Anyone who thinks anti-semitism wasn't a factor in Gore-Lieberman should read this ominous letter in a rural, conservative PA newspaper.
No responsible newspaper or editor would publish this:
http://www.sungazette.com/letters/letter_details.asp?letterID=2716&postdate=9/18/2004
Editor, Sun-Gazette:
It is surprising that while no man, woman or child in the country has withheld an opinion on the swift boat experiences of various Vietnam vets. Not one journalist has made the slightest effort to access John Kerry's unreleased files and records. Much can be deduced from his family history, and much lurks there unexplored. Much about his personality, character and proclivities can been read in his family history:
John Kerry's grandfather, Fritz Kohn, was born to an old Jewish family in what is now the Czech Republic, grew up in a small town near Vienna, Austria, married John's grandmother Ida Loewe, from a renowned family of Hungarian Jewish Kabbalists, and they, with their eldest son, Erich, immigrated to the U.S. in 1905.
They concealed their Jewish origins, lost their name, Kohn, and took the name Kerry, and had their children baptized in the Roman Catholic church. Fritz, a shoe salesman, committed suicide in 1921 in Boston. His wife Ida died in 1960 and was buried with her husband in Brookline, Mass. John Kerry was not born at the time of his grandfather Fritz Kohn's demise in 1921, but was 16 when his grandmother Ida died.
Kerry's father, Richard, was born Brookline, Mass. in 1915 and died in Boston in 2000. According to one source he volunteered for the Air Corps in World War II, served a stretch in Alabama, but was early out because of "a bout with tuberculosis."
He then attended Phillips Academy, graduated from Yale and Harvard Law. He certainly was talented to have achieved these academic objectives given his father's sad financial plight at death. In 1951, Richard entered the State Department, served in various legal capacities, then in the Foreign Service, serving in Paris, Berlin and Oslo. Along the way he married reputed heiress Rosemary Forbes, from a mainly France-rooted Scottish Presbyterian family.
John Kerry followed his father's route in receiving a European primary education, a New England prep school secondary education, and then Yale and Harvard. He also served a stretch in the Reserve, was early out of Vietnam, but unlike Richard, took up U.S. military bashing upon his return.
Initially, he passed himself off as an Irish Catholic in Massachusetts. By the records of one of the country's best genealogists, he has not one drop of that blood.
Miriam Cady
Wellsboro
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