As you are no doubt aware, the film Citizen Kane is a loosely based, “Hollywoodized,” and very unflattering portrait of the life and life choices of publisher William Randolph Hearst. Even though full of myth and inconsistency, no more than 70 years after its release, it is unfortunately seen by many as definitive documentary fact. […]
Mary J. Kocher
Hearst Castle guide (retired), Riverside

