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...Marx Brothers festival during a showing of "Go West." These people are from the self-professed "Andy's Gang" (a group that would later splinter from X in a dispute over structure). They pass out balloons that read "Andy died for your sins," "Good Soup and Andy's Gang," "JFK died for Andy's sins," and "John Lennon uses Andy...
...Jagan's anger was presumably aroused by Schlesinger's policy advice to JFK: "An independent British Guiana under Burnham (if Burnham will commit himself to a multiracial policy) would cause us many fewer problems than an independent British Guiana under Jagan...
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...