‘The History Channel’ Yanks Kennedy Miniseries Produced by Conservative
- Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:27am by
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The History Channel will not air a controversial miniseries it produced about the Kennedy family, saying the multimillion project that had become the network’s most expensive on record did not fit the “History brand.”
The eight-part series had already been completed, and starred Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie. But during its production, critics like former Kennedy administration aide Theodore Sorenson attacked the scripts as inaccurate. The role of producer Joel Surnow, a political conservative, also drew suspicion from fans of the Kennedy family.
“We have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand,” the network said in a statement late Friday.
The decision was first reported Friday by the Hollywood Reporter.
History, in its statement, said the decision was made after viewing the series in its totality.
“We recognize historical fiction is an important medium for storytelling and commend all the hard work and passion that has gone into the making of the series, but ultimately deem this as the right programming decision for our network,” History said in a statement.
Spokesman Michael Feeney said there would be no further comment.
Messages left with Surnow’s agent and lawyer were not immediately returned on Friday.
History is owned by the A&E Television Networks, which itself is owned jointly by NBC Universal, the Walt Disney Co. and the Hearst Corp.
It’s not clear who made the decision to pull the plug on “The Kennedys,” given the joint ownership. A top Disney executive, Disney-ABC Media Networks co-chairwoman Anne Sweeney, is also on the board of directors for the Special Olympics, the organization started by the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver, President Kennedy’s sister.
Liberal filmmaker Robert Greenwald was behind a petition drive to get the movie shelved. A website, stopkennedysmears.com, was set up with a short film that attacked the miniseries.
The decision was reminiscent of CBS’ 2003 decision not to air a miniseries based on the life of President Ronald Reagan, which had also attracted political controversy prior to airing. The series later aired on the Showtime pay cable network.
Greenwald said more than 50,000 people had signed his petition.
“I’ll never understand why the History channel let it get as far as it did — they’re intelligent people over there — but we’re pleased that they came to this decision,” he said.
His YouTube film quoted Sorenson, a former adviser to Kennedy, calling a script he had seen of “The Kennedys” vindictive and malicious. Sorenson said scenes in the script that depicted him meeting with President Kennedy did not occur.
Greenwald said he had been slipped a copy of the script while the film was casting actors. His film included a “dramatization” of some of the scenes, including one where President Kennedy supposedly tells his brother Robert about why he needed to have sex with different women.
It’s not clear whether that scene, or others that he depicted, ever made it into the final film.
Although History is not airing it, “The Kennedys” is expected to be seen elsewhere around the world. History does not control rights to the film outside of the United States and the company that does, Muse Entertainment, has sold rights to various other networks. It is scheduled to air March 6 in Canada, for example.
The film would have aired in this country during the 50th anniversary of the start of the Kennedy presidency.
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Comments (299)
NCO
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:36amWell, probiscuous sex always was a part of being a Kennedy. Just any one of the women, kept and otherwise. (Otherwise=married.)
Gums
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:32amWhy would NBC want to tarnish the God like image of the greatest martyr in the Democratic party’s history? Of COOOUUUUURRRRRSE thet don’t want a conservative to make a movie about their little man-god. His image is supposed to live foreveeeeeer. Inspiring the wittle children. It is funny how petty these weak freaks actually are. They control almost everything 70% of everything people see, read and hear yet one STRAW will break their broken down camel’s back. People WILL find out they have been brainwashing children for the last half decade with the HOAX of man made “global warming”. And the TRUTH will prevail! And it will utterly destroy their credibility along with their ideology, respect, power and presence. And I will sit there and LAUGH.
Report Post »MUAAAAAAAHAHAHA AAAHA HAHAHA AHAHA ah ah ah ah ah…… yes….. YESSS!!! O__O
scout n ambush
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 3:34amWatch ag cuchinelli in VA he filed a foia request on the uva for the global warming documents from the guy who made the famous hockey stick graph they have to turn all documents over next week.this should be the handle on the climate gate. then you can get your laugh on.
