Warren Rogers

Warren Joseph Rogers Jr. (May 6, 1922 – August 31, 2003) was a political reporter and an author. Born in

During

In 1956, during the Adlai Stevenson campaign, Rogers first met Robert F. Kennedy, who was traveling with the press to prepare for his brother's 1960 presidential campaign. Despite the frequent arguments that they had with one another, Rogers and Kennedy became good friends as they sat on buses on Stevenson's campaign trail.

Rogers joined the Washington bureau of the

.

Rogers became bureau chief for the

Kennedy's assassination on June 5, 1968, and even helped subdue the gunman, Sirhan Sirhan

. In 1993, Rogers published a book called When I Think of Bobby: A Personal Memoir of the Kennedy Years (see below).

Warren Rogers died on August 31, 2003, from a perforated

ulcer. He was 81 at the time of his death

.

Bibliography

• ISBN 0-393-01499-1) by Paul Watson
  as told to Warren Rogers
• When I Think of Bobby: A Personal Memoir of the Kennedy Years (1993;
  ISBN 0-06-017042-5
  )

References

Sources

• Eyewitness to History
• Blog of Death (Obituary)
• Warren Rogers Dies, Former NPC President (photo)

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