1/17/1922 - 5/8/2012
1960s Legacies: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Nicholas Katzenbach
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, who held influential posts in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and played a prominent, televised role in federal desegregation efforts in the South, has died. He was 90.
Martin Mbugua, a spokesman for Princeton University, said Katzenbach died Tuesday night at his home in Skillman. He did not give a cause.
Katzenbach's eight years in government during the 1960s began with the idealism of Robert Kennedy's Justice Department and...