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:24amYep, if you discredit witness testimony on one point in a court of law, the whole testimony becomes suspect.
Yep, there‘s plenty or room to question JFK’s history. There are a lot of dots that have never been connected. I really, really hope this is just the beginning of the connection of those dots and not the end. Keep asking, keep questioning, keep demanding to know more about this.
Report Post »PointBreak
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:31amSo let me get this straight – the director of Xanadu got a show made by the creator of ‘24’ taken off the History Channel? What fiscally irresponsible intellectual infant is running that network?
Report Post »NCO
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:30amWhat’s not to like about sex???
Report Post »(With your wife, fool. With your wife!)
Fight for America
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:30amDad was rich and wanted his boys to run the country the way he wanted and to carry on his name. The boys became politicians (which speaks for itself). They apparently weren’t of a mind to be faithful to their wives or perhaps there was an agreement with their wives that they would be discreet. The wives knew the game and carried on the family name producing more Kennedys and nice pr photos. It doesn’t sound much different than what goes on today. There are deals made all the time and none of the people were perfect. The 60s version of Camelot didn‘t exist except in the mind’s of those who wanted to believe in the attractive family, attractive and fashionable couple, and in hope for better things. Even in those imaginary castles people used the bathrooms, had illnesses, family secrets, etc. So, all of this has been chewed on already for decades along with other events. Tell me what‘s new in the film that I won’t be allowed to see because someone has clout?
Report Post »paulamadden
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:26amHmmm, I don‘t think it’s any secret what that family was like and the role that promiscuous sex played with those brothers. No big revelation there.
Report Post »jeromeGman
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:15amHistory Channel is for liberal readers only. What a wate of time to watch.
Report Post »scguitar
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:14amMore ways they are trying to change history. They want to preserve the Kennedy myth! Anybody notice how a dem will say he wants to be like Kennedy but do more or less what LBJ did? Nobody would ever say they want to be like LBJ. Like the trailer said, its the myth that counts! I encourage the people that made this to keep fighting. Fight the historical revision of the liberal left.
Report Post »FBarackO
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:12amTime to visit some international websites and download this thing. Any time the liberals don’t want something seen it wreaks of truth that is injurious to them.
Report Post »AmeriWoman
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:06amThe Kennedy’s. A legacy of corruption.
Every good thing they managed to do was over-shadowed by bad.
Starting with Catholicism all the way to their Politics.
The History channel wont have to wait long, history will show the truth anyway.
Report Post »Sunlight has a way of doing that!
pamela kay
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:02amThe Kennedy’s had alot of skeletons in their closets. Unlike most families they had the money and political pull to keep their family above the law. As the stories began to come out years ago many were devastated to learn the truth. They were an interesting family but their lives were filled with many scandles and much heartbreak. I have enjoyed the history channel in the past but lately they seem to be leaning somewhat to the left.If this series was cancelled because the facts were incorrect that is one thing. However if it were cancelled from the pressure from the progressives that puts everything in a different light. I would like to see it and judge for myself, then I guess that I would have to make a decision about whether or not to trust the accuracy of the history channel.
Report Post »emertz8413
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 6:41amCouldn’t have said it better!! I guess it comes down to trust, and I’m not trusting the History Channel much anymore!
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:27amYes Pamela the Kennedys did have alot of heartache,pain and death in their family but for the media to portray them as angles or Royalty is so wrong. thir Father was a criminal in my books and for a long time members of the Kennedy family could get by with murder but with all that said JFK did do somethings right
Report Post »SicSemperTyrranus
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:25amGreat point! Why not air the show and let the chips fall were they may! I used to enjoy the History Channel until it started airing crap about ice road truckers, lumberjacks, pawn dealers, and junk peddlers!!
Report Post »SicSemperTyrranus
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:32amGreat point!! What do ice road truckers, lumberjacks, pawn dealers, and junk peddlers have to do with history??? I stopped watching when these subjects started airing on the History Channel.
