The Kennedys have a way of quashing anything or anyone—a book, a miniseries, an interview—that contradicts their golden image. They typically do this through power or payoffs. Caroline Kennedy and Maria Shriver personally lobbied the History Channel to kill The Kennedys, a 2011 miniseries that one family loyalist called “vindictive” and “malicious” in the New York Times, and were successful.
