David Talbot, JFK Historian, Says Stop The Kennedy Smears

http://stopkennedysmears.com/ - Sign the petition telling History Channel that until they stop running politically motivated fiction as historical "fact," you will refuse to watch their programming.

Almost 50,000 of you signed our petition to the History Channel telling them that you refuse to watch their programming if theyre going to produce right-wing propaganda and call it history.

In response to our video and your petition, Stephen Kronish, a screenwriter for The Kennedys, told The New York Times that he based his script on books by renowned Kennedy historians, mentioning David Talbot as one of his sources. If Im wrong, Kronish told The Times, I guess all of them are wrong.

So we tracked down David Talbot, who has read the script, and asked him what he thinks of Kronishs claim to have based his story on Talbots research. This video shows what Talbot had to say.

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[TrueNovice]

@theshadow1932 They men who served with Kennedy in the US Navy liked and honored him because they knew him well. And you don't know anything.

[ThisBoyTV]

History being rewritten this way is garbage. I can see by the children posting that they never had to hide under their desks for fear of nuclear war.

President Kennedy stood tall and stopped that threat by signing a treaty with Premiere Khrushchev. That's the story that needs to be told over and over even though the kids will never actually know the fear we felt every day.

[Elin48]

Thank you.

[miragesmack]

Honestly, without seeing it, I'll never know if it's biased or not. Not a huge fan of censorship generally, or those who support it. I'm surprised a so called film maker is supporting censorship.

I loved Jack and Bobby, my two favorite politicians ever. There have never been anything close to them since. So ANYTHING they say about them won't hurt me too much. I knew these guys weren't always Saints. The rest of the family I could care less about, many of which were horrible people.

[vivimaze]

I absolutely agree that this film is biased and should not be aired. (Thank goodness it's not). There is never an excuse strong enough to justify propaganda and mis-information. But please, don't make this over politicized. I'm a moderate conservative who tends to go republican, but I was just as offended by this smear of the Kennedys as anyone else.

[skiingpowder10]

kate holmes LOOKS VERY BAD OVER THIS. ... is she a deer in the headlights and didnt know that this mini series was factually wrong or she knew the smears and wanted to be part of it.... either way for an Actor this is a bad thing..

on the STOP KENNEDY SMEARS ... Congrats to you and all who have donated to your cause YOU WON !!!!

[MoJoSB]

Thank god the History channel did not become THAT kind of station.

Look, this film has every right to be made but it will end up in the dust bin of film history. It's just right wing nonsense, like most stuff coming out of the right these days. What happen to the conservatives in this country?

I never agreed with the right but at least they had a firm grasp on reality and fantasy. These days, I can hardly believe what I am witnessing as the right spins huge lies and gets crazier and crazier.

[StoogeWatcher]

But liberals had no problem smearing Ronald Reagan.

[StoogeWatcher]

@themeaningoflife38 Left-wingers are fascists: Anti-Jewish, anti-Christian, pro-abortion, pro-Sharia.

[quarkmuffin37]

we are opposed by a conspiracy, which has conscripted vast human and technical resources into the weaving of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine... RIP Kennedy, these fucking conservative retards will forgive ted haggard for gay meth romps, while you boned Marylin Monroe, and they call you evil. America consistently produces a seam of vile banal ignorants, who are a cancer on the face of humanity. One part of the reason he was killed was because he was getting too interested in UFO's...

[999Thip]

why dont liberals want to talk about obummers occidental college records-under the name of barry soetoro ,he reeived financial aid as a foreign student from indonesia as an undergraduate.

[1stTrillionaire]

You tell em david!