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...Jackson (he won a second Pulitzer, in 1966, for his participant's history of the Kennedy Administration, A Thousand Days). Kept out of the draft by poor eyesight, he worked for the Office of War Information, eventually returning to London for the Research and Analysis branch of the oss. Schlesinger politely rejects the Tom Brokaw idea of "the greatest generation": "Like all wars, our war was accompanied by atrocity and sadism, by stupidities and lies, pomposity and chickens...
...Jackson" (he won a second Pulitzer, in 1966, for his participant's history of the Kennedy administration, "A Thousand Days"). Kept out of the draft by poor eyesight, he worked for the Office of War Information, eventually returning to London for the Research and Analysis branch of the OSS. Schlesinger politely rejects the Tom Brokaw idea of "the greatest generation": "Like all wars, our war was accompanied by atrocity and sadism, by stupidities and lies, pomposity and chickens...
Murray, a former colonel in the U.S. Army and an agent for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), made his mark on the government during World War II before returning to Harvard to continue his work as a professor...
During his time at the OSS, according to his former colleagues, Murray was obsessed with mind control and used LSD, among other drugs, attempting to determine how to brainwash subjects. Murray presented his findings after taking LSD at an international conference in Copenhagen...
...some believe that Murray's Harvard studies--which, as Neissuler recalled, "never seemed to have any particular application"--were a continuation of his work at the OSS...