MONTPELIER, Vt. - Tom Wicker, the former New York Times political reporter and columnist whose career soared following his acclaimed coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died ...

Thomas Carey Wicker Jr., whose legal career included 26 years as a judge in two courts, died Wednesday at his Metairie home. He was 97. A lifelong resident of the New Orleans area, Wicker had a ...

In the early 1970s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation considered it pertinent biographical information that The New York Times’ Tom Wicker suffered from “mental halitosis.” Since this is not, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MONTPELIER, Vt. — Tom Wicker, the former New York Times political reporter and columnist whose career soared after his acclaimed coverage of the ...

To reporters and journalism professors, Wicker's legacy is a vast and varied one. But to the American people, indeed to the world, he will forever be known for his work over a four-day stretch in ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. - On Nov. 22, 1963, Tom Wicker was in the first press bus following John F. Kennedy’s motorcade when the president was assassinated. Wicker, The New York Times’ White House ...

Tom Wicker was a reporter, Washington correspondent and political columnist for the New York Times from 1960 until his retirement in 1991. A reader knowing nothing of the 1990s might well come away ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Tom Wicker, the former New York Times political reporter and columnist whose career soared after his acclaimed coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died Friday ...

It was a ragtag group that put out the first issue of the Independent in April 1983. Our average age was 26. We owned a couple sticks of furniture, a broken-down typesetting machine and two of those ...