A 'MIGHT HAVE BEEN' IN JFK BOOK ROW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100060021-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: June 6, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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In JF~~ hook Row
r William Manchester's "The would be better for ?them not
W Death of a President" might?~? to read it.'?
I have. been avoided if the Calling' himself ?`the only
f. family-instead of proxies- ',villain in the situation if there.
had read the original manus= a villain " Thomas said he
'~. cript, according to the publish- now realizes it was "a mistake
er's executive vice president.. not to have had the communi-
~ Evan Thomas~of Harper and- , eations directly between the
~~ "`~"L ` Among the authors honored ,
i "If I had it to do over again, at the reception were former
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~ I .would have been a better ,CIA director Allen Dulles, .,
middlema?. I urged them to
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name pt?oxies. The situation
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or Cultural Affairs Charles
might have been saved if I Frankel; Pulitzer Prize win- ~
.had urged them to read it
ping author Constance , Mc, ?
themselves instead." Laughlin Green and golum?'
Thomas was one of the hosts nists Clayton 1~ rltchey end'
' at Harper's 150th anniversary Marquis Childs, ~,.: ; ?, , ? ?. t~
celebration last night at the _............ ;.v~.,:,,,,;;~;~; ~,;,~?~
Powell -auditorium, at which ~'
~ ~' Washington authors were ~~
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Mrs.. Corsfance McLaughlin Green chats with fellow quthor
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the.~.Cosmos Club last night.