Mail on Sunday: Reports that the History Channel will not show its Drama on the Kennedy’s due to the fact that its not totally historical accurate. Lets be clear folks, there is the JFK of history and the JFK of common memory. A recent poll of Presidents has JFK in the top slot, followed by Ronald Reagan, one can ask how many of those asked voted for the common memory over the facts, to be kind to JFK, the real JFK, he stood up to the USSR over Cuba, came very late to civil rights, and start the ball rolling for the Vietnam War, on the other hand the common memory would be his legion of affairs with Hollywood female starts, his iffy drug taking for his bad back, his Addison’s disease that lead to his sexual problems, his secret deal with USSR to sell out Turkey, his Administration falling apart, the words of JFK when it approved the overthrow of Diem in Vietnam. As they said in the old West, when the legend becomes the reality, print the legend.
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