The block I live on has been grieving a beloved neighbor.
Journalist and author Priscilla Johnson McMillan died on July 7, 2021, just before her 93rd birthday. McMillan spoke in hushed tones but was a powerful voice on local matters like zoning or global issues like nuclear disarmament.
She and her husband had a front row seat in the civil rights movement. Both white, he taught at historically Black colleges. She befriended a young John Lewis and threw him his engagement party.
Before that, as a young reporter in Moscow, she hung out with novelist Truman Capote. He wrote about their friendship in his book, “The Muses Are Heard.”
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Priscilla McMillan, Who Knew Both Kennedy and Oswald, Dies at 92
A Cold War scholar, she met Oswald four years before Kennedy’s assassination and later wrote “Marina and Lee,” a book about him and his Russian wife.
Priscilla Johnson McMillan in Moscow in an undated photo. She interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald there in 1959 about why he was defecting to the Soviet Union.Credit.via Johnson family
July 13, 2021, 5:41 p.m. ET
Priscilla Johnson McMillan, believed to be the only person to have conversed extensively with both John F. Kennedy and his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died on July 7 at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 92.