The Washington Post, April 10th, 1996
Richard Condon, 81, the best-selling author whose novel of brainwashing and murder, "The Manchurian Candidate," featured eerie similarities to the future assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died April 9 at a hospital here. He had heart and kidney ailments. Mr. Condon, a onetime film publicist who didn't take up novel writing until he was in his forties, saw "The Manchurian Candidate" and another of his novels, "Prizzi's Honor," made into acclaimed movies. Among his other novels, many with a strong satiric, anti-establishment bent, were "The Oldest Confession," "Some Angry Angel," "Empe...
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