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...with many J.F.K. documentaries is that the biography overwhelms the history, but Revealed does a good job of connecting the two. J.F.K. reappointed J. Edgar Hoover, for instance, because the FBI director kept an all-the-President's-women file, and his illnesses--colitis, prostatitis, Addison's disease, back pain, a cholesterol level of more than 400--taxed him heavily during national crises. This is familiar ground, but Revealed also makes good use of recently declassified tapes--J.F.K. talking with advisers during the Cuban missile crisis, with the Governor of Mississippi during the James Meredith uproar--to show a President...
...like Cronkite (and they are all men here) is a rebuke to today's 24-hour news culture. Announcing J.F.K.'s death, Cronkite chokes back tears, but he does not--as many anchors did on 9/11 and less momentous occasions--ostentatiously remind his viewers that he shares their pain. Yet when you watch Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald live on the air, leaving reporters spinning to fill time with little information, you see why this is such a special anniversary for TV. It was a week when a President died--and the logorrheic age of instant news began...
...down. Eventually he travels to Bogota to pursue studies in law. But it's too late. His passion for words overtakes him. So does the bloody history of his country. By the book's end, he is becoming the man whose gifts will subdue that history and turn its pain into even further magic...
...helped him. I eased his pain, physical and emotional
...next day. Humbert gasped, as sometimes happens when respirators are removed, Chaussoy says. So the doctor injected him - first with a barbiturate and then with potassium chloride, which stops the heart and is used in lethal-injection executions. "I helped him," Chaussoy told Time last week. "I eased his pain, physical and emotional." The local prosecutor says these injections killed Vincent, and doctors are forbidden from deliberately provoking death under the French code of medical ethics. But the code also requires doctors to ease patients' suffering and avoid "foolish obstinacy" in treatment. Chaussoy's supporters say the shots...