Kennett Love

Kennett Farrar Potter Love (August 17, 1924 – May 13, 2013) was an American journalist for The New York Times.

Kennett Love
Born(1924-08-17)August 17, 1924
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
DiedMay 13, 2013(2013-05-13) (aged 88)
Southampton, New York, U.S.
Alma materColumbia University
OccupationJournalist
Spouse(s)
Marie Felicite Pratt
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(m. 1946⁠–⁠2002)​

Blair Seagram (partner)
Children4,[1] including Suzanna Love

Early life

Love was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 17, 1924, to Mary Chauncey (née Potter) Love and John Allan Love, founder of Prudential Savings of St. Louis.[2][3] His siblings are John, Cynthia, Nathalie, Mary, and Deborah.

He attended Princeton University, receiving an Associate in Arts degree,[4] before serving (1943-1946)[5] as a pilot in the Navy Air Corps during World War II.[3]

In 1946, he married Marie Felicite Pratt (1926–2002),[3] a descendant of Charles Pratt, Pratt Institute founder,[6] with whom he had two daughters, Mary and Suzanna, and two sons, John and Nicholas.[3]

Love received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College in 1948.[3][5]

Career

In 1948, after finishing college, Love began working as a reporter for The Hudson-Dispatch, a newspaper in Union City, New Jersey before joining The New York Times in 1948,[7] working in the morgue before becoming a newspaper reporter in 1950.[3]

As a foreign correspondent, his assignments included coverage of activities in the Middle East, East Africa, West Africa and Europe.[5]

In 1953, Love wrote about the CIA-orchestrated plot to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected prime minister.[8][9][10][7] Love and a reporter for The Associated Press wrote about the decrees signed by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi that called for Fazlollah Zahedi to replace Mohammad Mosaddegh.[11] The release of the decrees, which helped legitimize the coup, was engineered by the CIA.[12][13][14][15]

In 1954, when he was based in Cairo,[16] Love wrote front-page articles about the discovery of a 50-foot boat that had been intended to convey the spirit of the pharaoh Cheops to the underworld.[3]

In 1962, Love left The New York Times for the first national monthly news magazine, USA * 1: Monthly News & Current History, its editors included Lewis H. Lapham and Robert K. Massie.[7][17][18][19][20][21][22]

Between 1963 and 1964, Love served as a Peace Corps Planner-Evaluator in Ethiopia, Morocco, Tunisia and in training centers in the United States.[5][23]

Between 1964 and 1968, Love was an associate professor at Princeton University's School of Oriental Studies.[5]

Between 1971 and 1973, Love was a professor of journalism at the American University in Cairo, and served as a Cairo correspondent for ABC News.[5] Love was a correspondent and contributor for broadcaster CBS.[7]

In 1974 Love began a career as a free-lance writer, editor and photographer.[5]

In 1980, someone found a copy of Love’s 1960 term paper, for a professor at Princeton, in the sealed archives of Allen Dulles, and leaked it to CounterSpy, who accused Love of having been a CIA agent. He denied it.[24]

In 1984, Love denied helping the CIA with the 1953 Iran coup, while working for The New York Times, suing Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Kwitny,[25][26][27][28][29][30] until, at least, 1993.[31][32][33][34][35][36]

Love was a contributor to the publications New York Times Magazine, Washington Monthly, and Middle East Journal, and others.[7]

Love began research and interviews for a history of the 1953 coup in Iran.[5]

Bibliography
  • Royalists Oust Mossadegh; Army Seizes Helm, The New York Times, August 20, 1953[37][38][11]
  • U.S. Envoy Lauds Egyptian Regime, The New York Times, December 6, 1954
  • Jordan Pressure Denied By Britain, The New York Times, Jan 10, 1956[39]
  • The American Role in the Pahlevi Restoration: On 19 August 1953, 1960.
(unpublished manuscript submitted as a term paper (coursework) to a Princeton University professor while the Council on Foreign Relations Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow)[40]
  • Suez: The Twice-Fought War, a History. (New York and Toronto: McGrawHill, 1969) ISBN 007038780X [47][48][49][50]

