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Correspondence,

Letters are chiefly about the publication of and reactions To Defend, To Destroy.

Correspondents include Norton editor Evan Thomas, Reston's agent Carol Brandt, University of North Carolina System President William (Bill) Friday, Elizabeth Boatwright Coker, and author and newspaper editor Jonathan Daniels.

Of interest is a 15 May letter from a New York law firm about the laws governing publication of classified and restricted information and the character based on Reston's commanding officer during his Army service.

Also of interest is a 23 September letter from Jonathan Daniels, who writes, "James Reston Jr. has brought a skilled hand and a splendid narrative style to the dilemma of young Americans caught between new activist idealism and the old conventionalities of patriotism and power."

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Correspondence,

Letters are chiefly about reprinting and "remaindering" To Defend, To Destroy, Reston's new marriage, lecturing and speaking engagements, teaching positions in creative writing programs, and amnesty for Vietnam War draft resisters and deserters.

Correspondents include Norton editor Evan Thomas, Reston's agent Carol Brandt, author and UNC Creative Writing Program faculty member Max Steele, University of North Carolina System President William (Bill) Friday, Sally Reston (Reston's mother), author Henry Mayer, and Mike Uhl with the Citizens Commission of Inquiry.

Of interest is a 14 December letter from Uhl outlining John David Herndon's desertion story. "X is a white worker of Appalachian background. He served in Vietnam for 18 months with an elite Airborne unit and was heavily involved in the unit's war-crime policiesHe can no longer tolerate the alienation of refugee life and wants to return to his home--whatever the risks. He hopes, by his action, to put the deserter questi

American journalist and newspaper editor (–)

This article is about James Barrett Reston. For his son, also a journalist and author, see James Reston Jr.

James "Scotty" Barrett Reston (November 3, &#;– December 6, ) was an American journalist whose career spanned the mids to the early s. He was associated for many years with The New York Times.

Early life and education

Reston was born in Clydebank, Scotland, into a poor, devout Scottish Presbyterian family that emigrated to the United States in In September , Reston sailed with his mother and sister to New York City as steerage passengers on board the SS Mobile, and arrived and were inspected at Ellis Island.

The family settled in the Dayton, Ohio area, and Reston graduated from Oakwood High School in Oakwood, Ohio. In In , he was a medalist in the first Ohio High School Golf Championship. He was the Ohio Public Links champion in , and in was a member of the University of Illinois' Big Ten championship team.

While at Illinois, he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity and was a roommate of John C. Evans, a Sigma Pi brother.

Career

After working briefly for the Springfield, Ohio, Daily News, he joined the Associated Press in He moved to the London bureau of The New York Times in , but returned to New York in

In , he took a leave of absence to establish a U.S. Office of War Information in London. In , following the end of World War II, he rejoined The New York Times as a national correspondent in Washington, D.C..

In , he was appointed diplomatic

American serial killer on death row

This article is about the American serial killer. For other people, see Wayne Ford (disambiguation).

Wayne Adam Ford (born December 3, ) is an American serial killer. Ford, a former long-haul truck driver, murdered four women from to He strangled them and dismembered three of his four victims. He turned himself in with a woman's breast in a bag in his coat pocket.

Background

Ford was born in Petaluma, California, the second son of an American father and a German immigrant mother. His parents divorced when he was He dropped out of high school and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served six years before being honorably discharged in

In November , he was hit by a drunk driver, causing a head injury and leaving him in a coma for nine days. According to relatives, his personality drastically changed after the incident.

He had two marriages, both of which ended in divorce. In he forced his first wife, Kelly Pletcher to get an abortion in Napa, California.

Beginning in , he had escalating problems at work with psychological decline, necessitating several hospitalizations. Ford was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

He had a series of scrapes with the law, including allegations of beating and robbing a sex worker in in Garden Grove, California. In he was arrested for animal cruelty, for which he served a brief jail sentence in San Clemente, California.

Victims

Between and , he murdered at least four women. At the time of the murders he lived in a trailer park in Arcata, California working as a long-haul truck driver.

• Kerry Ann Cummings (25) - Killed in Body was discovered on October 17, , north of Eureka, California in the Ryan Slough. Cummings was listed as a Jane Doe until June when a partnership between the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Unit, the California Departmen