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Priscilla Johnson McMillan, historian who knew both JFK and Oswald, dies at 92 Harrison Smith Just out of graduate school in 1953, Priscilla Johnson McMillan joined the Senate staff of John F. Kennedy, then a newly elected Democrat from Massachusetts. He was “mesmerizing,” she later said; while she worked only briefly on Capitol Hill, she visited him in the hospital when he underwent spinal surgeries, and posed as one of his sisters to get past a line of nurses and bring newspapers to his bedside. Mrs. McMillan, who was then known as Priscilla Johnson, later went into...

Is the United States a force for democracy? From China in the 1940s to Guatemala today, William Blum presents a comprehensive study of American covert and overt interference, by one means or another, in the internal affairs of other countries. Each chapter of the book covers a year in which the author takes one particular country case and tells the story - and each case throws light on particular US tactics of intervention. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Review: 'Far and away the best book on the topic.' - Noam Chomsky 'A valuable reference for anyone interested in th...

Franks died at the family farm in Hopewell Junction, New York, after a long battle with cancer, her family said.

Lucinda Franks, Pulitzer-winning journalist and author, dies at 74 Harrison Smith When Lucinda Franks started her journalism career in 1968, she was known simply as a “coffee girl,” charged with ensuring that the reporters in United Press International’s London newsroom — nearly all of them men — were adequately caffeinated. Impressing editors with stories she wrote on her own time, she was assigned to cover beauty contests and dog shows. But Ms. Franks had far greater ambitions. An American expatriate and self-described hippie, she went to Belfast one weekend t...

Former UPI reporter, Pulitzer winner Lucinda Franks dies at 74 By (0) Lucinda Franks, a former UPI reporter who won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971, died Wednesday at the age of 74. File Photo courtesy of Lucinda Franks May 6 (UPI) -- Former United Press International journalist Lucinda Franks, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, has died in New York, her family announced Thursday. She was 74. Her family told The New York Times that the cause of her death Wednesday was cancer. A resident of Manhattan, Franks spent her final months at her late hu...