courts. >> i want to go to pulitzer prize-winning journalist seymour hersh.n 2004, he broke the story about the abuse and torture prisoners at abu ghraib and in 2010, he revealed u.s. forces are turning out battlefield executions of prisoners in afghanistan. this is seymour hersh speaking during a discussion of the global investigative journalism conference in geneva. >> and the purpose of my story was to take it out of the field and to the white house, where it is not that the president or the secretary of defense mr. rumsfeld or bush or cheney, it is not that they knew what happened in abu ghraib, but that they had allow this kind of activity to happen. i will tell you right now, one of the great tragedies of my country is that esther obama is looking -- mr. obama is looking the other way while equally horrible things are happening to prisoners -- of those we capture in afghanistan. they're being executed in the battlefield. it is unbelievable stuff going on there that doesn't necessarily get reported. things don't change. quick that was pulitzer prize-winn

henry kissinger can write his memoirs, but i also want to read seymour hersh's take on henry kissingeran responsible for the bombing of cambodia. i can learn a lot through kissinger's memoirs, but i want the balance and i still believe that an unauthorized biography gives me a better chance. >> host: knowing what you know about jackie kennedy, john kennedy. if you had known that, would you vote for john kerry for president, again knowing what you know now? >> guest: knowing what i know now and knowing what i know now about richard nixon, yes, i would vote for john f. kennedy. not simply because my last name is kelley. that would not have been the reason. i would vote for john f. kennedy based on the speech he gave in june of 1963 when he talked about civil rights and he introduced civil rights legislation. i think that speech ennobled his presidency. and his presidency was flawed. the cuban missile crisis, the step up in vietnam. but what he said on civil rights to me was a shining moment. he taught about civil rights is a moral right, as something that's clear is the constitution and