Whoa! Who knew the Kennedy Family had a "darker side"?
Reading between the lines of
this review, of Christopher Lawford's new memoir it seems pretty clear that Salon.com founder David Talbot is a Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorist. Interesting. (I am a "plenty of demented individuals and guns" theorist myself—a more grand unified theory than ever sprang from the grassy knoll.) He also seems charmingly unaffected by the overall impression of the Kennedy family that most educated people I know seem to have arrived at over the years. Commenting on the portrait that emerges from a book Lawford says the family opposed, Talbot begins: "They might not come across as the strong-jawed statuettes dedicated to public service and public mourning that we have seen on TV for the past four decades, but . . . ." Um, I'll say. Perhaps some of these would jog the memory: Joseph Sr., Chappaquiddick, Judith Exner, Marilyn Monroe, William Kennedy Smith, Au Bar. Then there's the
charming NC-17 tidbit that Gore Vidal and Seymour Hersh seem to have sourced independently of one another.
Are there still a lot of people out there who lionize the Kennedys? Have I just been living in my little cynical bubble for too long. Speaking of which, I'm promising that my next post will be delightfully non-negative. It might have to be my tapenade recipe, but I'll try to avoid that.
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