by William Hardcastle
William Manchester 's book Death of a President is published tomorrow. Its vast pre-publication success is a symptom of the compulsive fascination of John F. Kennedy , in life as in death, for almost everybody all over the world. Why? On what is the fascination based? On a cult that will fade, or a greatness that will last?
WILLIAM HARDCASTLE tries to answer these questions with the help of LORD HARLECH (as Sir David Ormsby-Gore , British Ambassador in Washington)
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
PIERRE SALINGER
President Kennedy's Press Secretary
ALISTAIR COOKE
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
GORE VIDAL
ANTHONY LEWIS , New York Times
KARL MEYER , The Washington Post
PROFESSOR HARRY ALLEN , Director. Institute of U.S. Studies. London
DOUGLAS STUART and ERIK DE MAUNY both former BBC correspondents in Washington and the BBC Sound Archives
Script written and presented by William Hardcastle
Produced by Eleanor Ransome
A World at One production