Word: kilduff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble was, reporters had already been given advance texts of the speech, and were starting to write their stories when White House Press Aide Malcolm Kilduff, traveling on the newsmen's plane, ordered that no mention of the deleted paragraphs should be made. Intimating that the objectionable sections had been put in by White House speech-writers unbeknownst to Lyndon, Kilduff ordered: "No reference-repeat, no reference-will be made to that part which has been deleted...
...happened, every newsman present knew that L.B.J. likes to give the impression that he is the original author of all of his speeches. A reporter coyly asked how a speechwriter (nonexistent) could possibly put anything into a speech that the President himself had written. Kilduff, painted into a corner by L.B.J.'s little fiction, could only smile ruefully and say to the reporter: "You son of a bitch...
...Roman Catholic priests went swiftly into the emergency room. A policeman came out. "How is he?" a reporter asked. "He's dead," came the reply. Assistant Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff appeared. To a deluge of questions, he screamed, "I can't say, I just...
Burnished Bronze. Lyndon Johnson, guarded by contingents of agents, was hurried away from the hospital to the airport. Press Aide Kilduff came out at 1:36. His eyes red-rimmed, his voice barely controlled, he said: "President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1 p.m. central standard time here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound in the brain. I have no other details of the assassination...