Claud Cockburn
British journalist
Francis Claud Cockburn was a British journalist. His saying "believe nothing until it has been officially denied" is widely quoted in journalistic studies, but he did not claim credit for originating it. He was the second cousin, once removed, of... Wikipedia
Born: April 12, 1904, Beijing, China
Died: December 15, 1981 (age 77 years), Cork, Ireland
Children: Andrew Cockburn, Sarah Caudwell, Alexander Cockburn, and more
Parents: Henry Cockburn and Elizabeth Gordon Stevenson
Spouse: Patricia Cockburn (m. 1940), Jean Ross, and Hope Hale Davis
Grandchildren: Olivia Wilde, Stephanie Flanders, Laura Flanders, and more
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Cockburn was "a leading British Communist Party member", and by the 1940s, he was reputed to be a prominent figure in "the Comintern in Western Europe".
Claud Cockburn was a noted British radical journalist. He was born in Peking, China, in 1904, and was the scion of an aristocratic family; one of his ancestors ...
Claud Cockburn, the former Times reporter, editor of The Week, and Daily Worker correspondent (under the name of Frank Pitcairn) who had been one of the first ...
Dec 16, 1981 · Claud Cockburn, a British journalist and social critic whose lively style made him something of a cult figure on the British political left, ...
Claud Cockburn(1904-1981) ... Educated at Universities of Oxford, Budapest & Berlin. Became New York & Washington correspondent for The Times newspaper in 1929.
On I, Claud: the Autobiography of Claud Cockburn - CounterPunch.org
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Apr 9, 2021 · Claud Cockburn —father of Alexander, Andrew, and Patrick, three brilliant journalists— was the original model. In 1967 his three volumes of ...
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The memoirs of British radical journalist Claud Cockburn are sardonic, hilarious, and filled with rich historical detail. They tell the story of an ...
Claud Cockburn. On Fortune's Fringe. The simple story of an American magazine dedicated to the hymning of capitalism which hires a left-wing British ...
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Books · A Discord of Trumpets: An Autobiography. Quick look · Cockburn in Spain: Dispatches from the Spanish Civil War. Quick look · The devil's decade.
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Catalogue description Francis Claud COCKBURN, alias Frank PITCAIRN: British. In 1933 COCKBURN, a former... · Ordering and viewing options · Image viewer · Add a ...