Was Joseph Kennedy still a racist hater of Jews in 1954?

Question

He certainly had been in 1938, when he considered them "Christ-killers" who were in control of FDR and the entire Democratic Party.

But by 1954, he had seen his beloved Nazi regime crushed. He was strongly committed to the Roman Catholic Church, and joined with his friend Cardinal Francis Spellman to propel the US toward war against Vietnam using the voice in the Senate of his son JFK.

Was Joseph Kennedy's earlier hatred of Jews still influencing him in 1954? Did this racist phobia affect his activity in promoting the US aid to the French which developed into the Vietnam War?

The story of Cardinal Spellman's successful appeal to Joseph Kennedy was first published in RAMPARTS, a liberal Catholic layman's magazine. Both men agreed that Catholic interests in Vietnam must be sheltered from the growing influence of Ho Chi Minh whose likely victory, they feared, would lead to an imposition of Buddhist rule. So at Spellman's request, Joseph Kennedy got his son Jack in the Senate to introduce a resolution bringing American support to the losing French, and so America was now in the game taking sides.

Answer 1

Can you provide sources?

"President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100474,00.html

"In October of 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy Act, the U.S. government halted operations at New York's Union Banking Corporation. A bank official was charged with "Running Nazi front groups in the United States."

His name: Prescott Bush."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/012303A.ma.dead.htm

"George W. Bush's grandfather helped finance the Nazi Party. Karl Rove's grandfather allegedly helped run the Nazi Party, and helped build the Birkenau Death Camp."
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1006-08.htm

Answer 2

Joe Kennedy was a bit anti-Semitic (as most Americans were in the 1920s and 30s), but I think you have somewhat exagerated his beliefs and his importance.