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JFK speechwriter Sorenson dies

November 1, 2010 12:12
Ted Sorenson with President Kennedy

ByJennifer Lipman, Jennifer Lipman

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Theodore Sorensen, John F Kennedy’s speechwriter, has died at the age of 82.

Mr Sorenson, whose mother Annis Chaikin was of Russian Jewish descent, died in New York following a stroke.
He joined the future president’s senatorial staff in 1953, when he was 25 and just out of law school.

He worked with President Kennedy during the 1960 presidential election and was one of the main figures in what came to be known as Camelot.

Mr Sorenson, considered one of the most influential speechwriters in American political history, worked on President Kennedy’s inaugural address and had input in the president’s Pulitzer Prize winning book "Profiles in Courage.”