Thomas Oliphant
Thomas Oliphant is an
American columnist who has written for the
Boston Globe since 1968. Oliphant appeared in the
2004 movie
Going Upriver, in which he recounted his observations of
John Kerry's activities in opposition to the
Vietnam War in 1971.
In March 2005, Oliphant, husband of CBS reporter Susan Spencer, suffered a brain aneurysm. Subsequent to his recovery, according to an article on newsmax.com [
1], in January 2006 Tom Oliphant accepted a buy-out from the New York Times, which owns the Boston Globe where he was political columnist.
* (co-author)
All by Myself: The Unmaking of a Presidential Campaign (1989) ISBN 0871065479
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Praying for Gil Hodges : A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers (2005) ISBN 0312317611
* Oliphant's June 5, 2005, article about his return from a brain aneurysm,
My Journey into Darkness, free on the Boston Globe site. If it has been removed you can also find it at
CommonGround CommonSense.
* To read articles written by Thomas Oliphant when he was at the Boston Globe, one must do a search on the
Boston Globe site and pay for them. The last of more than 80 Oliphant columns archived there was written in December 2005.
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The Kerry I Know
