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The Bocchae , the “Missing Prince,” and Oliver Stone's Presidential Films

2000; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 28; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01956050009602819

1930-6458

Albert Auster,

Cinema and Media Studies

Abstract In spring 1947, two first-term congressmen were invited by a local civic group in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, to debate the Taft-Hartley law. This was the first meeting of two politicians irrevocably linked in American history–John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. These two men, later the thirty-fifth and the thirty-seventh presidents, respectively, were subsequently bound by many other chords of memory and emotion and, even after their deaths, by two separate yet complementary myths–the first originated by Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, which would forever link the one thousand days of John F. Kennedy's assassination-shortened presidency with the legendary Camelot; the other, initiated by Senator Robert Dole at Richard Nixon's funeral in 1994, proclaiming the last half of the twentieth century the “Age of Nixon.” Additional informationNotes on contributorsAlbert Auster ALBERT AUSTER teaches in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is working on a historical study of Edward R. Murrow and his colleagues.