NEW YORK - Pierre Salinger, who worked as President John F. Kennedy's press secretary has died, ABC news reported Saturday.
Salinger, 79, died from a heart attack in France, said the U.S. network
He was 35 years old when he served Kennedy. He left the White House in 1964 and eventually became a California senator before returning to a career in journalism.
In 1977 he became ABC television's Paris bureau chief after working many years as a print journalist.
In 1997, he suggested that TWA Flight 800, on its way to Paris, was shot down by a U.S. Navy missile. Official records show that the plane was destroyed by a center fuel tank explosion.
Salinger was the author of several books including, With Kennedy; America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations; Secret Dossier: The Hidden Agenda Behind the Gulf War and P.S. A Memoir.
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2004/10/16/salinger_kennedy041016.html