Awards

Personal life

Love's sister, Deborah, was the wife of Peter Matthiessen[55][56]

In 1946, Love married Marie Felicite Pratt, later, his partner was Blair Seagram.[7] Love was a descendant of Dr. Bernard Gaines Farrar (1784-1849).[57]

Love was a sailor, who taught celestial navigation at the East Hampton Marine Museum.[7] In 1983, sailed from Sag Harbor to Dark Harbor, Me., in an 18-ft. ketch-rigged open skiff. He made ocean voyages in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific in yachts.[7]

Love designed several buildings, including a house in Sag Harbor and a house in East Hampton.[7]

Love had two daughters, Mary Christy Love Sadron and Suzanna Potter Love; two sons, John and Nicholas; two sisters, Mary Lehmann and Nathalie Love; a niece, Rue Matthiessen Shaughnessy; a nephew, Alex Matthiessen; and five grandchildren.[7]

Death

Love died on May 13, 2013, of a respiratory failure at his home in Southampton, New York, aged 88.[3][7][58][59]

References
  1. "Mrs. Kennett Love Has Son". May 6, 1951 – via NYTimes.com.
  2. "Clipped From St. Louis Post-Dispatch". Mar 31, 1974. p. 42 – via newspapers.com.
  3. Slotnik, Daniel E. (May 17, 2013). "Kennett Love, Times Correspondent in 1950s, Dies at 88". Archived from the original on June 15, 2013.
  4. "Mary Catherine Urian engagement party". Jul 18, 1942. p. 9 – via newspapers.com.
  5. "Kennett Love Papers, 1953-1990". dla.library.upenn.edu.
  6. "Suzanna P. Love, Actress, Married to Ulli Lommel". The New York Times. January 27, 1978. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  7. "Kennett Love". May 24, 2013.
  8. "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, Iran, 1951–1954 - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov.
  9. Yoo, Hyun Sang (1996) An analysis of United States security policy towards a third world state during the Cold War era : case study of US-Iran relations. Durham theses, Durham University.
  10. "The Battle for Iran, 1953: Re-Release of CIA Internal History Spotlights New Details about anti-Mosaddeq Coup". nsarchive2.gwu.edu.
  11. "Princeton - in the News - April 19, 2000". pr.princeton.edu.
  12. "The CIA Looks Back at the 1953 Coup in Iran". MERIP. Sep 4, 2000.
  13. Lee, Carolyn T., A Cold War Narrative: The Covert Coup of Mohammad Mossadegh, Role of the U.S. Press and Its Haunting Legacies. Senior Theses, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 2013.
  14. William A. Dorman, Mansour Farhang The U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference University of California Press, 1988 ISBN 0520909011
  15. Bill Moyers The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (1987)
  16. "British Voice Concern; By KENNETT LOVE Special to The New York Times". Aug 23, 1956 – via NYTimes.com.
  17. "Show Magazine Buys USA 1; News Monthly to Be Suspended". Aug 11, 1962 – via NYTimes.com.
  18. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077NG5VYP
  19. "U S A 1: Monthly News and Current History". Jul 12, 1962 – via Google Books.
  20. "SHOW MAGAZINE SOLD FOR $60,000 $6.8 Million Debt Retained by Hartford Publications". Dec 3, 1964 – via NYTimes.com.
  21. "Guide to the R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Archive 1844-2005". www.lib.uchicago.edu.
  22. "USA * 1 Monthly News & Current History: All Five Issues (entire run of the magazine) by CAMPBELL, Rodney C. (president & editor); GARDNER, Addison L. (chairman & publisher): Very Good Hardcover (1962) | Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA)". Jul 12, 2020. Archived from the original on July 12, 2020.
