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  • Frank Mankiewicz, Press Secretary to Robert F. Kennedy, Dies at 90

    10/24/2014 8:46:21 AM PDT · by Borges · 13 replies
    NYT ^ | 10/24/2014 | ROBERT D. McFADDEN
    Frank Mankiewicz, a writer and Democratic political strategist who was Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s press secretary, directed Senator George S. McGovern’s losing 1972 presidential campaign and for six years was the president of National Public Radio, died Thursday at a hospital in Washington. He was 90. The cause was heart failure, said Adam Clymer, a former New York Times reporter who is the spokesman for the family. Mr. Mankiewicz had been in the hospital’s intensive care unit for more than three weeks receiving treatment for heart and lung problems, Mr. Clymer said. A scion of Hollywood, the son of Herman...
  • Will Ben Mankiewicz Be Allowed to Destroy Turner Classic Movies?

    12/29/2009 3:01:56 PM PST · by Thirteen · 43 replies · 1,598+ views
    bighollywood.breitbart.com ^ | Dec 29th 2009 | John Nolte
    Commenter Other Stories saw what I did this weekend and put it best: Love TMC! But did anyone catch the weekend host Ben Mankiewicz (had to Google to find his name) snide comments regarding “A Face in the Crowd”? If you’re not familiar with the film, it starred Andy Griffith and he portrayed an evil media personality who fools the public by coming across as a likable down to earth kind a fella. Host Mankiewicz openly wondered if the producers had been able to see 50 years into the future and witnessed how people in this country were being manipulated...
  • Are The Top Journalists Insiders Or Outsiders? (talking Cronkite)

    08/01/2009 8:37:53 AM PDT · by bilhosty · 13 replies · 784+ views
    Rasmussen Reports ^ | August 01, 2009 | Larry Sabato
    Something truly astonishing appeared in a Washington Post column on July 25, 2009 (click here to view). It was written by Frank Mankiewicz, former press secretary to Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) and the man who is perhaps most widely remembered for announcing RFK's death in June 1968. Mankiewicz was also the political director of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern's losing 1972 campaign. The column contained a two-fold revelation about the just-deceased Walter Cronkite, the longtime CBS News anchorman. Here are the disclosures, in Mankiewicz' own words: