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Truth was written by Charles Roberts, an able newsman who has been Newsweek's White House correspondent since 1954. Roberts was in Dallas the day of the murder and became one of the two newsmen (the other: U.P.I.'s Merriman Smith) to fly back to Washington on the...
"Correct, Compassionate." Roberts and Manchester chiefly differ in describing the interplay between Lyndon Johnson and Kennedy's bereaved intimates during the hours immediately after the murder. The overwhelming impression created by Death's prepublication publicity is that Manchester condemns Johnson for needless cruelty. In the Look serialization, Manchester...
A major point of friction was the logistical and procedural snarl of returning to Washington. Manchester implies that it would have been much easier on Mrs. Kennedy if Johnson had left the presidential plane to her and the coffin and used the similar vice-presidential jet himself. Says Manchester of...
"Inevitable Delay." Then there was the question of when to depart. Johnson wanted to be sworn in officially before takeoff. Kennedy aides wanted to leave Love Field as soon as the coffin and Mrs. Kennedy arrived. Manchester, relying on interviews conducted later, reports a tense scene between Johnson and Kenneth...
Roberts also discusses the already-exposed Manchester error concerning the attendance of Kennedy aides at the swearing-in. In the Look serialization of his book, Manchester said no "male Kennedy aide" attended. Published pictures disproved this (TIME, Feb. 24), and in the hard-cover version to be published officially next...