Is the conservative creator of torture-evangelist “24” really the right person to helm a miniseries about the Kennedys? On the basis of a draft of the script, some scholars say “no.” At right is one of those scholars, Theodore C. Sorensen, an adviser to President John F. Kennedy.

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