The brick-and-flint building has a 17ft vestibule, a 36ft chapel, a vestry and a 12ft kitchen. It will be sold by the Methodist Church subject to certain covenants. Agents Henry Adams & Partners report that the asking price is pounds 80,000 (01243 533377).Church House in Hepworth, Suffolk, was formerly a Methodist chapel with a cottage on each side All three were converted into a single home in 1974. The fittings include pine linenfold-panelled doors and a wrought- iron staircase in the double-height drawing-room.
The house has four bedrooms and a box room, and the gardens back on to farmland Agents Bedfords are asking pounds 145,000 (01284 769999).. The Dark Side of Camelot
by Seymour Hersh
HarperCollins, pounds 8.99Well, folks, this is it. You have probably read about Jack Kennedy’s womanising, the lies about his health, his enlisting of the Chicago mob to steal the 1960 election and assassinate Fidel Castro, the evil machinations of scheming father Joe and enforcer brother Bobby. But never before all in one book, and never in such painstaking detail.”John Kennedy’s policies and life contained many superb moments”, Seymour Hersh writes in his preface You will find not one of them here The title is an understatement. This is the high-water mark of revisionist Kennedy historiography; an unrelenting and unrelieved effort to find fault, a photographic negative of a book in which the tanned and smiling face comes out black and scowling, where the sober dress of office appears as the white suit of a mafia don.Take the Cuban missile crisis, supposedly Kennedy’s finest hour How gullible we have been. The President, it transpires, ignored CIA warnings months earlier that Khrushchev was installing missiles on the island.
When he realised what was happening, he deliberately went to the very brink of nuclear war to “cut off Khrushchev’s balls”. Privately, the Kennedy brothers agreed to withdraw US Jupiter missiles from Turkey, but the concession, says Hersh, was kept secret to preserve Bobby Kennedy’s tough-guy image for a later Presidential run.But the Camelot myth endures. Most of what Hersh recounts – JFK’s annulled first marriage, the fornicating, the illnesses, the dirty tricks, the bare-knuckle politics of the Kennedy clan – has appeared in one form or other. Yet year after year, in poll after poll, Americans continue to rate JFK alongside Truman, Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt as a “nearly great” President, bettered only by the Big Three of Washington, Lincoln and FDR.