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...theft of $300 million in artwork--including three Rembrandts, five Degas and a Vermeer--from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. On Friday the Boston Herald published several black-and-white photographs that purported to show some of the stolen paintings. And the Herald said that in collaboration with ABC News, it had near certain proof that the Rembrandts in the photos were authentic. The paper pointed to some minute but telltale signs--a stretcher mark here, a frayed edge there--that bolstered its stunning claim...
That startling revelation was on track to make headlines--MARILYN BLACKMAILED J.F.K.!--for the book that Hersh had spent more than four years working on, The Dark Side of Camelot (due in November from Little, Brown), as well as for a two-hour ABC documentary timed to coincide with publication. But last week Hersh and the network made an extraordinary pre-emptive strike--against themselves. In a segment of the magazine show 20/20, the network asserted that the documents are, almost certainly, fake...
...code--before ZIP codes had been introduced. Experts subsequently brought in to examine the typewritten documents, moreover, concluded that they could not have been written during the period claimed. (The typewriters had self-correcting tape, for example, which wasn't available until the 1970s.) Confronted on camera by ABC anchor Peter Jennings with evidence of the fraud, Cusack stammered that the papers might have been later copies of originals, while denying that he forged them. Reached by TIME later, Cusack, a paid consultant on the documentary, said he was "surprised and disappointed" at being sandbagged...
Hersh has removed the chapter in his book that was based on Cusack's documents and rewritten portions of the rest to reflect that omission, and the book is still scheduled to come out in November. ABC News president David Westin says he still "hopes and expects" to air the documentary later this year but won't make a final decision until it is completed. Hersh says he considers the excision only a minor blow to his wide-ranging examination of Kennedy's public and private life, and claims he felt "tremendous relief" at no longer having to deal with...
...still on top of the ratings game, according to People Daily. Helped by 61 million viewers for the much-touted live episode of ER as well as a record-setting Seinfeld, the network managed to trounce ABC and CBS in Round 1 of the fall ratings war ? the first-week Nielsen ratings. ABC didn't do too badly; their infamous "TV is Good" campaign appears to be breaking some ground as the sitcom Dharma & Greg joined Home Improvement and Football among their top-rated shows...