JFK’s real message from beyond the grave – don’t believe everything you hear | John Naughton
Digital music and audio | The Guardian 2018-03-25
Summary:
In a world where every digital recording could be fake, our relationship with information has never been more precarious
When John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on 22 November 1963, he was on his way to deliver a speech to the assembled worthies of the city. A copy of his script for the ill-fated oration was later presented by Lyndon Johnson to Stanley Marcus, head of the department store chain Neiman Marcus, whose daughter was in the expectant audience that day.
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[This] pollution of our information ecosystem might pose an existential crisis for democracy
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