Word: jfk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lasky lashed the Kennedys in a 1963 newsbook called JFK: The Man and the Myth. Published shortly before the assassination, it exhibited the same unblinking reliance on unfriendly quotes as RFK. The question arises: Who is Lasky, and why does he seem to spend his life attacking Kennedys in print...
There is money to be made attacking Kennedys, and Lasky knows it. "Go ahead. Get me," he recently goaded a reporter. "Hostile reviews sell books." Although JFK got mostly bad reviews in 1963, it sold, says Lasky, "about a quarter of a million hardbound copies. At $1.20 a copy, you figure...
...More. The inspiration to write that first book, he says, came while he was doing research for a review he was assigned on a 1960 campaign book comparing Kennedy and Nixon. "I was interested in JFK's change from a fairly interesting, noncommitted guy into some great liberal." After JFK was published, friends told Lasky that he was being investigated by a Department of Justice official, an act he blames on Robert Kennedy-and an act that may have been the genesis of RFK. "I can't prove he was personally involved," Lasky admits. "But maybe...
...author introduces Joe Catale, a narcotics agent working out of suite E-311 in the JFK Building in Boston: "Catale is in a pleasant mood because of the numerous convictions that have just resulted from his investigations...
...JFK AND LBJ: THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY UPON POLITICS by Tom Wicker. 297 pages. Morrow...