Dead Kennedys initiated by his former Dead Kennedys band mates over songwriting credits and unpaid royalties. In 2001, the band reformed without Biafra; various singers have since been recruited for vocal duties. Dead Kennedys formed in June 1978 in San Francisco, California, when East Bay Ray (Raymond Pepperell) advertised for bandmates in the newspaper "The Recycler", after seeing a ska-punk show at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco. The original band lineup consisted of Jello Biafra (Eric Reed Boucher) on vocals, East Bay Ray on guitar, Klaus Flouride (Geoffrey Lyall) on bass, 6025 (Carlos Cadona) on rhythm guitar and Ted (Bruce Slesinger) on
The Kennedys (miniseries) website stopkennedysmears.com was registered by filmmaker Robert Greenwald as part of the critical response to "The Kennedys". On February 24, 2010 Dave Itzkoff of "The New York Times" reported that historian David Talbot, whose recent book had been used as source material for the miniseries, had joined those preemptively criticizing "The Kennedys". Ted Sorensen (1928-2010), former presidential aide and speech writer for 35th President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, served 1961-1963), described the script as a "character assassination". At the time of all of this criticism, the miniseries had not yet even been cast. In an interview published in "The Los