Description: (Journalist)
James Jackson Kilpatrick was a prominent American journalist, author, and grammarian. He served as the editor of The Richmond News Leader during the 1950s and early 1960s, where he advocated for the Massive Resistance strategy in response to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Kilpatrick later wrote the nationally syndicated column "A Conservative View" for thirty years starting in the mid-1960s. He engaged in intellectual debates with liberals Nicholas von Hoffman and Shana Alexander on the television news program 60 Minutes, where he expressed his strong conservative beliefs.