Report Post »sirdono
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 12:10amSomewhat to the left? Are you kidding?
You don’t have to bring politics into every single thing. They made a call on it‘s accuracy as history and whether or not to air a drama on History Channel and it’s impact on branding. Not everything is a leftist plot, actually it makes even more sense from a business stand point.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:56amJFK is considered by many today to be more of a Conservative than most conservatives. He did try to end the Fed. He took on the Ruskies and was strong on defense. I’m not a fan of make believe image types but he seemed to be the right man at the right time. He was certainly no Obama. I‘d like to see this movie just to look back to those days when America was on top and I’m sure they did a good job with the making it look like the 60′s. People will see them use real phones and Americans driving cool big cars.
Report Post »apollo18
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 7:41amKennedy, Ike, Harry Truman, all combat vets. None of them liberals, but you could say conservative democrat for Kennedy and Truman. Ike was a mild conservative. Until one of the current generation of combat vets from Iraq/Afghanistan gets to high office (Col. Allen West!), we won’t see the difficult decisions get implemented. We’re on the right track, but the withering opposition will wear them down unless they get a constant stream of public support.
Report Post »sirdono
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 12:12amHe didn’t try and end the Fed. That’s conspiracy theory and not related to facts.
There’s a valid reason on why Kennedy started issuing silver credits and it directly related to the efficient functioning of the Fed AT THE TIME under current law. You’re smart. You can find it.
Report Post »sirdono
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 3:01amJFK conservative? Like the civil rights the entire South turned from Democrat to Republican over?
Report Post »calijohn
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:55ami assume “lonestargigger” has something to do with texas.
Report Post »so i’ll ask this question – how is texas going to get out of a reported $25 billion budgetary hole?
maybe you should be looking for a few answers in texas.
paulamadden
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:28amMaybe you should look for some answers for the budgetary problems in your own state as well. Hmm?
Report Post »NCO
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:28amWell, we usually cut spending. Gov. Rick Perry said as much on FOX Sunday in mid-December. (It’s closer to $20 Billion, though)
Report Post »So what is your bankrupt state planning to do? (I assume it is Kaliphornia) Raise taxes on everything, even the hair on your back.
Instructions?
Stay put. Observe. Report back. Hide tofuu in door.
Nut. Enjoy the ride down!!!
paulamadden
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:30amSo Cali….I don’t think you should be critiquing any other State, should you? Really?
Report Post »calijohn
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:47amnco – where do you propose to cut spending?
just curious, hoping you have some suggestions that california could apply.
education? i heard that texas was last in spending on education.
health? i heard that texas was last in that, too.
scout n ambush
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:48amIt appears californexico will help Texas out by running all the buisnesses out of cal gone to texas.
Oil_Robb
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:52amIts real easy Cali…….with all the rvenues that are comming from the California transplanted companies
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 3:25amCALIJOHN deport the Mexicans, That would be a good start for cost cutting
Report Post »Mirac777
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:32amKleins trash piece in the NYTimes about tTexas’ debt has already proven to be nothing more than pathetic propaganda based on ignorant lib math and flat out lies.
I was going to post the article that exposed Klein’s stupidity , but screw you, I,ll leave you to rot in your liberal ignorance
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:33amAs a resident of Illinois, a state this in about as much trouble as California, I wish we had the financial problems that Texas has. Speaking as a resident of Illinois, only an idiot from Illinois would say anything about the financial problem Texas has when compared to ours. I believe that the same holds true for California.
Report Post »KL
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:53amThe History Channel is history in my house from now on.
Report Post »MyCommonSense
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:55amThat‘s what I’m thinking KL…
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:07amyup!
