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...Newspaper Editor James Kilpatrick on the Poor People's March: "All the visible 'poor' at Resurrection City appear remarkably well-fed. Some are downright fat. Most are young, ablebodied. Every man jack of them could find a job in Washington-carrying a hod, if nothing else. But work? Take jobs? Earn a living? Not this gang...
...strange man," noted Columnist James J. Kilpatrick, longtime editor of the Richmond News Leader, "the hardest of all the Negro leaders or a reporter to get to know. It was possible to joke with Thurgood Marshall, philosophize with Roy Wilkins, reminisce with James Farmer, but King remained an impenetrable figure. His faintly Oriental face was a calm mask for the tensions that surged unceasingly within him. Yet he was the bravest man I ever knew in public life. During the terrible days that followed upon the school desegregation ruling, no white Southerner ever matched a fraction of his courage...
...that remained was to try out the new rules. An opportunity arose at a White House press conference. After discussing the President's views on the Common Market, Negotiator Bill Roth announced that the session was for "background only." Washington Post Reporter Carroll Kilpatrick asked why. "It's background information," said Press Secretary George Christian. "I'm sorry," Timesman Max Frankel broke in, "but if you're going to give me information on that basis, I'm authorized by my editors to say that the White House has no comment on this." So threatened, Roth...
...paper's columnists, whom Guggenheim has assembled, also embrace a variety of political views. James Kilpatrick is an engaging conservative. On the liberal side are Atlanta Constitution Publisher Ralph McGill and Clayton Fritchey, the former delegate...
...noted Kilpatrick in a News Leader editorial, "we have detected encouraging signs that Virginia was emerging from peckerwood provincialism and ingrown 'morality' "-phrases which the late H. L. Mencken used ceaselessly to describe rural America. But after the school board's action, said Kilpatrick, "Mencken's old indictment stands reconfirmed...