TV Channel Weighs JFK-Johnson Film Inquiry

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TV Channel Weighs Inquiry Into Film That Accused Johnson of Conspiracy in Kennedy Assassination

LOS ANGELES Feb. 5 — Former aides to President Johnson met with History Channel executives Wednesday to demand a re-examination of a program that accused Johnson of conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination.

"We can't let stand the blatant falsity of the allegation in that program," Larry Temple, special counsel in the Johnson White House and president of The LBJ Foundation, said after the meeting in New York.

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Kennedy's killing remains a controversial event and the channel presented a series of programs that looked at many conspiracy theories about Kennedy's death, some contradictory, the statement said. "The History Channel does not endorse any specific theory," it said.

Tom Johnson said the executives expressed concern that the issue had been "ratcheted up" by letters from Ford, Carter and Mrs. Johnson to the chief executives of NBC, Hearst Corp. and The Walt Disney Corp., which own A&E Networks.

more: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/ap20040205_34.html

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1. Good I'm glad they are not standing by silently while A and E

rewrites history in the form of a documentary.

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2. Two things here

1) Bill Moyers, LBJ Press Secretary had a couple things to say about this program also in relation the Reagan Mini Series

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MOYERS: But the other day, the History Channel ran a documentary about the Kennedy assassination, and suggested that the men around Lyndon Johnson, of whom yours truly was one.

LEONARD: Yes. Yes.

MOYERS: Were responsible for his assassination. A few people, a few of my old colleagues from the Johnson era protested. But not only did the History Channel proceed with it, but they are repeating it. Now how do you explain that?

LEONARD: Well here what an interesting question. Because I haven't had a chance to say this to anybody or in any of my various venues. I think the NEW YORK TIMES is partly to blame. Or maybe even largely to blame.
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For the full transcript
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_leonard.html


2) This is about censorship. Are we able to have our own opinions and able to deal with other people's opinions or do we shut down the whole system? This is a question about being objective.