Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 1. 1967.
Manchester emerged
Manchester emerged
Some health-destroying and laborious months later, Manchester emerged from the gossip-factory that is Washington, and took his manuscripts of "Death of a President" to the editorial panel of four, selected by the Kennedys to exercise their right of review. Many of the modifications which Manchester duly deleted in his revised version concerned factual inaccuracies and signs of political leanings on his part.
Things proceeded sufficiently smoothly for Manchester to arrange publication and to hawk his product for serialisation. The profits to himself, even after deductions for the Kennedy Memorial, were obviously going to be substantial.
Then, as everyone now knows, Mrs. Kennedy entered the scene in a rather devastating fashion. Decrying the book (which she had apparently not read) as a "tasteless and distorted" invasion of the family privacy, she proceeded to sue the publishers to stop publication.
After the agonised negotiations which apparently followed, the Authorised Version appeared in a gratifying blaze of publicity. Finally even the German magazine Stern, the joker in the pack, bent before the prevailing wind and deleted appropriate passages in the serialisation.