Author of JFK Book Was Most Shocked by Vietnam Revelations
Patrick J. Sloyan is paying a visit today to Iowa's Grinnell College.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Patrick J. Sloyan is visiting Iowa’s Grinnell College today, to meet with and speak to students. No doubt one of the topics will be his 2015 book The Politics of Deception: JFK’s Secret Decisions on Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Cuba.
Sloyan listened to hundreds of hours of Kennedy audio recordings while researching the book. As he told Megan Tcheng, a writer with Grinnell’s student newspaper The Scarlet and Black, ahead of today’s visit, his view of Kennedy changed greatly as a result of what he discovered:
“As I got in to it, certain tape recordings leapt out at me.
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