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James Preston O'Donnell (July 30, 1917 – April 1990) was an American author and journalist. == Biography == O'Donnell was educated at Harvard University and worked as a journalist, mostly for magazines. He was a friend of the Kennedy family. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps until July 2, 1945, when he was discharged. He became ''Newsweek'' magazine's German bureau chief. In this capacity, he arrived in Berlin on July 4. He was assigned to investigate Hitler's death and to obtain information as to Eva Braun. O'Donnell bribed the Soviet soldier guarding the entrance to Hitler's Berlin bunker becoming the first non-Soviet to examine it. He found and took numerous top secret Nazi documents. After using these documents and interviews with many of the last occupants of the Führerbunker in his later publications, he became an authority on the death of Adolf Hitler, and ultimately published his collected findings in his 1975 book, ''The Bunker''. After his tenure with ''Newsweek'', O'Donnell worked for many years as a freelance journalist in Germany, and published pieces in magazines ranging from ''Life magazine'' to ''The Saturday Evening Post''. He later joined the U.S. State Department as an adviser on Berlin. He spent his last years as a journalism professor at Boston University. In 2011, historian Niall Ferguson credited O'Donnell as one of the few Western observers who accurately foresaw the fall of the Berlin Wall.〔Ferguson, ''Civilization'', p. 252: "The most uncannily accurate prophecy was by the American journalist James P. O'Donnell in an article entitled "The Ghost Train of Berlin", published in the West German ''Reader's Digest'' magazine ''Das Beste'' in January 1979, which foresaw the destruction of the wall ten years later and even the sale of pieces of the wall as souvenirs."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James P. O'Donnell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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