Tom Wicker was born on June 18, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina, USA as Thomas Grey Wicker. He was a writer and actor, known for Attica (1980), Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy (1992) and News in Perspective (1963). He was married to Pamela Hill and Neva Jewett McLean. He died on November 25, 2011 in Rochester, Vermont, USA.
[Civil Disobedience speech at a teach-in at Harvard University in 1971] We got one President out and perhaps we can do it again.
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[About President Kennedy's murder] No Americans living at that time had ever witnessed anything like that before. That assassin's bullet killed something else, the feeling that if you're exaulted, you're invulnerable.
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[About the police who killed the inmates at Attica] It is now some 30 years later and I can't get over the feeling that they didn't have to do that. If they had just sat there, another two weeks, maybe three then the inmates would have given up.
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[About Nixon] If you can imagine a President of the United States saying in a press conference 'I am not a crook'. You'd never before conceived that the President might be a crook.
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He is survived by his second wife, Pamela Hill Wicker of Rochester, Vermont; his children from his first marriage, a daughter Cameron Wickerl and son, Thomas Grey Wicker Jr.; two stepdaughters, Kayce Freed Jennings and Lisa Freed; and a stepson Christopher Hill.
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He was one of the hostages at the Attica Prison crisis in September 1971.
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He condemned Presidents like Gerald R. Ford for continuing the Vietnam War; President Jimmy Carter for the soaring inflation and Iranian hostage crisis; President Ronald Reagan for the Iran-Contra Scandal; President George H.W. Bush I for the Persian Gulf War and failing in health care and educational needs back home.
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He denounced President Richard M. Nixon for the bombing in Cambodia and the Watergate Scandal that he was put on Nixon's enemies' list.
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He supported President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Congress for the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He criticized the President for the country's involvement in Southeast Asia.
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He wrote for his syndicated column, "In The Nation," from 1966 until 1991.
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In 1957-1958, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1959, he became an associate editor for the Nashville Tennessean Newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1960, he was hired for the New York Times' Washington D.C. Bureau Offices. He covered the 1960 Congress, Kennedy White House, and 1960 political campaigns and presidential trips abroad. He was named Chief of the New York Times Washington Bureau on September 1,1964 and remained until 1968. In 1968, he was appointed associate editor until his retirement in 1972.
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He worked on his high school newspaper before he decided to make a career in journalism. He served the United States Navy during World War II. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1948. After college, spent a decade at several newspapers in North Carolina including Winston-Salem Journal before becoming the Washington D.C. Correspondent.
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Son of a North Carolina railroad freight conductor, Delancey David, and his mother, Esta Cameron Wicker.
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He was the voice behind the famous radio announcement of President Kennedy's death in which he breaks down in the middle of the announcement.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Attica
1980
TV Movie book "A Time to Die"
Bus Stop
1961
TV Series novel "The Judgment" - 1 episode
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The American President
2000
TV Series documentary
Zachary Taylor
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Century: America's Time
1999
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Journalist
Charlie Rose
1996
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Character Above All
1996
TV Movie
Himself - Panelist
Baseball
1994
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself / Various
JACK: The Last Kennedy Film
1993
Himself
Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy
1992
TV Movie documentary
Himself
America Undercover
1988
TV Series documentary
Himself - Narrator
Long Shadows
1987
Documentary
Himself
I.F. Stone's Weekly
1973
Documentary
Narrator
The Dick Cavett Show
1969
TV Series
Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1969
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Firing Line
1967
TV Series
Himself - Guest
News in Perspective
1963
TV Series
Himself - Commentator
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America
2009
TV Movie documentary
Himself - New York Times
JFK II: The Bush Connection
2003
Video documentary
Himself - New York Time Reporter
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1966
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Achievements in Educational Television - Individuals
News in Perspective (1963)
Known for movies
Attica (1980) as Writer
Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy (1992) as Himself
News in Perspective (1963) as Himself - Commentator
$7 Million
