Slatzer's and Thomas Reeves'. Even the touch about the
Carlyle Hotel-Kennedy's New York apartment-is in the Reeves book.
In other words, it is all too stale and pat, with none of the
twists or turns that happen in real life. Secondly, are we to
truly believe that the Kennedys would put their name to a
document so that a woman blackmailing them would have even more
power to blackmail them in the future? Or was that to lead into
why the Kennedys had her killed?
Hersh has leapt so enthusiastically into the "trash Kennedy"
abyss that these questions never seem to have bothered him. Anson
depicts him as waving the documents over his head at a restaurant
and shouting, "The Kennedys were...the worst people!" Lex Cusack
showed them to Hersh a few at a time, wetting his appetite for
more at each instance. Hersh then used the documents to get
Little, Brown to give him $250,000 more and to sell ABC on a
documentary.
Jennings said on the 20/20 segment that the flaw in the documents
was in the typing part of them and not the actually penmanship.
As subsequent facts have shown, this is not actually true. Linda
Hart, o
