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B8 GETTYSBURG TIMES, MONDAY, JANUARY 12,1998 JFK mythmaking vs. JFK muckraking WASHINGTON (AP) All right, he was a reckless philanderer. Maybe he did use his father's money in his campaign for the White House. OK: He sanctioned an attempted political assassination in Cuba and perhaps in South Vietnam as well, employed the mob as an instrument of statecraft and concealed from the public the state of his health. People concede all that about John F.

Kennedy, and it doesn't seem to matter. A disconnect exists between the Kennedy of American memory and the scoundrel who comes across in books, films and television shows. Seymour Hersh's relentless "The Dark Side of Camelot" is the most recent, but the diagnosis goes far back. On the day Kennedy was killed, the No. 1 best seller was Victor Lasky's acid-inked "JFK: The Man and the Myth." And, for those who don't get their history from books, there was Oliver Stone's 1991 conspiratorial film, "JFK." Revelation follows disclosure, gossip becomes fact, but Kennedy's place seems unalterable, not only among Americans old enough to have been exposed to his charm but among their children, who feel the glow second hand John Hellmann, author of "The Kennedy Obsession," calls JFK "a secular saint." "As a staunch Republican," says John Trew, a post-JFK baby and a senior at George Mason University in Fairfax, "I have high esteem for him.

He was one of the inspirational leaders of our time. He stood up to the Soviet Union, and that's an inspiration, to have the courage to do that. I rank him right below Lincoln and Washington." The last time a national pollster asked, in 1991, Kennedy's was the face the American people most wanted added to Mount Rushmore. In a 1997 poll of 719 "knowledgeable" people, Kennedy was ranked 15th of the 41 presidents. It is not that his unsavory side is unknown.

As a leader, Kennedy was rated eighth among all presidents in that 1997 poll; as a man of character and integrity, he ranked 34th. "What makes Kennedy impervious to some of the personal stuff was the Cuban missile crisis," says Tim Blessing, historian at Alvernia College in Reading, Pa. "No matter how much people complain and think he failed at so many things, you have that one shining moment. The idea that Kennedy saved us from nuclear war is fixed, and I don't think that will ever go away." But Blessing parts company with other teachers about how his students view Kennedy. "My young people tend to see Kennedy as a fixation of the older generation," he said.

"They are much too removed to see him as glamorous. I think they see him as quaint." And Bill Southworth of the University of Redlands in Redlands, who has taught a freshman seminar on Kennedy for 17 years, says women students leave his classroom appalled at Kennedy's treatment of women. "The women think he was an immoral or amoral person, not acceptable," Southworth said. "The men think he was immoral but effective, largely because of the Cuban crisis." Kennedy debunker Thomas C. Reeves, a historian and author of a 1991 book, "A Question of Character," attributes Kennedy's reputation to three factors: a deliberate attempt by family and friendly historians "to manufacture a hero;" the fact that the Kennedys were "beautiful people, physically attractive;" and the "general historical illiteracy" in a country loath to read history.

"An awful lot of people don't want to know the truth," Reeves says. "They desperately want heroes and since heroes are in short supply they cling to the myths of the past." Other historians and biographers say several factors account for Kennedy's standing in the public mind: An assassin's bullet martyred him. Every American experienced, through television, the shock and grief and injustice of his murder, the insult of his blood spilled on his wife's clothes. Because he was taken so young, he remains forever young in the mind's eye. And just often enough to keep the Kennedy legend current, something happens to bring the Kennedy triumphs and tragedies to mind, most recently the skiing accident that killed John Kennedy's nephew, Michael Kennedy.

The first president born in the 20th century, he was unlike any predecessor. He had flash: a war hero, a sense of humor, a grin, a beautiful wife who floored the French. He could joke about himself, pleading guilty to nepotism by saying he would announce the appointment of his brother to the Cabinet by cracking open his front door at midnight and whispering, "It's Bobby." He was a master of television. Before Kennedy, no president dared to invite the cameras to capture his press conferences live. With television, Kennedy brought the people into his governance, made them partners.

He was articulate. Even now, people with scant sense of history can finish the sentence, "Ask The American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations has eight quotations from Ronald Reagan, 11 from Dwight D. Eisenhower and 44 from JFK. "The fact is that people see him as having lost his life in the service of his country," says historian Robert) Dallek, author of "Hail to the Chiefi The Making and Unmaking American Presidents." "We crave an aristocracy," Dalleto adds, groping for a fuller explana-, tion. "We have none.

His words echo for people. All this his womanizing and even his fail-j ures and shortcomings in the White? House." :3 Other historians make the point! that Hersh's revelations, sordid asj they are, did not take people by! surprise. Word has seeped out ovefti the years about Kennedy's the attempt to assassinate Castro, the role of father Kennedy's bankroll in the 1960 election, even the challengeable Chicago vote count that gave Kennedy his 1960 victory. "It's not like you're taking a and suddenly revealing him as sinner," says Caryl Rivers, a jouu nalism professor at Boston University who is writing a about those days. "You're takingli someone whom the public knew as aL very imperfect person and yet, I think, was fascinated by promise, his achievements, charisma." "People are beginning to there never were any perfect' heroes," she adds.

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Solicitor NOTICE The York Springs Borough Zoning Hearing board will meet on Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 7:30 p.m. EST in The Community Room of Adams County Hational Bank, 202 Main Springs, PA." Wayne R. Shirley M. Wolf are requesting a special exception for a property located at 147 Main Street, York Springs, in accordance with Article VII Section 703 of the zoning ordinance. The applicant wishes to establish a meeting and social room for Post 6943, Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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This transfer amends the current permit to allow for limited and occasional small scale blasting to be conducted between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. A copy of the transfer application is available for public review at Mount Joy Township Building, 902 Hoffman Home Road, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325. Written objections to the transfer of this permit may be submitted to: Department of Environmental Protection Field Operations Mining Reclamation, District Mining Manager, 5 West Laurel Boulevard, Pottsville, PA 17901-2454. Objections must be submitted no later than February 26, 1998.

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