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Edward Jay Epstein
American investigative journalist (1935–2024)
Edward Jay Epstein (December 6, 1935 – January 9, 2024) was an American investigative journalist and a political science professor at Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][2]
Early life and education
Edward Jay Epstein was born in New York City on December 6, 1935.[3] He earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in government from Cornell University.[4] One of his professors at Cornell was Vladimir Nabokov.
In 1973, he received his PhD in government from Harvard University.[3]
Career
Epstein taught courses at these universities for three years. While a graduate student at Cornell University in 1966, he published the book Inquest, an influential critique of the Warren Commission probe into the John F.
Kennedy assassination. After teaching at Harvard, UCLA, and MIT, Epstein decid