JFK Photo Trips Up TMZ
TMZ may have gained a healthy chunk of credibility over the past year by being the first to report the death of Michael Jackson, but alas, nobody’s perfect.
The site admitted Monday that a photo it posted Monday morning, which allegedly pictured President John F. Kennedy on a boat filled with naked women in the mid-1950, was a fake, The New York Times‘ ArtsBeat reported.
TMZ corporate sibling The Smoking Gun blew the whistle, saying that the photo was actually from a spread in Playboy in November 1967, four years after Kennedy was assassinated.
From the original TMZ post:
Professor Jeff Sedlik, a forensic photo expert, says the print appears to be authentic.
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