I.f. stone biography

When PM folds, Stone writes briefly for the New York Star and then for the Daily Compass.

Writing “The Hidden History of the Korean War: ” in the midst of the war, Stone investigates its origins and questions the official explanations for why America went to war.

After the Daily Compass collapses, Stone starts his own paper, I.F.

Stone’s Weekly. He conducts all of the investigating, writing, printing and distribution with the assistance of his wife, Esther.

Stone’s defense of the Warren Commission report , which rejected a conspiracy in the assassination of John F.

Kennedy, angers many of his readers.

In galvanizing public support for the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson uses the orchestrated Gulf of Tonkin incident to justify the escalation, passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution through Congress just three days later.

Stone is the first reporter to question the credibility of the government’s account, and he criticiz