found: New York times WWW site, Nov. 28, 2011 (in obituary published Nov. 25: Tom Wicker; b. Thomas Grey Wicker, June 18, 1926, Hamlet, N.C.; d. Friday [Nov. 25, 2011], near Rochester, Vt., aged 85; one of postwar America's most distinguished journalists, who wrote 20 books, covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for The New York times, and became the paper's Washington bureau chief and an iconoclastic political columnist for 25 years; his novels ranged from potboilers under the pen name Paul Connolly to murder mysteries and political thrillers)
Wicker, Tom
