"Ask not what your cult can do for you, ask what you can do for your cult!"
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American cult leader, political activist, preacher and faith healer who lead the religious institution known as the "One True Kingdom of God" (later renamed to the Kingdom of Heaven in 1963). He was well regarded for his vehement
Isolationism prior to the
Attack on Perry's Squadron in 1940, which culminated in the
"Bayonets or Bread" speech to the American Constituent Assembly. He was also controversially known for his staunch
pro-british sentiments, in opposition to the policies of American Chancellor
Ernest King, a known Anglophobe. His political relationships with the Dixiecrats did lead to South Carolina Senator Ellison Smith eventually recommending him for a naval posting at the American Caroline Islands. During World War II
(also known by the Anglophobic "War of British Oppression" by members of the north, who were embittered following the
Treaty of Vichy which granted the Confederacy it's independence from the United States.
In 1950, he would find the "Kingdom" in Charleston, South Carolina. While he would not join the Klan for fear of political backlash, he would run for local office multiple times, without much success. He did, however, start to garner more and more of a following for the Kingdom, officially hiring his wife,
Marylin Monroe as a second in command. The teachings of the Kingdom were, in Kennedy's words, :
"A simple guide to living the best life that god has granted us mortal beings". However, there were multiple allegations of abuse by the higher ups and
rumors of numerous affairs, including a vow for "celibacy for all except the 'enlightened one'". Members were expected to not marry and never interact with the opposite sex, except in the most dire circumstances. In 1955, the Kingdom would report a following of 449 members. Four years later, Kennedy ended up on the Chancellor's radar with his efficiency in managing the Kingdom, with him giving frequent interviews that appeared genuine. He would be Appointed by Chancellor
Adalai Stevenson as the
Governor-General of the Johnstown Colony. For the President, it was simply a political matter of removing vocal
Democratic-Republican critic
Chester Nimitz from his post as revenge.
In 1970, there had been rumors flying out from Johnstown that Kennedy had been
complicit in numerous crimes against humanity, including the prohibition of food and drink for any who needed to be "retaught". Brutal pictures had been smuggled out by dissenters of children being beaten by guards for speaking out against the leadership. Accounts by ex-members told a picture of "five minutes of hate" for those that had "forsaken god and the almighty leader". There had even been issues with the locals on
Johnstown, with members robbing and stealing what they could from the locals in order to bring them back to the community. These allegations reached all the way up to Parliament, with MP
Lawton Chiles (
DIX from
Seminole),
John Ashbrook (
WHG from
Iroquois) and
Ronald Reagan (
FED from
Nuavoo) deciding to investigate the affairs themselves. On November 16, 1970 they arrived in a four seat nuclear powered Zeppelin to investigate. Tensions were generally high, but Kennedy did dispatch a welcoming committee to walk them through the camp, headed by his second in command (and oldest son)
James Monroe Kennedy. The conditions were generally poor, but Kennedy blamed it on not enough supplies being brought forward or on corruption of the local officials. The politicians did have a keen note of whenever a member of the community would be asked a question, Kennedy himself insisted that the member would not speak, arguing there was no need for it. This raised suspicions, and the committee eventually ended up telling Kennedy that they would like to open up criminal charges against the religious leader for "poor...everything".
When the party got back to the airport the next day, a few trucks loaded with men
ambushed them and their flight, killing the pilot and forcing Reagan to take the controls in order to get the Zeppelin away from the camp's dirt air strip. Shortly afterwards, Kennedy would
tape himself going on a rant against the "tyrannical machine that wanted to take all the kids and turn them into communists." He would vow he'd rather kill himself than let the "commies win against this country". He passed on orders for everyone to drink large vats of cyanide laced
Pez-Cola, commonly referred to today as
"Drinking the Pez". In total, 1,089 bodies (213 of them identified as children) ended up being discovered by the Jamestown colonial police during investigations of the crime scene, with the body of Reverend Kennedy found, slumped over a desk with a .38 caliber pistol on it. The
Johnstown incident remains the largest single mass suicide to this day. Controversially, his body was taken to be buried in the South, and is currently located at the
Vicksburg National Cemetery in the
Confederate States of America. The body has been the source of
recent tensions between the United States and the Confederacy, with the CSA refusing to exhume his remains for shipment back up to Boston., in spite of repeated attempts by surviving family members of Kennedy to grant the body a proper burial in Northern soil.