Thomas Oliphant
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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 a February 2006 article in Boston Magazine [1], Oliphant accepted a retirement buyout package from the New York Times Company, which owns the Boston Globe.
Mr. Oliphant is a frequent guest on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS, the last appearance being on Friday September 8, 2006. Oliphant is also a regular guest on The Al Franken Show, where he also appeared as a guest host in August of 2006.[2]
[edit] Books
- (co-author) All by Myself: The Unmaking of a Presidential Campaign (1989) ISBN 0-87106-547-9
- Praying for Gil Hodges : A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers (2005) ISBN 0-312-31761-1
[edit] External links
- 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.
