The Kennedy Report: Mostly Plaudits

Daryl Cagle has his devoted section of Kennedy cartoons up, and it's worth a look if, like me, you're interested in how editorial cartoonists process specific events. I suggested yesterday that Kennedy pose a specific problem in that 1) there's a dichotomy between his Senatorial accomplishments and the incident by which he's best known, Chappaquiddick, 2) it's hard to put into cartoon terms a lifetime of legislative accomplishment and advocacy, 3) you also have his death as the end of that Kennedy generation.

It looks like most of them have remained soft and laudatory, several using a lion image that is either generic ("lion in winter"/"lion of the senate") or is a specific Ted Kennedy appellation with which I'm unfamiliar. I think Steve Greenberg communicated the same idea as the symbols much more effectively with his cartoon. Only one in the group brought up Chappaquiddick specifically. One cartoonist actually did use the Kennedy brothers playing football idea. I also liked Pat Oliphant's, which was odd and sad.
 
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