Trivia

He was the voice behind the famous radio announcement of President Kennedy's death in which he breaks down in the middle of the announcement.

He supported President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Congress for the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He criticized the President for the country's involvement in Southeast Asia.

He denounced President Richard M. Nixon for the bombing in Cambodia and the Watergate Scandal that he was put on Nixon's enemies' list.

Son of a North Carolina railroad freight conductor, Delancey David, and his mother, Esta Cameron Wicker.

He worked on his high school newspaper before he decided to make a career in journalism. He served the United States Navy during World War II. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1948. After college, spent a decade at several newspapers in North Carolina including Winston-Salem Journal before becoming the Washington D.C. Correspondent.

In 1957-1958, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1959, he became an associate editor for the Nashville Tennessean Newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1960, he was hired for the New York Times' Washington D.C. Bureau Offices. He covered the 1960 Congress, Kennedy White House, and 1960 political campaigns and presidential trips abroad. He was named Chief of the New York Times Washington Bureau on September 1,1964 and remained until 1968. In 1968, he was appointed associate editor until his retirement in 1972.

He wrote for his syndicated column, "In The Nation," from 1966 until 1991.

He condemned Presidents like Gerald R. Ford for continuing the Vietnam War; President Jimmy Carter for the soaring inflation and Iranian hostage crisis; President Ronald Reagan for the Iran-Contra Scandal; President George H.W. Bush I for the Persian Gulf War and failing in health care and educational needs back home.

He was one of the hostages at the Attica Prison crisis in September 1971.

He is survived by his second wife, Pamela Hill Wicker of Rochester, Vermont; his children from his first marriage, a daughter Cameron Wickerl and son, Thomas Grey Wicker Jr.; two stepdaughters, Kayce Freed Jennings and Lisa Freed; and a stepson Christopher Hill.