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Kennedy Men
Wednesday
October 17, 2001
Terrorist
attacks, Osama bin Laden, and the threat of chemical
warfare have cast a shadow of death over America
as dark and frightening as the days of October
1962, when Russian missiles in Cuba were aimed
at the U.S and President Kennedy was trying desperately
to avoid all-out nuclear war.
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Best-selling author Laurence Leamer tells “Extra” he discovered, after years of painstaking research, that JFK was also waging another private battle against prescription drug addiction. He says, “President Kennedy had a serious problem with amphetamines."
Leamer says one of JFK's own doctors feared he was a ticking time bomb. Leamer says, “It was so serious, that Dr. Eugene Cohen wrote the President that you must stop using these amphetamines. That the whole future of the free world is at stake here."
Leamer says in his new book, "The Kennedy Men," that JFK became hooked on a combination of powerful drugs he'd been taking to kill the lingering pain of lifelong illnesses, old football injuries, and war wounds. Leamer says, “He was a sick man and he took these drugs not to have a high, not to go on some amphetamine trip, but to have energy he thought he needed to be the President America needed."
Leamer says he found evidence of JFK's addiction in secret files of personal documents and audiotapes hidden away by the president's secretary. Leamer says that despite the drugs, JFK emerged from the 13-day Cuban missile crisis a hero. He says, “He acted magnificently. He saved our country from World War III."
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