End the Camelot myth

The Chicago Tribune's John Kass calls for closing the DVD case on the Camelot myth of the Kennedys.

A lot of people, particularly Irish Catholics (I'm one) fell for it. But I was too young to rememeber JFK.

But remember, John F. Kennedy had the luck of having talented writers at his side, including the myth's midwife, Theodore H. White, as well as Ted Sorensen, the author of the president's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Profiles in Courage.

Camelot was a media created phenonenon.

End it.

But keep the Camelot of Monty Python and the Holy Grail alive.

Coconuts, anyone?

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