Six Degrees of Kenneth Bacon

By By Harriet Barovick, Tam Gray, Sandra Jamison, Daniel Levy, Lina Lofaro, David Spitz, Flora Tartakovsky and Chris Taylor

The Pentagon's bespoken spokesman Ken Bacon is getting to be the harbinger of a lot of bad news about the Kosovo situation. And in fact, using the guidelines of the Kevin Bacon game, whereby any actor can be traced to Kevin in six steps, a lot of the bad stuff that has happened to America, or anywhere, can be traced to our bow-tied friend. Then again, he can even be traced back to Kev himself.

1 While at the Wall Street Journal Bacon interviewed Alan Greenspan 2 Greenspan played alongside Leonard Garment in the Henry Jerome band 3 Garment was a lawyer for Richard Nixon 4 Nixon spawned Watergate

1 Bacon is a trustee of the Folger Shakespeare Library 2 Shakespeare wrote the play Julius Caesar 3 Caesar ruled Rome 4 Rome put Pontius Pilate in charge of Israel 5 Pontius Pilate had Christ crucified

1 Bacon interviewed Lloyd Bentsen 2 Bentsen is a descendant of Henry Wilson 3 Wilson was Vice President to Ulysses S. Grant 4 Grant was head of the Union Army during the Civil War 1 Bacon hired Monica Lewinsky as an aide 2 Lewinsky grew up in Beverly Hills with Tori Spelling 3 Spelling appeared with Neve Campbell in Scream 2 4 Campbell was in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon 1 Bacon covered Jimmy Carter's Defense Department 2 Carter was advised by Clark Clifford 3 Clifford was an adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt 4 F.D.R. was a cousin of Teddy Roosevelt 5 Roosevelt was a lieut. colonel in the Spanish American War