Report Post »The only thing the ******* entertainment executives understand is the bottom line.
who are the history channels advertisers???
beefjerky
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:11am… But your kids could be learning about how greedy and corupt all the slave owning founders were…,
Report Post »The History Channel gets a rated “R” in my home for its lies and slanders about our country. I have to tell the mis-informed children in our neighborhood who watch this propaganda the real story of our Founders. It’s all rumors and theories on this channel anymore.
Cuthalu
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:51amAbout time someone stepped up and dismantled the illusion that is the “great” Kennedy family. The fact the left hero worships and puts this family on par with…royalty is sickening. Our founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they knew we were treating some politician or his family as royalty. Enough already.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:19amEvil loves evil, the left is 100% evil.
Report Post »IntrepidSI
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:01pmFrom a Massachusetts resident who heard all the Kennedy crimes growing up that were hushed up – AGREE!
Report Post »zman173rd
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:50amWhat’s the big deal here? Wouldn’t it only be watched by liberals, then they wouldn’t talk about it so no harm no foul? much ado…
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:49amKatie Holmes as Jackie O?
Report Post »Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:58amI thought the same thing. Very odd casting choice.
Report Post »Mr.Obnoxious
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:49amDoesn’t fit the History brand? Then what does two guys digging through junk or a pawn shop have to do with history?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 3:05amrecycling junk doesn’t offend Libs /Mexicans/Blacks/Gays/Muslins………..Thou shall not offend
Report Post »Spawnomite
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 3:58amSaid group of people are target demograph when it comes to exciting shows about digging through trash.
SicSemperTyrranus
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:11amAlso, what does driving over ice, driving through dangerous roads around the world, or chopping down trees have to do with history? I stopped watching the History Channel a long time ago.
Report Post »stmike
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:49amUgh ill stick to jerry springer
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:46amAfter seeing the trailer I’m interested in seeing the show.Guess we won’t get to see anything even slightly critical of a democratic icon .
Report Post »SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:42amThe History Channel….Where History THAT THE CHANNEL APPROVES OF…is made every day……I hope it get released…anyway..just like the Reagan one did on Showtime..
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:50amThere is no history for the ********…..first the re-write of Tom Sawyer and then the bible……Satan at work
Report Post »MMR
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:41amKind of fishy! Could it be that perhaps it has too much of the truth in the miniseries?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:49amSo any bets when the history channel will air that movie about GWB’s assasination ?
Report Post »Locke
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:16amPretty much…see if it had been a liberal director etc, etc no problem everything would be fine. But to show JFK as the man he was rather than the portrait we’re shown, now we just can’t do that. Fact: JFK had a drug and alcohol addictions created, supposedly from an injury. Fact: JFK was a womanizer. Fact: somehow none of this mattered and he ended up being a decent president. His most memorable quote should be something we conservatives/libertarians should place on flags today to remind the liberals that it’s not what government can do for us but what we can do for ourselves and our country.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:48amsellt to Fox for 10 cents on the dollar….
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:13amAgreed. Re-written history? Yep, belongs on Fox.
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:40pmWhen I saw Cheryl Crowe and that professor form the Obama beer summit host a show on the History Channel, I realized that the History Channel cant be trusted either. They are not interested in History, the are interested in rewriting history
Report Post »calijohn
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:39ama business decision
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:19amyeah by George Soros.
Report Post »mcfinch
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 4:43amYep by soros.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Video Website
Report Post »geminisailor
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:34amCensorship at it’s finest…from those who claim to be the champions of free speech.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:59amI wonder how many of these same people watched and cheered the movie that included the assination of GWB?
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:19amNot a business decision, a censorship decision.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:07pm“assination”, gee maybe I should go get another cup of coffee?
Report Post »John_Free
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:14pmHas anyone noticed that little sideways Pyramid to the left of the “H”?
Don your tinfoil and you can figure out the tie-in.
Report Post »LoneStarGigger
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:36amWe just got done running the last of these leeches out of politics and now they want to subject people to their sorry life story? There has literally been nothing good come out of Massachusetts in over 200 years, and the future looks even dimmer for them. Enough of this corrupt family. Good riddance!
