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  Pierre Salinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salinger was born in San Francisco, California, his father a German Jewish mining engineer and his mother a French journalist whose father was a member of the French National Assembly.
Salinger was furious at the suggestion of delay and leaked the transcript to Hella Pick of the British newspaper, The Guardian, thereby ensuring that ABC would have to run with it that day.
Salinger later became known for his claims in November 1996 that friendly fire from the United States Navy was the cause of the TWA Flight 800 crash, based on what was later seen as an Internet hoax.
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 Pierre Salinger syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is named for Pierre Salinger who was the White House press secretary under President John F. Kennedy and an ABC News journalist from 1978 to 1993.
On November 8 of that year, Salinger announced he had a government document given to him by a French intelligence source stating that friendly fire from the US Navy had been the cause of the crash.
Because Pierre Salinger zealously believed his information was accurate, but was unwilling to publicly expose his sources, some people charged that he believed it was true simply because it was posted on the Internet.
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 pierre salinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Pierre Emil George Salinger (born on June 14, 1925) is a former White House Press Secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and ABC News journalist.
He lent his name to the Pierre Salinger syndrome, the tendency to assume everything written on the Internet is true.
Salinger was appointed as a Democratic United States Senator from California to fill the vacancy due to the July 30, 1964 death of Senator Clair Engle.
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 Blog of Death: Pierre Salinger
Pierre Emil George Salinger, a veteran journalist and former White House spokesman, died on Oct. 16.
Salinger said he possessed government documents that showed the Navy was testing missiles off the coast of New York that day, and claimed the plane was accidentally brought down by friendly fire.
Salinger and his wife moved to France in 2000 to protest George W. Bush's presidency and to run an inn.
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 Pierre Salinger Online Research :: Information about Pierre Salinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Salinger served part of one term as a United States Senate in 1964 and was Campaign manager for Robert F. Kennedy 's 1968 President of the United States campaign.
Salinger was born in San Francisco, California, his father a Germany Jewish mining engineer and his mother a France journalist whose father was a member of the National Assembly of France.
Salinger was furious at the suggestion of delay and leaked the transcript to Hella Pick of the United Kingdom Newspaper, The Guardian, thereby ensuring that ABC would have to run with it that day.
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 9news.com | News | Pierre Salinger, JFK's press secretary, later ABC News reporter, dies at 79   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Salinger said her husband left the United States because he was opposed to the presidency of George W. Bush.
Salinger had said at the time that a government document showed the Navy was testing missiles off the coast of New York and had been told planes would be flying higher than 21,000 feet.
Salinger said her husband suffered from aphasia and was not able to speak, but otherwise was very aware of his surroundings and recognized and enjoyed the company of his friends and family.
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 Pierre Salinger Dies at 79; Press Secretary for JFK, LBJ (washingtonpost.com)
Pierre Emil George Salinger, 79, press secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and chief European correspondent for ABC News, died of a heart attack Oct. 16 at a hospital near his home in Le Thor, France, his wife said.
Salinger described himself as "a reporter for the rest of the press." He was agile at leaking news and suggesting stories.
Salinger was involved in efforts by the Kennedy administration to keep a lid on news that the Soviet Union was installing medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A38928-2004Oct16.html   (865 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Journalist Pierre Salinger dies at 79
Pierre Salinger, the bushy-browed, cigar-chomping journalist who served as press secretary for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and spent more than a decade as ABC News' chief correspondent in Europe, died Saturday.
Salinger also made news — and subjected himself to criticism — in 1996 with his claim that TWA Flight 800 was inadvertently shot down by a Navy missile soon after taking off from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and that the government was conspiring to cover it up.
Salinger, however, was defeated by the Republican nominee, former film actor George Murphy, in the November general election.
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 CNN - Salinger 'totally sure' TWA 800 missile theory is true - Mar. 13, 1997
Salinger said there was, to his knowledge, no audio tape of a U.S. sailor saying a missile from his ship had shot down TWA 800.
Salinger said a presidential commission was established last year to look into similar alleged incidents of military missiles shooting down or threatening civilian aircraft.
In an examination of an early draft of Salinger's report, CNN found it to be littered with errors and misinformation.
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 CNN - FBI interviews Salinger on TWA, discredits his 'friendly fire' document - Nov. 9, 1996
Salinger, appearing live on CNN earlier Saturday, leveled more accusations that Flight 800 was brought down by a U.S. Navy missile and hinted that the federal government has covered up similar information on other air disasters.
Salinger said he met with a man Saturday morning who claimed he was on an Air France flight that took off from New York five minutes after TWA Flight 800.
Salinger, who worked for President John F. Kennedy and was once an ABC News correspondent, also stood by accusations he made earlier in the week from Cannes, France, that were based on documents he said came from a source close to the U.S. government.
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 4Reference || Pierre Salinger syndrome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Pierre Salinger Syndrome refers to the tendency to assume that everything you read on the Internet is true.
Pierre Salinger is a former White House press secretary to President John F. Kennedy and 'ABC News' journalist.
Salinger said the document was dated Aug. 22 and was posted on the Internet at the beginning of September.--Jocelyn Noveck, "Pierre Salinger Claims Navy Missile Shot Down TWA Flight 800", The Associated Press, November 8, 1996
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 Pierre Salinger, Kennedy advisor, later a reporter
Salinger, who also served as press secretary for President Lyndon B Johnson, said Kennedy was a "special man" who surrounded himself with advisers who "believed in each other" and in a common mission.
