Study Marry Kill

Study Marry Kill

Share this post

Study Marry Kill
Study Marry Kill
"A Fine Broth of a Lad, Pelvis and All"

"A Fine Broth of a Lad, Pelvis and All"

Alexis Coe's avatar
Alexis Coe
Apr 02, 2024
∙ Paid
4

Share this post

Study Marry Kill
Study Marry Kill
"A Fine Broth of a Lad, Pelvis and All"
1
Share

If you’re in Ohio, join me for a talk on the presidency and National Security tomorrow—free thanks to the OSU History Department and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies.

ON AN UNHINGED NOTE

Jack and Joe Jr. Kennedy (on the right) and a friend. Brookline, MA, around 1921-22. Photographer unknown. Kennedy Family Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

Eighty-nine years after Choate, a private boarding school in Connecticut, claimed “a man” working alone “couldn’t locate [JFK’s] sled,” there are still unanswered questions.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

The definitive account of what happened to the sled is in no report produced by any commission, so here are my unsubstantiated, Oliver Stone-worthy theories:1

  1. Anti-Catholic bias.

    It’s been in the Protestant school’s storage room for 89 years.

  2. Ted Cruz’s father stole the sled.

    "Ted Cruz’s father was with ‘a man’ prior to the sled going, you know, missing," disgraced former President Donald Trump told Fox News. “And nobody even brings it up. Nobody talks about it."

  3. It was an inside job.

    The secretary felt bad about rejecting the man, so she told him to keep the sled. He died under mysterious circumstances days later, but she lived a long life with the same roommate; they’re buried in a cemetery near campus with a headstone that reads “The Best of Friends.”

    SMK is mostly free, but life isn’t! If you like the newsletter, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.


THE ANNALS OF RESEARCH

What a sunny way to describe a conflict of interest!


"A Fine Broth of a Man, Pelvis and All"

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Study Marry Kill to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Alexis Coe
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture

Share