[Richard Kimball]

Good info. As a kid, I was fascinated by Kennedy, as he was the first politician I knew about that wasn't a geezer. I read "John F. Kennedy and PT109" and was in the 4th grade when he was assassinated. It wasn't until years later, when I re-evaluated him as an adult that I realized how much of the stuff about him was part of a manufactured image. I remember the book about the 1968 elections called "The Selling of the President" about how Nixon was packaged and sold as a commodity. I thought it was funny, because no President was ever packaged and sold as successfully as Kennedy.

The Profiles in Courage thing has always set off my BS detector. It's like a guy comes in off the street and gets named the starting quarterback for the Super Bowl and wins, having never played a game before and never playing again. The rumors I'd heard were that Theodore Sorenson, his primary speech writer, wrote most of it.

[yarddog]

After reading your reply, I realized I have heard of Sorenson as the ghost writer. I decided to look it up and indeed he is often credited as the writer.

I noticed some think it was both of them collaborating, by both I mean Sorenson and Sclesinger, not Sorenson and Kennedy.