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JFK nostalgia tour

For anyone interested in another momentous era in American history, attention is turning to John F. Kennedy’s Camelot with as much intensity as the commemorations last week for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Fifty years later, the assassination of America’s 35th president will once again captivate the nation — or so hope museum curators, book publishers, filmmakers, documentary producers, magazine editors and conspiracy theorists. Not content to wait until November, the marketplace is already brimming with all things Kennedy, the start of a “deluge,” as the producer of one coming documentary put it.

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