Report Post »calijohn
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Report Post »WestOfThePecos
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 6:49amI just read ‘The Conquerors’ about Roosevelt and Truman during the war with Hitler which was based on secret documents, letters, memos, etc obtained through the Freedom of Information Act from the US, England, Germany and Russia AND there was a lot of new personal information that has never been exposed to the public. I suspect that this mini series probably exposes a lot of additional personal information that many of us never knew about and others would deny as fact.
I hope Showtime picks up the series. I will watch it in a heart beat so I can compare it to what I have read in the past. Oh wait, isn’t that what history is about? This show is History Channels lose.
Report Post »SicSemperTyrranus
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:16amI agree! Well, maybe the Red Sox of 2004 were a good thing to come out of Massachusetts.
Report Post »IntrepidSI
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:59pmThere are some conservative voices here in Massachusetts. The problem with the Kennedy “Mystique” is Joe was a bootlegger and a criminal, He paid $100 million (by his own admission) for election. Jack was no better. The old timers here remember him with rose colored glasses, the truth is (an anyone who knew them will tell you), they were drunks, they were shtooking anything with a pulse, they were using their money to bully everyone they could and they were thieves. As someone who grew up in Massachusetts, I can regail you with story after story, but those kool-aid drinkers who loved Jack, mourned for Bobby and elected Teddy because they thought he was Jack never want to hear the bad stuff. They kept going to the polls on election day, putting Fat Teddy in and teaching their kids it’s dirty to be anything but a Democrat. It’s like fighting brain washed North Koreans here.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:02pmWell, that is a brilliant decision – spent millions making the darn movie and then oops — doesn’t meet our standards. They actually believe that no one knows all the dirty secrets of the Kennedys but hey, we do – and I for one would love to see the movie. I have heard that the movie is excellent and they took pains to recreate some historical events. Someone got to them and paid them off.
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cheezwhiz
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:34amHis film included a “dramatization” of some of the scenes, including one where President Kennedy supposedly tells his brother Robert about why he needed to have sex with different women.
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I don’t get it.
Report Post »JFK wanted Robert to stay away from JFK’s women ?
or
JFK wanted Robert to seek variety ?
FBarackO
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:10amI understood it to mean that John told Robert why he (John) needed multiple women (basically a confession)
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:12am@ Cheezwhiz I think it is about the fact that JFK had so many affairs while he was President and told Brother Bobby why he (JFK) needed to have so many different women,I can’t remember the others he had affairs with other than Marilyn Monroe being the most talked about,His people worked very very hard to cover up for him, He made Clinton look like and amateur,
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:53amI used to love the Hitler Channel. Now they have become so PC I cant watch anymore.
MR_ANDERSON
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 5:21am“We have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand,” the network said in a statement late Friday.
On a side note however, they will be showing Ancient Aliens season two at its regular time.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 5:56amI guess the part where Teddy drives his car into the lake and then goes home for a nap while his date drowned was too much. Or maybe it was the corruption of Daddy Kennedy that made all the money in the first place. Or maybe it was JFK screwing everything that walked or maybe it was Robert making deals with organized crime for cash…I dunno, but the truth will set you free…They don’t want to hear it.
Camelot? Maybe Sodom would have been a better name…
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 6:49amI think JFK was an insider that grew afraid at what was happening
Report Post »to America and so he turned against the powers that put him in office
then suddenly they were bringing out all his affairs.
Funny that works.
DagneyT
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 6:57am“owned by the A&E Television Networks, which itself is owned jointly by NBC Universal, the Walt Disney Co. and the Hearst Corp” Now there’s a conservative….cough….choke….group. Yeah. Right.
Bottom line, the left cannot allow a truthful documentary to get out, it might smear the fable that is known as the Kennedy’s American Camelot.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 7:45amNow they think history can be branded. Retarded libs. Classic, we will only show history how we want it to be. Like the first cow lady says, “we will change history”. You can’t change history ya bag pipe..
