Did the Kennedys have the right to “censor” a historical chronicle which might prove personally embarrassing or which might jeopardize their political aspirations? Could Manchester be legitimately held to a contract which, in effect, allowed the Kennedy family to decide what he might or might not write? Should Jacqueline Kennedy have had the prerogative to delete from the historical record material which she considered in “poor taste”? In short, could the “public’s right to know” be abridged by the people closest to the tragedy of the assassination and most vulnerable to its effects? Throughout the protracted controversy surrounding the publication of William Manchester’s The Death of a President, 1 the press seemed preoccupied with a single issue: the suppression of history.
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