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Defend America on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:12:11 PM
Kennedy Miniseries Stirs Controversy
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Published: February 16, 2010
A new mini-series about
John F. Kennedy’s
presidency that is being prepared by the History channel does not yet
have a cast or a premiere date. Not a frame of footage has been shot.
It does, however, have prominent critics who want it brought to a halt.
The critics, including Theodore C. Sorensen,
a former Kennedy adviser, say they have read the scripts for the
project and that those contain errors of fact and emphasis. But like a
similar controversy over a 2003 television film about Ronald Reagan,
the dispute over the embryonic Kennedy series seems to say as much
about the enduring place of the Kennedys as a battleground in the
culture wars as it does about history itself.
The mini-series,
called “The Kennedys,” is the brainchild of Joel Surnow, a creator of
the Fox action show “24” and an outspoken political conservative. That
raised alarms among Kennedy partisans when the History channel said in
December that it would pick up the project.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/arts/television/17kennedy.html