Mankiewicz, Frank (16 May 1924–23 Oct. 2014), political advisor, journalist, and broadcast and public relations executive, was born Frank Fabian Mankiewicz in New York City, one of three children of Herman Mankiewicz, a drama critic for The New York Times and The New Yorker...
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Mankiewicz, Frank (16 May 1924–23 Oct. 2014), political advisor, journalist, and broadcast and public relations executive
Jack W. Mitchell
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Ross, Charles Griffith (1885-1950), newspaper correspondent, editor, and presidential press secretary
Bruce J. Evensen
Ross, Charles Griffith (09 November 1885–05 December 1950), newspaper correspondent, editor, and presidential press secretary, was born in Independence, Missouri, the son of James Bruce Ross, a Jackson County marshal and occasional gold prospector, and Ella Thomas. Charlie’s early passion for storytelling was prompted by a maternal grandmother’s tall tales of the Kansas-Missouri border wars over slavery. Ross finished at the top of his high school class, which also included the future president of the United States, ...
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Salinger, Pierre Emil George (1925-2004)
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Pierre Salinger. Gelatin silver print, 1962, by Yousuf Karsh. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
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Salinger, Pierre Emil George (1925-2004), journalist and press secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
Edward A. Goedeken
Salinger, Pierre Emil George (14 June 1925–16 October 2004), journalist and press secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, journalist and press secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, was born in San Francisco, California, the oldest of four boys of Herbert Edgar Salinger, a mining engineer of Jewish descent, and Jehanne Bietry, a French-born journalist who was Catholic. A child prodigy, he could play the piano before he learned to read and performed his first concert at the age of six. He attended the Presidio Open Air School from 1932 to 1937 and then entered Lowell High School, a magnet school in San Francisco, from which he graduated in 1941. That fall he enrolled at San Francisco State College but left a year later to join the navy. As a lieutenant junior grade he served on a submarine chaser in the Pacific and earned navy and marine corps medals for his performance at sea. After the war he entered the University of San Francisco and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in the spring of 1947. The previous January he married the first of four wives, Renee Laboure, with whom he had three children....
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Short, Joseph Hudson, Jr. (1904-1952), journalist and presidential press secretary
Bruce J. Evensen
Short, Joseph Hudson, Jr. (11 February 1904–18 September 1952), journalist and presidential press secretary, was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the son of Joseph Hudson Short, clerk of the U.S. Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, and Irene Elizabeth Jones. Friends remember the “tall Short boy” as quiet and meditative, like his father, and interested in a career in the military. Both of his grandfathers had been Civil War veterans, one a civilian clerk on the staff of General ...
