James J. Kilpatrick
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James Jackson Kilpatrick (November 1, 1920 – August 15, 2010) was an American newspaper journalist, columnist, author, writer and grammarian. During the 1950s and early 1960s he was editor of The Richmond News Leader in Richmond, Virginia and encouraged the Massive Resistance strategy to oppose the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in the Brown v. Board of Education ruling which outlawed racial segregation in public schools. For three decades beginning in the mid-1960s, Kilpatrick wrote a nationally syndicated column "A Conservative View", and sparred for years with liberals Nicholas von Hoffman and later Shana Alexander on the television news program 60 Minutes.[1][2]
James J. Kilpatrick | |
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Born | James Jackson Kilpatrick November 1, 1920 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US |
Died | August 15, 2010(2010-08-15) (aged 89) Washington, D.C., US |
Alma mater | University of Missouri (BJ) |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, columnist, author, writer, grammarian |
Spouses | |
Children | 3 |