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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: JFK

JFK stories: 4 news summaries
OPINION

 Media Airbrush 
 Did Kennedy 
 No Favors: 
 Hitchens 

Camelot replay overshadowed real accomplishments, redemption

Aug 31, 09 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Kennedy “legacy” is not pretty, precisely because it requires so much media “airbrushing” to stay intact. “One of the many dreadful aspects,” Christopher Hitchens writes for Slate, “is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and ‘torch passing’ rhetoric in general.... More »

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media • Christopher Hitchens • Ted Kennedy • death • Chappaquiddick • Kennedy family • legacy • senator • US Senate • JFK • Edward Kennedy

 Camelot Slips Away 
 With Kennedy 

No one appears ready to take up the torch

Aug 26, 09 4:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - A fabled political dynasty sputtered with last night's passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy, who left no heir apparent in the powerhouse family. Though several younger generation Kennedys are active in civic life, none packs the punch of the senator or his famous brothers. "There seems to be no one... More »

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Ted Kennedy • Joe Kennedy • Camelot • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • JFK assassination • JFK • Robert Kennedy

OBITUARY

 Ted Kennedy Dead at 77 


Aug 26, 09 1:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Ted Kennedy, patriarch of one of the most powerful political dynasties in American history and long-time liberal lion of the Democratic Party, died late last night at his Massachusetts home in Hyannis Port, reports the New York Times. “We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and... More »

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Ted Kennedy • obituary • Massachusetts • Democratic Party • political dynasty • JFK • women's issues • Kennedy • Hyannis Port

(Newser) - The former lover of John F. Kennedy exposed in 2003 has a deal with Random House to write a memoir, the New York Times reports. Mimi Beardsley worked as a White House intern and had an 18-month affair with the president from 1962 to 1963, starting when she was... More »

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John F. Kennedy • president • memoir • Random House • extramarital affair • JFK • Mimi Beardsley • lover

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