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Required reading: The Kennedy series

Posted at 1:35 PM on February 23, 2009 by Bob Collins (0 Comments)
Filed under: Politics

The Boston Globe is running a series on the life of Ted Kennedy. Its online component should be a warning shot across the bow of the newfangled media that predicts the demise of the newspaper newsroom. People in the business are still kicking.

In the second chapter, there is a compelling segment when Minnesota's Walter Mondale recalls the funeral of Bobby Kennedy at about the 6 minute part of the Chapter 2 video.

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