafia. I'm not. But if you're going, it's just like people trying to paint Donald Trump as being a bad guy because h…
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And a lot of those on a covert black market went to the Chicago one. So there's a lot there. And again, I do agree with you all along. Go read that book. You guys form your own opinions. We're here discussing things that we know about these…
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Big deal. No one gets to be the ambassador to UK from the US unless you are a very well-connected guy. And that leverage, whatever the leverage was, that leverage was used to get his son into the presidency. And his son decided to clean up …
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He saw it in L.A. And that's that's kind of the case we make for Trump right now. Right. He helped the FBI clean up the casino thing in New Jersey. He was embroiled in real estate in New York. So we had to have seen all of that corruption. …
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Just as exactly what we're seeing play out in real time today. And maybe that's what happened with Joe. Maybe Joe was in all of those places and he had a powwow with his son and said, hey, we're going to get you into the presidency and we'r…
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Kennedy was in many ways a strange liberal icon because he grew up idolizing Herbert Hoover, was closest in his family to his father Joseph, the millionaire business tycoon, began his career supporting Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch…
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mastery of the craft of intelligence, but he was an enthusiastic supporter of the entire thing. Kennedy remained an unknown quantity. Dulles did know the new president. He had met JFK in April of 55 in Palm Beach. And that's because, rememb…
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And that's where they met. He was good friends with Kennedy's father, Joe. Dulles' biographer, Peter Gross, maintains that Allen knew Joe Kennedy mainly by reputation, but Dulles himself insisted in a 1964 oral history with Tom Braden that …
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Dulles befriended Palm Beach neighbors of Jack's father. The neighbor's home on North Ocean Boulevard lay next to the Kennedy compound, so Dulles could hardly miss the Kennedys on his visit. Dulles met JFK as the Massachusetts politician wa…
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This is all about stealing our wealth and stealing our resources. And they will use whatever mechanism they can in order to do that. Colonel, don't forget Joe Kennedy. And, you know, obviously he was a bootlegger with, you know, connections…
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including Vice President Nixon, CIA Director Alan Dulles, and young Senator JFK, whose father was a strong McCarthy supporter, crowded in the cathedral. Afterwards, McCarthy and his new wife were whisked away in a limousine to a celebrity s…
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In contrast to his grandfather, who wanted to talk to everybody, Kennedy said he'd rather read a book. When he made his political debut in 1946 running for Congress from the Boston-Cambridge 11th District, the 28-year-old Kennedy was far fr…
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Kennedy, whose own family had lost their firstborn son, Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., in the final days of the war found his voice. I was getting kind of nervous, Powers would say years later. And then Jack looked out at all of those women. I…
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couldn't all war is stupid kennedy had written home as a navy lieutenant where he had nearly lost his own life when his pt boat was carved in half by a japanese destroyer the death death of his older brother only confirmed his deep disgust …
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Clover is Allen Dulles' wife, for bringing out her husband's reprehensible characteristics. You know, like for all of the ritzy stuff. It was Reitzman who introduced the Dulleses to young JFK. Charlie Reitzman was no fan of the new dealer J…
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The president made no secret of his plan to shake up the CIA and to replace Dulles with his number two man. Kennedy's father had served on the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board that had urged Eisenhower to overhaul the management of the s…
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It's another great story, another great story about Kennedy. And, you know, Joseph Kennedy did take the money from the unions. And I think that the steel company was just another example of another reason why they didn't want the Kennedys a…
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taking over as chairman of the SEC from Joseph Kennedy in 1937 and becoming a fixture in the president's inner circle, frequently a guest at Camp David. While serving at the SEC, Douglas had become a pariah of the financial industry. Banker…
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Joe Kennedy had courted Henry Luce's support for his son during the 1960 presidential race. Dropping by the magazine mogul's Fifth Avenue apartment for lobster dinner on the final night of the Democrat convention. And afterwards watching TV…
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He did question whether he was aggressive enough on communism. After finishing their lobster dinner, in fact, Luce had warned Joe Kennedy that he would not stand it if JFK proved too much of a compromiser in the White House. If he showed an…
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We'll take care of it. At the time, Scott assumed the priest was referring to Joe Kennedy, who presumably could be counted on to set his son straight. But by 1963, the Kennedy patriarch was confined to a wheelchair after suffering a massive…
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within the inner sanctum of power. Members of the American elite were uneasy that JFK's presidential bid from the beginning. Their skepticism started with Joe Kennedy, the candidate's father, who was remembered as an ardent New Dealer. Desp…
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Yeah. I mean, growing up, wasn't he kind of privy to the shenanigans and the shady stuff going on? What do you think? So that's hard to say. There are instances, especially when you're very young. And Joe Kennedy, while he was involved in t…
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Franklin was a career diplomat who had served under Ambassador Joseph Kennedy in London and was currently the assistant to Myron Taylor, the former U.S. Steel Chairman, whom FDR had appointed to be a special representative at the Vatican du…
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Wasn't the first SEC chair Joe Kennedy? Or wasn't the first SEC head Joe Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy, JFK's dad? I think that's the case, but whatever. I mean, this has been going on with AI.…
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racial, like how the races are divided. And was that something to do with the book, or did I just catch you on a conversation of something else? No, it had nothing to do with the book. And yes, Joseph Kennedy was the first SEC chair. So wha…
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Regarding that timeline with FDR and Stone and Hopkins and Wild Bill Donovan, interestingly enough, that is when Joseph Kennedy was ambassador to the UK. And they were, the whole lot of them were squeezing him out. And apparently JFK.…
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went over there a few times or more than a few. And he actually wrote his university thesis on that experience and his own opinion of why he, I think it was called something like why England slept or why London slept, something like that. B…
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Joseph and his stance on not meddling in international problems and war and how it kind of shaped a different direction for JFK. But I think it's a significant beginning or a little story that we don't really hear much about. So that's all.…
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who had backed Ed Baker, the con man, allegedly burned to death in his Jaguar, had done business with Howard Pulver, headed the company that owned the ranch. So they're all connected to the mafia. Modestic, who is noted for teaching a popul…
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People said, you know, there was a lot of people that have wondered why, since it was the mafia and the deal with Joe Kennedy to get JFK elected, why Bobby would go after the thing that got them there. And I think they had tried to begin ma…
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Some accounts of that story, it was JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, who approached Giacomo to help with the 1960 election. And JFK and Bobby were appalled when they found out about it, banishing their father from the White House. And here's a…
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connection there because there's like four or five other known actors or actresses that came from this one high school. That's a lot. And she, since Ghost is not here, I'm going to act on his behalf. Her family originated from what was the …