40 years ago - Boston became a 2 newspaper town

[Kevin Vahey]

The Herald 'helped' Joe Kennedy by giving their support to 'Profiles in
Courage' winning the Pulitzer. Joe in gratitude made some phone calls in
the H-T's favor.

The Herald even supported JFK in both 1958 (Senate) and 1960 (President)
but then with the license in hand considered the debt was paid.

The real problems began in 1961 when Teddy decided to run for Senator (
1962 election ) The Herald started a vicious smear campaign against Teddy
in late 1961 and there were factions in the family that believe that Joe's
stroke in December of 1961 was caused in part at his anger towards the H-T.




On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:02 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

> On 6/18/2012 9:24 AM, Karen McTrotsky wrote:
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>  Missing entirely from present-day accounts is any reference whatever to
>> Herald-Traveler Corp.'s considerable political muscle. We never see
>> mention  in  reviews of the WHDH affair of the owners of H-T Corp. The
>> "Yankee Republican" Boston Herald was owned by the same group of folks who
>> owned United Shoe Machinery Corp of Beverly, a Yankee Republican owned
>> industrial concern with considerable muscle. The other United States
>> Senator at the time was Leverett Saltonstall, Yankee Republican from
>> Beverly Farms. Both Kennedy and Saltonstall needed friends in newspapers
>> and, to a lesser extent, in the new medium of television as neither had
>> won
>> 50 percent of the vote in the elections in the ethnic Democrat vs. Yankee
>> Republican senate races of Lodge-Kennedy in '52 or Saltonstall-Furcolo in
>> 56
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> According to Wikipedia, Saltonstall won 50.5% over Foster Furcolo 49.0% in
> 1954 (not 1956).  In 1952, Kennedy won 51.4% over Henry Cabot Lodge 48.4.
>  That looks like narrow wins, but each won more than 60% of the votes cast.
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> In any case, the accounts I've read indicate that Joe Kennedy did much to
> help the H-T get the TV license, and it was more Tip O'Neill, not the
> Kennedys who helped the Globe and worked to take the license away from the
> Herald.
>
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