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 7:55amThe liberals have their own Keddedy lie/myth. The actual facts don’t play well with what the brothers really were.
Report Post »This is very funny from a channel that gives you such wonderful features as “life after humans” and tries to keep up the scam of global warming.
But see who they are owned by, and you will know the truth.
ozz
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:02am@tower7femacamp I agree with 99% of what you said.
Report Post »What fool can read history and not see that European old school money has been manipulating countries including ours for a very long time.
Jackson, Lincoln, Kennedy, and Reagan all up set their apple cart and were assassinated or it was attempted shortly after they dared to mess with their control of our money.
Think it is just conspiracy theory?
Ask your self…who owns the federal reserve and why?
Mister President
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:02amIt’s just like when CBS had to pull the miniseries about the Reagans a few years ago. Although, I don’t really hold CBS to the same standards that I hold The History Channel. I expect CBS to skew history. Liberals just don’t want to know the truth.
Report Post »Redd
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:11amJFK was assassinated by the Mafia/democrat KKK.
Report Post »JGP
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:48amQuestions raised:
Report Post »Do they hold the same standard for all of their shows? I doubt it.
Was it shelved because apparently a conservative was involved? Maybe.
Was it totally an inaccurate potrayal? May never know.
Is any Hollywood product of history ever accurate? HA!
I’m I skeptical of any of the BS coming from the idiot box or Hollywood? 100%
hickoryrat
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:11amI think America has had enough of the Kennedys .
Report Post »Their communist dynasty has helped ruin this country.
SOOOOO no great loss.
WhiteFang
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:40amHollywood is not known for their strict adherence to accurate history when making films like this. They take an editing pen and cross events out and freely add opinionated events that never occurred. Just look at what they do to biblical stories. By the time the movie comes out, the public gets a inaccurate and even false idea of the facts. It is 75% fiction and 25% semi-fact.
So, I say, good for the History Channel.
Ray2447
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:11amUh, J. Edgar Hoover wanted JFK to stay away from a certain woman who was familiar with a certain mobster out of fear of damage to the Presidency. That assertion was on one of the DVD’s I viewed this past summer, and the assertion was made by someone close to the administration.
As far as the womanizing trail, man oh man, is that a long and winding trail, but Bobby appears to have been far more straight laced in that regard than JFK – from info I have researched.
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:18amI think “The History Channel” was in the process of raising a lot of questions that have merit. I‘ve already connected a lot of dots regarding the Kennedy’s, after doing extensive research, but I’ve never, ever seen that done in the media. I think “The History Channel” had a great project in the making, but one that the left wing media knew would be extensively damaging to the false image of a Democrat party icon revered as morally impeccable.
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:19amTHIS IS A STORY THAT MUST BE TOLD.
This is a story that must be shown to the American people, they have a right to see it. Kennedy was seconds away from launching a nuclear war with the USSR and we must know what kind of man could do such a thing.
Kennedy, the American curse.
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:23amWHO AND WHAT WAS THE THREAT MADE TO HAVE THIS KENNEDY STORY PULLED?
The House should investigate why this Kennedy story was pulled and who ordered it pulled. Was it Obama? Will the copies be destroyed?
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:27amIF I HAD THE MONEY I WOULD BUY THE COPYRIGHT FROM THE HISTORY CHANNEL AND RELEASE IT IN THE MOVIES.
It would make more money and be seen by more people than AVATAR. Kennedy was the first Democrat Icon, the first Democrat Massia, the first Democrat who attempted to destroy our nation.
Report Post »RightWrite
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:37amThis decision is not about the politics, it’s about the money! The politics is just a good excuse to sell the series for big money in the U.S.A.. Give it away on History channel? Or sell for huge money to pay-cable?
