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Toto, I don't think we're in Camelot anymore. Where we are is in The Dark Side of Camelot, a warts-and-more-warts portrait of Kennedy by Pulitzer-prizewinning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. This time Hersh has tackled a Kennedy mystique that for years has been subject to intense demystification. One after another, the books have grown nastier and dug deeper into J.F.K.'s extramarital affairs, his concealed health history, his suspected dealings with mobsters and the ways in which his father's money and connections smoothed his path to the top. All the same, The Dark Side...
...book. Most of the Georgetown dinner scene with her and Kennedy appeared in a 1988 PEOPLE magazine story by Kitty Kelley, a piece acknowledged by Hersh in his frustratingly brief notes on sources at the end of his book. (Kelley's story was even headlined "The Dark Side of Camelot.") But that big bag of money seems like a new touch. Exner told TIME she did not reveal it to Kelley because Kelley became irritated with her during an interview and walked out. Hersh supplies a corroborating witness, Martin E. Underwood, "a political operative for [the late Chicago mayor] Richard...
Journalism is often called the first, rough draft of history. In some ways The Dark Side of Camelot is just that. Hersh has done the spadework that the writing of history requires, but it also requires judgment, prudence and a willingness to be satisfied sometimes with ambiguous conclusions when human nature (and the best-seller list) prefers the comfort of certainties...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour M. Hersh's new book, "The Dark Side of Camelot" ? which hits bookstores Monday, with extracts published in this week's TIME ? levels a whole host of controversial allegations against the late President John F. Kennedy...
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...