If the people who count the votes in Michigan and Wisconsin magically find enough for Joe Biden to put him over the top and win the White House, it won’t just delegitimize his victory and lend credence to charges that the fix was in with mail-in ballots and nationwide Chinese Virus shutdown.
It will remind us that more things change, the more they stay the same.
John F. Kennedy manufactured votes in Cook County, Illinois, and Texas during the 1960 election. The fraud wasn’t likely enough to have altered the results. Kennedy would have won the states and their 51 electoral votes anyway.
But he cheated Richard Nixon, and even robbed Hubert Humphrey, some say, of the 1960 primary in West Virginia.
Democrats are the masters at rigging elections, which explains why mail-in balloting was so important to the Biden Machine.
“It Was Stolen Like Mad”
The 1960 presidential elections in Texas and Illinois were vote-fraud classics, as was the Kennedy effort to beat primary opponent Humphrey.
Kennedy needed to win the Mountain State badly, and so Old Joe Kennedy went to the bank.
“Appalachian Boss” Raymond Chafin, as a review of his autobiography in Washington Monthly retold the story, “received $35,000 cash in two briefcases at the Logan County airport from Kennedy operatives the week before the primary.”
Chafin claimed he asked the Kennedy Mafia for “35,” meaning $3,500, but they delivered 10 times the amount inadvertently, all of which he spent to buy votes for the Catholic underdog.
Others claim that story is apocryphal, but even Kennedy joked about it. “I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy,” he quipped. “Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.”
But the fraud in West Virginia also involved Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana. The Kennedys couldn’t approach Giancana directly, of course, so they called on Kennedy worshiper Frank Sinatra, daughter Tina told 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft.
“It’s a couple of phone calls,” the Windy City Mafia chief told Sinatra.
Kennedy double-crossed Giancana when his brother, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, declared war on the mob, which infuriated Giancana and his Cosa Nostra brethren. Some think the help electing JFK, and RFK’s subsequent crusade, explains November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was no lone gunman. He was part of a hit arranged by New Orleans crime boss Carlos Marcello.
As for Cook County, reporters in Chicago tipped off Earl Mazo, a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune who later became Nixon’s biographer, his obituary in the Washington Post recalled.
Mazo “obtained lists of voters in precincts that seemed suspicious and started checking their addresses” the Post reported.
“There was a cemetery where the names on the tombstones were registered and voted,” he recalled. “I remember a house. It was completely gutted. There was nobody there. But there were 56 votes for Kennedy in that house.”
At the urging of Chicago Democrats, Mr. Mazo went to Republican areas downstate and looked for fraud there. He found it but on a smaller scale than in Chicago. He then headed to Texas, where he documented similar Democratic electoral shenanigans. Mr. Mazo began writing what he and his editors envisioned as a 12-part series on election fraud. By mid-December 1960, he had published four of the parts, which were reprinted in papers across the country, including the Post.
But Nixon himself stopped Mazo’s probe. He called Mazo and said “the country couldn’t afford a constitutional crisis at the height of the Cold War.”
Mazo refused, and so Nixon called his superiors at the newspaper, who ended Mazo’s reporting.
“There’s no question in my mind that it was stolen. It was stolen like mad. It was stolen in Chicago and in Texas,” Mazo told the Post.
And as Slate reported in 2000, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who documented Clan Kennedy’s corruption in The Dark Side of Camelot, the FBI had evidence of the Chicago vote fraud on tape.
“A former Justice Department prosecutor who heard tapes of FBI wiretaps from the period believed that Illinois was rightfully Nixon’s,” Slate reported. “Hersh also has written that J. Edgar Hoover believed Nixon actually won the presidency but in deciding to follow normal procedures and refer the FBI’s findings to the attorney general — as of Jan. 20, 1961, Robert F. Kennedy — he effectively buried the case.”
The Fraud Didn’t Defeat Nixon, But Fraud Is Fraud
If true, however, winning Illinois, a public policy professor explained in the Post, would not have put Nixon in the White House.
He would have won “if he had flipped both Illinois and Texas,” Paul Von Hippel wrote in 2017. Problem was, “Texas wasn’t nearly as close as Illinois.”
Wrote Von Hippel:
While Kennedy won Illinois by just 8,858 votes (0.2 percent), he won Texas, the home state of his running mate Lyndon Johnson, by 46,627 votes (2 percent). Out of the 22 states that Kennedy won, there were seven that he won more narrowly than Texas.
True perhaps, but whether Kennedy won because of the fraud is irrelevant. Fact is, the Kennedy Machine rigged at least two elections.
Kennedy’s running mate, Lyndon Johnson, was also an election thief. In the second of his four-volume series on the 36th president, Means of Ascent, Robert Caro recounted Johnson’s cheating Coke Stevenson in their 1948 U.S. Senate primary.