Report Post »docvet
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:03pm@tower7…
Report Post »If what you say is true, why are you telling us? Have you sent this to the speaker of the house, Fox news, Glenn Beck, all Fox news anchors, POTUS (probably a waste of good electrons) your senators and congressman and others that may be able to verify this and take appropriate action? I find it hard to believe that this executive order is still in force after all these years, but stranger things have happend in govt.
Balladeer
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:07pmto Mr_Anderson….THANK YOU I needed that chuckle about the Ancient Aliens reference….unfortunately i have to wipe off the screen laughter turned into a spit take
Report Post »White Devil
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:27pmIn other new, The History Channel has announced that it is changing it’s name to “The Re-written History Channel”, Liberal news at 11:00.
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:42pmThey dont want the kids to know the truth about who killed JFK. a COMMUNIST !!!!!!! They want everyone to focus on a consipiricy theory
Report Post »bostonchris
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:46pmmaybe its about how they were the biggest crime syndicate in america before the presidency..running booze and foreclosing on americans that they preyed upon during their banking days. you remember the first housing crisis that was never supposed to happen again.then bill clinton and allan greenspan thought woulsnt it be great if every american can own a home. maybe teddy gave them the idea??
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:04pm@ tower 7 … Yes, I do think many things you write are far fetched, but this one has caught my attention. For those of you who may have a hard time gathering how the “Feds” have caused many deaths in our nation in order to protect their ability to make money off the interest of our debt. Most believe this is the main reason Lincoln was assasinated as well. The same goes for the attempted murder of President Jackson as he was looking to remove the power away from the Federal Reserve as well. Fortunately, the man who tried to kill him has a misfire with the gun he was using. Of course he went to court and was let off for being mentally insane. It was said that while drunk in a bar later, he had admitted being hired by people from the Bank of England. The same evil corrupt power weilding people who have fought to make sure they kept these powers to print money in their hands since the founding of our nation. There a great deal of documented history relating to these evil bastards .. If you have a good few hours, watch this documentary , “Money Masters” on You Tube. I warn you, once you start watching, you won’t be able too stop. This Documentary explains and supports how monitary systems have been the root of evil since the times dating back to even before Christ. Check it out. I was actually very spooked, as I am even now a little, when I post this. Not much spooks me either but this really does… I may need to watch this again ..
At Tower7, I will check this out, I already had a strong feeling that this is who this was. They control and own the media, judges and politicians. The Federal Reserve or International Bankers are the ones behind the Euro. The best part about this doco is that it is not conspiratorial in any ways, it is backed by facts and documented information to support any assumptions they bring to the table ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlIhhYGujoQ
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:24pm@ Tower 7 , It didn’t take long to find a video stating what I already knew and researched, only , with the added facet of Kennedy, as they have is recorded statement adressing the public .. for those of you who wish to find out the evil that will bring down our civilization and has been and always will be at war with the last remaining barrier stopping them from controlling the world, The Constitution of The United States, watch this shorter version of a video posted below .. This is no joke and infuriates me … These are those who wish for One World Government, Woodrow Wilson, that EVIL VILE man !! He gave the bank back to these people… So Beck is right about him … We must end this and take back our monitary system. These people have no Loyalty to America, they only see us as standing in the way now .. There is so much more, with big Industry and other avenues they had to gain control over, but the Federal Reserve will is setting the final stage to collapse our Great Nation… but not with out a fight .. PLease watch this video, a brief truth of all you need to know.. the rest you can research yourself ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USGSOViaulc&feature=related
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:45pmHistory has proven that the Kennedy’s were notorious womanizers. Who can deny this fact or say it’s not a part of the story of the Kennedy Dinasty ? Stories based on historical fact should be accurate in every detail and we should let the chips lay where they fall.
Report Post »CCRYDER
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 3:27pmWe all know he was a player. I hope another station has the guts to air the show….the trailer was really good!
