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"My friends and I voted for Kennedy because his wife was good-looking. That was it! But I gained respect for him when he admitted he made a mistake with the Bay of Pigs. And then he handled the Cuban Missile Crisis well."

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Here‘s Arthur Bell‘s classic account of the making of a masterpiece

The Village Voice was right there as three men tried to rob a Brooklyn bank on August 22, 1972

After the release of the hit film about his life, the hero cop who exposed corruption in the ranks sent a letter to his hometown paper