DEATH : Journalist Victor Lasky Dies, 72
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WASHINGTON — Victor Lasky, a journalist, author and constant critic of communism who wrote controversial books about President John F. Kennedy and the Watergate scandal, died today of cancer at the age of 72.
Lasky became known as an expert on communism after World War II while working at the New York World-Telegram. It was there that he assisted Frederick Woltman in writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning series on communist infiltration of U.S. institutions. He also covered the Alger Hiss spy trial and co-wrote a best-seller about the case, “Seeds of Treason.”
He was perhaps best known as author of the controversial 1963 book “J.F.K., The Man and the Myth”, an irreverent expose of the career of Kennedy.
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