Jay Richard Kennedy

Jay Richard Kennedy (died 1991) was an author, screenwriter, composer, publisher, record executive, and Harry Belafonte's business manager.

In his 60s, he worked for Frank Sinatra. In his 70s, he left entertainment and started a psychotherapy clinic called the Center For Human Problems and was accused of practicing psychotherapy without a license in a cultish environment.

Kennedy was born Samuel Richard Solomonick either July 23, 1904 in Chicago, Illinois, c. 1906 in Russia or in the East Bronx in 1911. Raised in the Bronx, he was the son of Isidor Solomonick (died 1974) and Erna E. Solomonick (died 1967).

Leaving school in the seventh grade, Solomonick claimed he spent his teen years traveling around the country, working at about 28 trades and professions. Solomonick held a wide variety of jobs including running a cinema in the Bronx, working on a farm in Kansas, a bricklayer, longshoreman, wrangler, farmer, bricklayer, painter, printer and even nightclub singer. His job in a print shop lead him to join the trade union and he became an officer of an Industrial Printing Employees Union. An excellent speaker, Solomonick was drawn to left wing causes notably the American League Against War and Fascism later changing its name to the American League for Peace and Democracy and the People's Committee Against William Randolph Hearst. Solomonick then became a circulation manager of The Daily Worker the newspaper published by the Communist Party USA. Solomonick became an anti-communist with the signing of the 1939 Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact. Finding himself unemployed and possibly unemployable due to his anti-communism, Solomonick conferred with his friend Andrew Loewi, whose family owned the Park Management Corporation, and Solomonick decided on changing his name upon seeing a sign reading "Kennedy".

Kennedy went into business partnership in a tool and die firm called the Unique Specialties Corporation followed by a real estate management organisation, Kennedy Management Corporation, that included investments in both the United States and Ecuador. With America's entry into World War II Kennedy wrote a Spanish language radio show called El Mysterioso that was broadcast in Latin America with a pro-American and anti-Fascist focus. From July 10, 1944 to May 20, 1952 the show appeared in an English language American version called The Man Called X starring Herbert Marshall.

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