McMahon Sticks With JFK Ad, Over Family Protests

Linda McMahon's U.S. Senate campaign Wednesday refused a request by Ted Kennedy Jr. to stop using 47-year-old footage of John F. Kennedy in a web ad that the late president's nephew says is "dishonest."

Rather than remove the ad, the McMahon campaign may give it wider exposure.

"It's on YouTube now. We may well put it in TV" advertising, said Ed Patru, the communication director for McMahon, a Republican trying to succeed a close friend of the Kennedys, retiring Democrat Christopher J. Dodd.

Kennedy, the son of Sen. Ted Kennedy and the nephew of the assassinated president, said McMahon took comments his uncle made supporting across-the-board tax cuts to avoid a recession in 1963 out of context.

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