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JFK Aide Pierre Salinger Dies at 79
Pierre Salinger, a journalist and former press secretary to President John F. Kennedy, was also a prominent backer of the theory that the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 was caused by a Navy missile. Salinger, died Saturday at a hospital in southern France where he had undergone surgery to implant a pacemaker, his wife, Nicole Salinger, said Sunday. He was 79.Mrs. Salinger spoke from Le Thon, near Avignon in the Provence region, where the couple moved four years ago to run an inn. She said her husband left the United States because he opposed the presidency of George W. Bush. "He was very upset because he thought Bush was not fit to be president. He said he would leave if Bush became president and he did," Mrs. Salinger said. The cultured and outspoken Salinger rose from the ranks of newspaper journalism to become press secretary to Kennedy and eventually a trusted member of the family's inner circle. He and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis stayed in contact for many years following her husband's assassination, Mrs. Salinger said in a telephone interview. Posted by: tipper 2004-10-17 |
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