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New York Times columnist Tom Wicker dies

Friday, November 25, 2011

Tom Wicker, NF ’58, a political columnist for The New York Times for 25 years, died Nov. 25 at the age of 85 at his home near Rochester, Vermont. The only Times reporter riding in the presidential motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Wicker covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He was named chief of the Times Washington bureau the following year and started writing a political column in 1966. Read more »

Class of 1958

First row (from left): Juan Saez, Hiroshi Ishihara, Mary Handy, Louis Lyons (Curator), Piyal Wickramasinghe, David Lawson.

Second row: John Armstrong, John Lindsay, Dean Brelis, Wesley Sullivan, Thomas Wicker, Peter Kumpa, Stanley Karnow, John Pearace, William F. McIlwain Jr.

Not pictured: John Fentress, John Marshall.