NEWS DISSECTOR
Tom Wicker, Dies at 88
November 26, 2011 · 0 Comments
Source: NYTX
Danny Schechter the News Dissector comments on the death of Tom Wicker, New York Times journalist, who passed on November 25, 2011.
See part one of Danny Schechter’s documentary video “Beyond JFK,” featuring Tom Wicker, below.
“Tom Wicker, one of postwar America’s most distinguished journalists, who wrote 20 books, covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for The New York Times and became the paper’s Washington bureau chief and an iconoclastic political columnist for 25 years, died on Friday at his home near Rochester, Vt. He was 85.” Read the Times obituary for Tom, which is also referenced in this video.
Beyond JFK – The Question of Conspiracy part 1… by Dristarg
Danny Schechter is a journalist, author, television producer and an independent filmmaker who also writes and speaks about economic and media issues. Danny Schechter felt he should disclose, that like Tom Wicker, he was Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard.
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