Joseph Alsop

Journalist

Birthday October 10, 1910

Birth Sign Libra

Birthplace Connecticut

DEATH DATE Aug 28, 1989 (78)

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About

Political columnist for much of the middle part of the 20th century.

Before Fame

After graduating from Harvard University, he joined the New York Herald Tribune, gaining prominence for his journalism during the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in 1934.

Trivia

A lover of controversy, he strongly defended the Vietnam war effort in his opinion columns and supported the view that the U.S. faced a missile gap with the Soviet Union.

Family Life

He married Susan Mary Jay Patten, the widow of his close friend.

Associated With

The KGB photographed him with another man and revealed that he was gay. Gore Vidal based his gay journalist protagonist from the novel Washington D.C. on him.