- Holland McCombs
James Holland McCombs (
August 5 ,1901 -June 29 ,1991 ) was an American journalist.Born in
Martin, Tennessee , Holland McCombs became a correspondent for TIME magazine in 1935, and later bureau chief for TIME and LIFE magazine in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Dallas.In 1957, he collaborated on the book "King Ranch" with Tom Lea III.
He became acquainted with
Clay Shaw of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans and befriended Shaw and became his business partner. AfterJohn F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963,Gerald Ford began theWarren Commission into the Kennedy assassination.Will Lang Jr. , Bureau Head of LIFE's Washington D.C. branch told McCombs to send him all information regarding the Commission's findings and to purchase theZapruder film for analysis. A month or so after the investigation started, McCombs informed Will Lang Jr. that he had to stop the investigation because his close friend and business partner Clay Shaw was suspected of being a conspirator in the Kennedy assassination.He died at age 89 at his home in
San Antonio, Texas . The Holland McCombs Center at theUniversity of Tennessee at Martin is named for him.External links
* [http://www.utm.edu/departments/acadpro/library/manus/ms001.htm University of Tennessee-Martin biographical note and index to Holland McCombs archives]
* [http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/32nd_Issue/holland.html John Kelin, "Holland McCombs:The Investigation that Never Was]
* [http://www.tnyesterday.com/wtf/wtf-09.html Holland McCombs, "As It Was on a Martin Farm in the Early Century" (1972)]
*"Ex-Time bureau chief Holland McCombs dies",Dallas Morning News , July 1, 1991, page 15A.
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