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Bulletin supporter, nuclear historian Priscilla Johnson McMillan dies at 92 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists


Bulletin supporter, nuclear historian Priscilla Johnson McMillan dies at 92
Priscilla Johnson McMillan, screenshot from Atomic Heritage Foundation video.
Priscilla Johnson McMillan, noted historian of the nuclear age and supporter of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, died July 7 at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 92.
“Priscilla was generous with her time and intelligence. She was astonishingly knowledgeable about Russia as it emerged from the Cold War and equally modest. She will be greatly missed,” said Kennette Benedict, a senior advisor to the Bulletin and former executive director and publisher for the organization.
McMillan briefly worked on Capitol Hill for Sen. John F. Kennedy before embarking on a reporting and writing career. She was known for her expertise on the Cold War and nuclear policy. Her articles for the Bulletin included an obituary on physicist and Manhattan Project member Edward Teller. ....

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Priscilla Johnson McMillan, historian who knew both JFK and Oswald, dies at 92


Priscilla Johnson McMillan, historian who knew both JFK and Oswald, dies at 92
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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 journalism and moved to Moscow, where she drew on her fluency in Russian to file stories for the North American Newspaper Alliance. In November 1959, a friend at the U.S. Embassy mentioned that “a boy named Oswald” was in town trying to defect. He was staying at her hotel, the Metropol, where she spent five hours interviewing him over tea. ....

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