Penn Kimball
Penn Townsend Kimball II (October 12, 1915 – November 8, 2013) was an American journalist and college professor at Columbia University, most notable for suing the American government in the mid 1980s after his discovery that the FBI and CIA considered him and his wife a security risk.
Education and career
Kimball was one of three siblings, born to a middle-class family in
Rhodes Scholar, earning a master's degree in politics and economics.[3] He served in the Pacific as a Marine
in World War II, becoming a captain.
His journalism career began in New York during the 1940s. During that era, he worked for numerous magazines and newspapers including
Security file and legal case
In 1977, after requesting his file under the
Books
Kimball published several books, including
- The Disconnected (Columbia University Press, 1973), about institutionalized exclusion of the minority poor from the U.S. electoral system.[8]
- The File (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983) about his security file.
- ‘Keep Hope Alive!’: Super Tuesday and Jesse Jackson’s 1988 Campaign for the Presidency (University Press of America, 1991).
- Downsizing the News: Network Cutbacks in the Nation’s Capital (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1994).[11]
References
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- ^ Morrison, Leonard Allison; Sharples, Stephen Paschall (1897). History of the Kimball family in America from 1634 to 1897 and of its ancestors the Kemballs or Kemboldes of England : with an account of the Kembles of Boston, Massachusetts, Vol. II. Damrell & Upham.
- ^ Martha's Vineyard Times. November 9, 2013. Archived from the originalon November 11, 2013.
- ^ a b c Weber, Bruce (November 12, 2013). "Penn Kimball, Journalist Who Sued U.S., Dies at 98". The New York Times.
- ^ ISBN 9780231130905..
- ^ a b c Schudel, Matt (November 9, 2013). "Penn Kimball, journalist and teacher, dies at 98". The Washington Post.
- ^ a b "Journalist and Professor Penn Kimball Was Longtime Chilmark Resident". Vineyard Gazette. November 10, 2013.
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- ^ Powers, Thomas (December 11, 1983). "Ordeal by Hearsay: The File by Penn Kimball". The New York Times.
- PBS. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
- ^ Stepp, Carl Sessions (June 1, 1994), "Downsizing the News: Network Cutbacks in the Nation's Capital", American Journalism Review, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 (subscription required).
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