Report Post »AmericanSoldier
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 4:04pmThe same history channel that has Ancient Aliens? I prefer History channel since they still have documentaries. TLC and Discovery have lost their way big time.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 6:11pmI guess they (NBC-Disney-History Channel) don‘t want the American people to know or hear the truth about the crooked and corrupt things the Kennedy’s were involved in. Funny how this will be shown in all kinds of other countries, but not in the good old USA.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:17pmhope it goes straight to video!
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:21pmWait, what?
The History Channel‘s position is that conservatives are incapable of producing a historical docudrama that wouldn’t be hopelessly biased? But they don’t ave problems interviewing Doris Kearns Goodwin, et al for their ‘official’ views of presidencies…
The ironic part is that with the exception of the dalliances, Kennedy would be a social and fiscal conservative in comparison to the bunch calling themselves democrats today.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:31pmahhhhh shucks! I was hoping the prez was up for some celebrity death-match and his goons were gonna set it up
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PlanetXenu
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:29pmit’s interesting to see the coments on this news site. Tower7 knows what he’s talking about. Kennedy had changed his mind. the powers that be control those in their places by whatever means they can, such as sex. Because of his fathers connection the nazi party, he was a prime fit to be president. on youtube look up “amazing jfk speech! he tells you the truth”. This whole conservative v.s. liberal bs is destroying the country, but what can we do about it. Conservatives will believe anything republicans tell them and liberals will let dems do whatever. anyone remember when Glenn Beck played the interview of Ben Bernake saying “we are creating a world government”? Conspiracy Theorists: 1 everyone else:0. nuff said. and by the way another person who had nazi ties…
Report Post »Prescott Bush. look it up… or watch Jersey Shore, which ever you choose.
lketchum
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 12:29am@Dustyluv
No, it was the truth that the end of the Cuban Middile Crisis came about when the Soviets, in a panic, ordered their missle systems removed immediately.
Contrary to the BS that the left and its media machine have spewed out over the last 48 years, it was not some deft back-room diplomacy that ended the crisis.
In fact, the Soviets were the ones who were MOST anxious to get the missiles out of there. You see, Castro was calling for an immediate attack on the United States with those weapons and it was the Soviets who said: “He is a madman; get the war heads out of there now and get the rest as fast as possible and tell the Americans that if they must, they can invade and we will help them.”
Now… there is a reason that I can quote that, because it is exactly what Premier Nikita Khrushchev
said. The Soviet position was one of utter panic, BUT Kennedy and his staff of very inexperienced senior aids did not believe him, or Gen. Lemay, who asserted that the Soviets would do nothing to stop the invasion they themselves hoped we would execute to stop Castro.
Nikita Khrushchev was so shaken by the events and the thought of Castro having access to such weapons that he suffered a series of migrain headaches during the crisis and a near nervous breakdown. He was replaced in 64 in name only – in reality, he had not been in charge since mid of the crisis.
President Kennedy so badly managed the crisis that its legacy not only removed vital mediom ranged missles from Turkey and prevented their modernization, it ensured that Castro and other Communists would export death and abject poverty throughout the region unto this day. For example, Daniel Ortega is back in Nicaragua – a place where I helped to create and sustain a hospital, along with many others as part of the Friends Of Rudy (Rudy Vargas, MD – a dear friend determined to help people there).
The left and those who would subvert the memory of President Kennedy cannot have the truth be known. Kennedy was flawed, much too young, and not fully in control of his administration. That’s the truth and it cost millions of innocent people their lives and his later rush into South East Asia (Vietnam) wsa in response to his feelings that he had let the people of OAS down and bungled the Cuban Missile Crisis so badly. The depiction of Gen. Lemay, a thoughtful man who wanted to prevent all wars, by remaining very strong, has been particularly terrible and flat out wrong. The left does nothing but lie and they have so twisted history, very few people without direct access to the decrypts, can ever know the truth. Oh, and the truth is always far more interesting than the fiction, or anything in film. The reality is that Hollywood doesn’t have much by way of imagination at all.
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