Speaking Of Porn...

[WillyT]

I was wondering if I could find this though Google... read about it years ago.

From Daily Beast going though the treasure trove of buying up Newsweek...

Newsweek distinguished itself with spirited coverage of the civil-rights movement in the 1960s, led by reporter Karl Fleming. Based in Atlanta, Fleming interviewed Martin Luther King Jr. numerous times (he reported that King was always running late). Fleming later told interviewer Leslie Jack that he was followed during his Southern reporting and that his phones were sometimes tapped. At night, he always took a room in the well-lit front section of a motel. “We didn’t stay in the back where somebody could come and drag us out in the middle of the night,” Fleming said.

Was there a reporter and a subject who became buddies like Newsweek’s Ben Bradlee and John F. Kennedy? So close was their friendship that during one stop on the 1960 presidential campaign, the two men and their wives took in a porno movie together. “They both knew that each was capable of using the other,” David Remnick once wrote, “and yet both enjoyed the duet.” Kennedy once whispered a scoop to Bradlee at a White House party: U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers had been freed in a prisoner swap with the Soviets.

Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-05-05/newsweeks-greatest-hits/#

Y'all gotta remember that the advent of "The Pill" had generated a sexual revolution. And all sorts of things fell out of that revolution... pornography being one of them.

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[LetTimmySmoke]

1. Porn has been around for a long time.

It's just that it's more out in the open now. Mass communication means fewer social fictions.

[WillyT]

2. The 'More Out In The Open' Was A Result Of The Revolution

:shrug:

:hi:

[LetTimmySmoke]

4. Yes.

[originalpckelly]

3. Fucking Ben Bradlee?

:rofl:

[WillyT]

6. Yup...

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:hi:

[PufPuf23]

5. An American Affair about Mary Pinchot Meyers

and JFK is a good movie, however accurate.

She was supposedly a JFK mistress and the ex-wife of the CIA's Cord Meyers.

Mary died suspiciously and at a young age.

[Beam Me Up]

7. the movie is a good time capsule of the era

even if it isn't completely factual. it is fiction after all. however, as an artist/painter, i must say the main character's work was a bit ahead of its time! still, a good movie worth the watch and available streaming from netflix, iirc.

typo