When It Happened
The legendary Tom Wicker, who “brought a hard-hitting Southern liberal/civil libertarian’s perspective to his column, ‘In the Nation’, which appeared on the N.Y. Times editorial page and then on the Op-Ed Page two or three times a week from 1966 until his retirement in 1991,” died today at age 85. His obit was authored by Robert McFadden.
“On Nov. 22, 1963, Mr. Wicker, a brilliant but relatively unknown White House correspondent who had worked at four smaller papers, written several novels under a pen name and, at 37, had established himself as a workhorse of The Times‘s Washington bureau, was riding in the presidential motorcade as it wound through downtown Dallas, the lone Times reporter on a routine political trip to Texas.
“The searing images of that day — the rifleman’s shots cracking across Dealey Plaza, the wounded president lurching forward in the open limousine, the blur of speed to Parkland Memorial Hospital and the nation’s anguish as the doctors gave way to the priests and a new era — were dictated by Mr. Wicker from a phone booth in stark, detailed prose drawn from notes scribbled on a White House itinerary sheet. It filled two front-page columns and the entire second page, and vaulted the writer to journalistic prominence overnight.”
.just finished reading the recently released, epic time-travel stephen king novel, 11/22/63, and can attest that it’s one of his best…the monsters are human, the threats are understandable and it will make a great movie (in the right hands)….even the nytimes (they seldom review king) had to bend over on this one…wicker’s death will, no doubt, be promoted to the nth by scribner for the benefit of the book…
Haven’t read it yet. King believes Oswald acted alone; he gave plenty of interviews when the book came out. So I think the book would be slanted that way, is it, scooterzz?
“King believes Oswald acted alone”
You don’t?
I learned everything I needed to know about the Kennedy assassination from James Ellroy.
@Ray
You don’t believe it was 3 shooters set up by Guatemalan rebels in order to end the space program so Americans wouldn’t find out about the aliens on the moon set to Earth to destroy the human race?
Speaking of conspiracies, why has the previous Spielberg post vanish? Did the discussion get really ugly or something?
@Ray
No, of course not.
Scooterz: Demme is doing it.
This was the first King I’d read in years, and while it is a reasonably compelling read, it’s simply too long. Is this novel ‘epic’ as has been described? No, not precisely, unless epic = overlong and a touch repetitive, though that could be a possibly conscious underscoring of theme at work.
Most of his books go on for too long. Usually it’s a good story but it gets drowned in a sea of words. Don’t they have editors at his publisher?
may be not.
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