Salinger had said at the time that a government document showed the Navy was testing missiles off the coast of New York and had been told planes would be flying higher than 6 300 metres.
Mrs Salinger said her husband suffered from aphasia and was not able to speak, but otherwise was very aware of his surroundings and recognised and enjoyed the company of his friends and family.
www.namibian.com.na /2004/october/world/0471E19ABA.html   (1141 words)

  
 Salon | Newsreal
Pierre Salinger and his conspiracy-minded colleagues are stopping investigators from finding out what really happened to TWA Flight 800.
That blast of frustration from the FBI's James Kallstrom was aimed at the motley army of believers, including former JFK press secretary Pierre Salinger, who continue to push the theory that American "friendly fire" blew the plane out the sky, killing all 230 people on board.
As "proof," Salinger showed off a photo from an official radar tape with an "unexplained blip," which he said was the Navy missile.
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 Definition of Pierre Salinger
Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925—October 16, 2004) was a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
Salinger served one term as a U.S. Senator in 1964 and was campaign manager for Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign.
Salinger worked on Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign and was reportedly devastated by his assassination.
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 PIERRE SALINGER - Reality vs Myth
CNN (3/13/97): "Salinger first based his friendly fire claim on a memo Russell wrote and circulated on the Internet." Russell's memo is the document that Salinger's French Intelligence source gave him noted in the previous CNN report.
Salinger's certitude in the friendly fire claim rested with the trust he placed in his long-time friend in the DGSE, but scrambling for some concrete justification other than faith in a friend he relied on the papers his friend had given him a month ago errantly assuming they were government documents.
Salinger's sources, documents, and belief in the friendly fire theory were based on a trusted French Intelligence source and Captain Richard Russell, not on Ian Goddard or his website.
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 Booknotes
SALINGER: Well, she was not excited about my running for president, but I had told her when we first met, I told her all about my mistresses and I never lied to her about that subject.
Salinger, the president wants to speak to you." I must say, I had a little brain thing saying, "Oh, my God, I got a terrible -- I've had a terrible dream." But then I hear this voice saying, "Pierre, this is Lyndon Johnson," and he was the new president.
SALINGER: He was worried about the cigars because he knew that if the media discovered that I had brought those cigars in, there would have been a big story in the front of the press that the White House had done something illegal and brought in something that they had forbidden people to do.
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 icWales - JFK press chief Salinger dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
PIERRE Salinger, who served as President John F Kennedy's press secretary and later had a long career with ABC News, has died at a hospital in southern France.
The cultured and outspoken Salinger rose from the ranks of newspaper journalism to become press secretary to JFK and eventually a trusted member of the family's inner circle.
Salinger said at the time that a government document showed the Navy was testing missiles off the coast of New York and had been told planes would be flying higher than 21,000ft.
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 USATODAY.com - Former Kennedy aide Pierre Salinger dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Salinger died Saturday from heart failure following surgery last week at a hospital in Cavaillon to implant a pacemaker, his wife, Nicole "Poppy" Salinger, told The Associated Press Sunday in a telephone interview.
Salinger, spoke from Le Thon, near Avignon in the Provence region, where the couple moved four years ago to run a bed-and-breakfast inn.
The cultured and outspoken Salinger rose from the ranks of newspaper journalism to become press secretary to John F. Kennedy and eventually a trusted member of the family's inner circle.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-10-16-salinger-obit_x.htm   (1144 words)

  
 Pierre Salinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He is known for his in November 1996 that friendly fire from the United States Navy was the cause of the TWA Flight 800 crash based on what was later as an internet hoax.
He lent his to the Pierre Salinger syndrome the tendency to assume everything written the Internet is true.
He was defeated in his bid a full six-year term in the 1964 He resigned from the Senate on December 31 1964 only three days before his term to expire.
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 MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Pierre Salinger
Pierre was born in San Francisco, one of four brothers.
Pierre's own love affair with the media began while he was still at high school and resumed after a colourful period of war service in the US navy in the Pacific.
Though in many respects Pierre lived a charmed life, he suffered a series of tragedies: a brother and one of his three sons committed suicide; his only daughter died of cancer; his first wife was an alcoholic.
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 Pierre Salinger: Veteran reporter, a Kennedy aide
PARIS -- Pierre Salinger, a veteran print reporter and editor who served as press secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations before becoming a widely known foreign correspondent for ABC News, died Saturday of heart failure after undergoing surgery earlier in the week to implant a pacemaker.
Also, Salinger said her husband left the United States because he was opposed to the presidency of George W. Bush.
Salinger rose from newspaper journalism to become press secretary to President John F. Kennedy and eventually a trusted member of the family's inner circle.
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 Pierre Salinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 KDKA - Pittsburgh's Source for Breaking News, Weather and Sports: Pierre Salinger Dies At 79   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Salinger, 79, died from a heart attack at a hospital in France, the network said.
Salinger made headlines in 1997 when he became a prominent backer of the theory that TWA Flight 800, which crashed off Long Island in 1996 on a flight to Paris, was accidentally brought down by a Navy missile.
Salinger, who also was press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, said Kennedy was a "special man" who surrounded himself with advisers who "believed in each other" and in a common mission.
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