Richard N. Billings

Richard N. Billings is an American writer and editor.

He served as an editor for Life magazine and also for the Congressional Quarterly.[1] In the 1970s he worked as the editor for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which reinvestigated the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Later in 1981 he co-authored the book The Plot to Kill the President with the committee's Chief Counsel and Staff Director, G. Robert Blakey, wherein they argued that the mafia had killed Kennedy.[2] In 1992 a revised edition of the book was released, retitled Fatal Hour: The Assassination of President Kennedy by Organized Crime.[3]

He collaborated with Honoria Murphy Donnelly, the daughter Gerald and Sara Murphy, to produce a memoir of her parents, entitled Sara & Gerald: Villa America and After (1982).[4] In 1987 Billings and Will Brownell published a biography of William C. Bullitt, So Close to Greatness: A Biography of William C. Bullitt.[5] The next year astronaut Wally Schirra, one of the Mercury Seven, released his autobiography Schirra's Space, co-written with Billings.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Book Reviews". UPI. 14 April 1981.
  2. ^ "The Body Snatchers". The Washington Post. 8 March 1981.
  3. ^ Blakey, G. Robert; Billings, Richard N. (1992). Fatal Hour: The Assassination of President Kennedy by Organized Crime. Berkely Books.
  4. ^ Gamarekian, Barbara (6 February 1983). "In the Circle of a Charmed Life". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Steel, Ronald (29 September 1988). "The Strange Case of William Bullitt". The New York Review of Books.
  6. ^ Tobias, Russell R. (1991). America in Space: An Annotated Bibliography. Salem Press. p. 112.
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