Why ‘they’ killed the Kennedys

BROTHERS, THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE KENNEDY YEARS. By David Talbot, Simon & Schuster, €27.

BROTHERS, THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE KENNEDY YEARS. By David Talbot, Simon & Schuster, €27.

There are two ways to have bad news broke n to you: the meandering sympathetic approach, which at times can prolong the agony and the bluntly curt. For such a contradictory, dangerous and complexly Machiavellian man, J Edgar Hoover was decidedly curt.

He was also not in the habit of making weekend phone calls to somebody he despised ...