I'll tell you one thing, if this were MY father you can bet I would NEVER want ANYONE to know what he did. Not for all the tea in China.
That would make sense if there weren't two reporters waiting for your father to die before they let the world know the truth. In this way he at least has a little control over how he'll be characterized by this knowledge. Plus, he'll be able to leave a substantial estate to his children and grandchildren. Enough to have he and his family grinning from ear to ear. Incidentally, what they intend to do with the money is their own business. I'm sure we've heard is what they think we want to hear.
Tumbling down rabbit holes is not my style. I'll leave it to conspiracy theorists to divine the insidious nature of the family's motivation. (insert eyeroll)
I don't give a darn how they spend the money. Just seems odd to me that they waited until he was senile to out him. HIS story won't be told. We won't hear HIS side of it. That's the shame of it all. We will still only get W&B. Which is heresay.....same with the daughter.
Why would he care? Felt was a man with high connections. He had all kinds of ways to redeem his own "history" (or control of his "character" as you say). Aliases serve very well. Just ask Bernstein. "The True Story of Deep Throat"... by Deep Throat. If that isn't a perfect 70s title, I don't know what is.
Perhaps, and I do have a copy somewhere, when Bernstein came out with his latest "media event" claiming he'd name DT WHEN DT died.. the family began their plans, right then. But why bother?
If you listen to the left, the left adores Bernstein. They worship at his alter. Just check out this site: Into The Buzz Saw: 18 Tales of Media Censorship if you think even the left was going to permit a "real, documented first-hand account of "deep Throat" without Bernstein's or the Left's "approval". And everyone here thinks the "family" and Bernstein are working "separately"? I don't.
The reporters concealed the truth because the father had asked them to.
You act like they made him stay anonymous all these years.
In this way he at least has a little control over how he'll be characterized by this knowledge.
He has ALWAYS had that power.