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Article: LBJ STORY COMES UP SHORT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 31, 1987
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CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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There aren't many of us left - you and I and the milkman,
perhaps -- whose lives have yet to be dramatized on television.
The networks already have gone through Peter the Great, Albert
Speer, Marco Polo, Grace Kelly, Columbus, Lincoln, Twain, Patton,
Washington, Hitler, Hoffa, Ike, Elizabeth Taylor and Mata Hari, not
to mention the Osmond Family, and don't forget the Kennedys; John,
Robert, Jackie and Teddy Jr. makes four.
Television does many things badly, as we know, but it reaches
contemptible levels when it attempts to reshape public figures and
rewrite history. At a minimum, these pseudo-historical dramas
oversimplify reality, and often as not, they pervert it.
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