James J. Kilpatrick Is Dead

The press corps in the 1960s and 1970s was even worse than it is now.

Nationally syndicated columnist James J. Kilpatrick:

I did not say I was sorry for my former views on racial integration. I said, very carefully, that I was sorry I ever defended the practice of State-sanctioned segregation. There is a world of difference.  Neither did I ‘belatedly come to the conclusion that I was wrong about my former stand on equality of the races.’ As I tried to make clear, I belatedly came to the...