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In June 1997, at the age of 64, Lukas took his own life, just three months before the release of his last work, “Big Trouble,” which is about the turn-of-the-century class war between Idaho’s mining companies and its...
Lukas, whose father was a member of the American Jewish Committee and an outspoken critic of McCarthy, arrived on campus as a freshman with the senator’s home phone number in his pocket.
Though several Crimson editors at the time were deeply engaged in questions of academic freedom, few became as entrenched as J. Anthony Lukas ’55.
Lukas spoke regularly with McCarthy, who often began their interviews saying, “Now, Tony, how are you? How are all those pinkos up at Harvard?”
Lukas, who later became associate managing editor, arranged conference calls so that The Crimson’s top editors could also speak with McCarthy.