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Hersh opens the book with a description of Robert Kennedy, his brother's keeper, in the first hours after the President's assassination, ordering someone to scour the White House for incriminating files and secret tape recordings before they fall into the hands of Lyndon Johnson. What does he want to keep secret? In Hersh's book, it's Jack's long-rumored first marriage, the Mob contacts that helped him steal the 1960 election, and his history of health problems, including years of venereal disease. Then there was his real role in the murder of South Vietnamese leader...
...cases, credible sources for his book who were contacted by TIME say Hersh's account of their stories differs from what they recall telling him. Hersh writes that during Kennedy's presidency, a Secret Service agent brought "sexually explicit photographs of a naked President with various paramours" to be framed at the Washington art gallery of Sidney Mickelson. In some pictures, Hersh says, J.F.K. appears among a group of people wearing masks. But Mickelson now insists that what he described to Hersh was just two pictures of three masked figures in a bed with the covers pulled up to their...
Hersh suggests that Kennedy deserves some of the blame for triggering the Cuban missile crisis because of his secret plotting against Castro, which the Cuban leader knew about, even if most Americans did not. "The overriding deceit--one that still distorts the history of those 13 days--was the absolute determination of Jack and Bobby Kennedy to conceal their campaign to assassinate Castro and destroy his regime," Hersh writes. "Kennedy did not dare tell the full story of the Soviet missiles in Cuba, because it was his policies that brought the weapons there." This is an interesting theory...
...Kennedy not only approved the coup but also knew about and at least acquiesced in plans to murder Diem and his brother. His evidence for this is almost nonexistent: a cryptic, secondhand account of a conversation between Kennedy and CIA agent Edward Lansdale, a vague thirdhand account of a secret visit to Diem in 1963 by the President's friend Torbert Macdonald, the unsupported speculation of officials on the edges of events at the time. He argues that the Kennedy Administration supported the coup because it had received reports that Diem was negotiating a settlement with North Vietnam, which...
...officials have lied, threatened and concealed everything they could to keep the U.N. Special Commission from finding and destroying Iraq's weapons of mass destruction--nuclear, chemical and biological. He still has some of them stashed away, but the inspectors were burrowing ever closer to the last, most secret hiding places, and it looked as if they would never give up. Hence Saddam's decision to risk bombs to put the inspectors out of business...