Why did The Sopranos reference JFK so much?

Why did The Sopranos reference JFK so much?

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Junior was obsessed.

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because his family were criminals too yet are seen as american royalty

That episode was so disgusting.

JFK has some huge level of importance for boomers. He was their Demi-God. Right after he died the US started going to shit for them (the first time) and they always associated his martyrdom with the quasi-collapse of the US in the late 60s/70s.

The innocence of post-war america died with JFK. A comparable event would be 9/11 for millennials representing the death of the 90s.

The Jersey mafia specifically were very close to Frank Sinatra, who used his ties to commit election fraud in Chicago, which likely won JFK the 1960 election against Nixon. JFK and his Attorney General brother then flipped on the mob, prosecuting them. The later implications is the Mafia had JFK killed for this betrayal. The show made occasional hints that Junior and his crew were connected to the assassination (and a more lucid Junior might have been holding onto this as his "ace in the hole" against Federal prosecution.

JFK represents the America of Boomers. The sexy swagger, cool class, stern but moral leadership, overseeing an era of progress and supremacy.

>JFK has some huge level of importance for boomers. He was their Demi-God. Right after he died the US started going to shit for them (the first time) and they always associated his martyrdom with the quasi-collapse of the US in the late 60s/70s.
No to mention that JFK achieved near sainthood to Catholics in America. Even non-Irish Catholics like the Italians venerated him.

the integration of Catholics in the United States (which includes the Mafia) was one of the great unreported stories of the 20th century
postwar Catholics were on the rise. Just as blacks dominate american cities now, they dominated cities then. and just as blacks have disproportionate political power now, catholics had it then.
the key to gaming democracy is controlling densely packed urban areas with tightly knit ethnic communities. this is the reason why one small group of somalis in Minnesota (which did not exist 40 years ago) appoint their own senator.
so Kennedy represented the peak of Catholic power in the US. He was plainly connected to ethnic organized crime, and his assassination would preface an annihilation of Catholic power in the US.
so when Tony Soprano remembers the "good old days" it's basically pre-Kennedy America.
The movie continues this story very well by showing how blacks were forced into (formerly) Catholic neighborhoods by the army in the 60s. Catholics (now "whites") were relegated to suburbs where amassing political power is more difficult if not impossible: that's what they were designed for. to isolate people and prevent political cohesion.
i don't care about kennedy assassination theories, because ultimately it doesn't matter. it still represents a massive turning point in the history of the US. without doubt a turn for the worse

Congresswoman, not senator.