- John Sack
John Sack (1930–2004) was an American literary journalist. He was the only journalist to cover each American war over half a century.
He was born to a
Jew ish family onMarch 24 ,1930 , inNew York City . His work has appeared in such periodicals as "Harper's ", "The Atlantic ", "Esquire" and "The New Yorker ". He was awar correspondent inKorea ,Vietnam ,Iraq , andYugoslavia , as well asCBS News bureau chief in Spain.He also wrote ten books, including the controversial title, "". The book caused an uproar because Sack reported that, at the end of
World War II , a number of JewishHolocaust survivors, likeSalomon Morel , ran some Polish-Communistconcentration camp s and prisons, where they tortured and killed mostly German but also Polish civilians, including women and children. Morel was never interred in a Nazi concentration camp and in fact served the Soviet-sympathizing communist partisans as a career criminal.John Sack did extensive research and fought off major attempts to suppress his book. He died on
March 27 ,2004 , of complications frombone marrow cancer .The book "An Eye for an Eye", states that "Not for sixty years has a book been so brutally ..suppressed...It became a best-seller in Europe but was shunned in America..."
External links
* [http://www.johnsack.com/ www.johnsack.com, his official homepage, 'The Jack Sack Site']
* [http://www.blogofdeath.com/archives/000859.html Blog of Death: John Sack]
* [http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2004/040330_mfe_obit.html Obituary in Esquire]
* [http://www.davidicke.net/tellthetruth/coverups/sack.html John Sack Passes - Author Of 'An Eye For An Eye' The Story Of Jewish Revenge Against The Germans]
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