"I reckon the best reason is because at the bottom line they wanted a minority to ridicule"

Hope you're not serious.

On the off chance you are, I 'd guess a more likely explanation is that Kennedy--after all, we're only talking about one man--had made his name in finances and in Hollywood--both areas where he would have encountered Jewish competitors. Maybe he resented the competition.

But Kennedy was a classic worm--even in the correspondence collection put out by one of his granddaughters, that comes out--aggressive, unscrupulous, defeatist, womanizing, anti-Semitic. A real joy.