  23. "What Program Was The First Peace Corps Project?". Peace Corps Worldwide.
  24. "Fake News at the New York Times". sevenstories.com.
  25. "ex-times reporter accused of role in 53 coup in iran" (PDF).
  26. reporter sues reporter - Central Intelligence Agency
  27. "WJR Picks the Aides". May 16, 1985 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  28. "New York Magazine". New York Media, LLC. Mar 18, 1985 – via Google Books.
  29. Kwitny, Jonathan (Jul 12, 1984). Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World. Congdon & Weed. ISBN 9780865531246 – via Google Books.
  30. Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany. "64 Years Later, CIA Finally Releases Details of Iranian Coup".
  31. "Love v. William Morrow and Co., Inc., 193 A.D.2d 586 | Casetext Search + Citator". casetext.com.
  32. "Love v. Kwitny, 706 F. Supp. 1123 (S.D.N.Y. 1989)". Justia Law.
  33. "Love v. Kwitny". h2o.law.harvard.edu.
  34. "LOVE v. WILLIAM MORROW AND CO., INC | 193 A.D.2d 586 | N.Y. App. Div. | Judgment | Law | CaseMine". www.casemine.com.
  35. http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/C%20Disk/CIA%20Reporters%20New%20York%20Times%20Series%2012-25-77/Item%2001.pdf
  36. https://blog.library.gsu.edu/2015/02/24/fair-use-the-four-factors/
  37. "Royalists Oust Mossadegh; Army Seizes Helm". archive.nytimes.com.
  38. https://scholar.colorado.edu/downloads/jq085k438
  39. http://web.stanford.edu/group/tomzgroup/pmwiki/uploads/3153-1956-01-10-PQ-a-KN.pdf
  40. Hess, John L. (1989). "More Lies Bared". Grand Street. 8 (2): 110–115. doi:10.2307/25007203. JSTOR 25007203.
  41. Dorman, William A.; Farhang, Mansour (Aug 24, 1988). The U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520909014 – via Google Books.
  42. " New York Times Covers and Aids 1953 C.I.A. Coup in Iran," CounterSpy v.4 i.4 (September-October 1980)
  43. "Four Important Books". Aug 12, 2004. Archived from the original on August 12, 2004.
  44. http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/64/c8jw8d64/files/2012C51.pdf
  45. "Register of the Herbert Romerstein collection". oac.cdlib.org.
  46. "Love v. Kwitny | Cases | H2O". opencasebook.org.
  47. Love, Kennett (Jul 12, 1976). "Suez: The Twice-Fought War, a History". McGraw-Hill Book Company – via Google Books.
  48. Love, Kennett (Jul 12, 1970). Suez: the twice-fought war. Longman. OCLC 18285448.
  49. Love, Kennett (Jul 12, 1969). "Suez--the Twice-fought War: A History". McGraw-Hill – via Google Books.
  50. Craig, Gordon (Nov 30, 1969). "Suez; The Twice-Fought War. A History by Kennett Love. Maps. 767 pp. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. $10" – via NYTimes.com.
  51. "Historical Roster of CFR's Edward R. Murrow Press Fellows". Council on Foreign Relations.
  52. "Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship". Council on Foreign Relations.
  53. "Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship 60th Anniversary Event". Council on Foreign Relations.
  54. "Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship in USA". Scholarship Positions. Jul 4, 2013.
  55. "Deborah Love Matthiessen, Author and Teacher, 44". Jan 30, 1972 – via NYTimes.com.
  56. "Catalog 132, M | Ken Lopez Bookseller". lopezbooks.com.
  57. Giulvezan, Isabel Stebbins. "The descendants of Dr. Bernard Gaines Farrar, 1784-1849". Internet Archive.
  58. "Farewell to Kennett Love, Times correspondent who covered the plane crash in 1952". May 20, 2013.
  59. "Kennett Farrar Potter Love (1924-2013)". findagrave.com.
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