Reply #27: I've heard that too, and its come on once before on DU.

[Puregonzo1188]

I believe though, from what I read the last time, that he was just a supporter of apeasement.

Although, the section in wikipedia.org on Joe Kennedy's anti-semitism says otherwise.

"As fiercely anti-Communist as they were anti-Semitic, Kennedy and Astor looked upon Adolf Hitler as a welcome solution to both of these "world problems" (Nancy's phrase). No member of the so-called "Cliveden Set" (the informal cabal of appeasers who met frequently at Nancy Astor's palatial home) seemed much concerned with the dilemma faced by Jews under the Reich. Astor wrote Kennedy that Hitler would have to do more than just "give a rough time" to "the killers of Christ" before she'd be in favor of launching "Armageddon to save them. The wheel of history swings round as the Lord would have it. Who are we to stand in the way of the future?" Kennedy replied that he expected the "Jew media" in the United States to become a problem, that "Jewish pundits in New York and Los Angeles" were already making noises contrived to "set a match to the fuse of the world."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy%2C_Sr.#Anti-Semitism