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November 28, 2011

Journalist Tom Wicker Dies at 85 
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The legendary journalist Tom Wicker has died at the age of 85. He
covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for New York
Times. Years later he became a vocal critic of the Vietnam War and was
invited by the prisoners at Attica to serve as a mediator during the
1971 prison uprising.



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