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James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995), nicknamed "Scotty", was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with ''The New York Times.'' ==Life and career== Reston was born in Clydebank, Scotland, into a poor, devout Scottish Presbyterian family that emigrated to the United States in 1920. He sailed with his mother and sister to New York as steerage passengers on board the SS ''Mobile'' and they were inspected at Ellis Island on September 28, 1920.〔Ship's manifest, S.S. "Mobile", Oct. 7, 1920, Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, http://www.ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup_weif_5a.asp?src=%2Fcgi-bin%2Ftif2gif.exe%3FT%3D\\\\192.168.100.11\\images\\T715-2843\\T715-28430422.TIF%26S%3D.5&pID=103036030194&name=Robert%26nbsp%3BSelf&doa=Sep+28%2C+1920&port=Liverpool&line=0014〕 After working briefly for the Springfield, Ohio ''Daily News'', he joined the Associated Press in 1934. He moved to the London bureau of ''The New York Times'' in 1939, but returned to New York in 1940. In 1942, he took leave of absence to establish a U.S. Office of War Information in London. Rejoining the ''Times'' in 1945, Reston was assigned to Washington, D.C., as national correspondent. In 1948, he was appointed diplomatic correspondent, followed by bureau chief and columnist in 1953. Reston married his wife Sally (born Sarah Jane Fulton) on December 24, 1935, after meeting her at the University of Illinois. He also was a member of Sigma Pi - Phi Chapter at Illinois.〔Dunlap, David W., "Sally F. Reston, Journalist and Photographer, Dies at 89", ''The New York Times'', September 24, 2001〕 They had three sons; James, a journalist, non-fiction writer and playwright; Thomas, formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for public affairs and the deputy spokesman for the State Department;〔"Victoria Kiechel, Architect, Is Married To Thomas Busey Reston, a Lawyer", ''The New York Times'', May 6, 1990〕 and Richard, the publisher of the ''Vineyard Gazette'', a newspaper on Martha's Vineyard from 1998 to 2003.〔Apple, R. W., ("James Reston, a Giant of Journalism, Dies at 86" ), ''The New York Times'', December 7, 1995〕 In subsequent years, Reston served as associate editor of the Times from 1964 to 1968, executive editor from 1968 to 1969, and vice president from 1969 to 1974. He wrote a nationally syndicated column from 1974 until 1987, when he became a senior columnist. During the Nixon administration, he was on the master list of Nixon political opponents. Reston retired from the Times in 1989. Reston interviewed many of the world's leaders and wrote extensively about the leading events and issues of his time. He interviewed President John F. Kennedy immediately after the 1961 Vienna summit with Nikita Khrushchev on the heels of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Stephen Kinzer's 2013 book ''The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War'' portrayed Reston as a key contact of former CIA chief Allen Dulles and that he had collaborated with the CIA in Operation Mockingbird, in which the CIA sought to influence global reporting and journalism. Reston's books include ''Prelude to Victory'' (1942), ''The Artillery of the Press'' (1967), ''Sketches in the Sand'' (1967), and a memoir, ''Deadline'' (1991). 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 Reston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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