Philly newsman who wrote "Oswald Still Dead" hed dies at 63

[flowomo]

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20080214_Rick_Selvin_dies_.html

(snip)
Rick Selvin arrived at the Daily News in 1980 to apply for a job. When he got to then-managing editor Zack Stalberg's office, he hesitated at the door.
"I'm really sorry," Rick said.
"What are you sorry about?" Zack inquired.
"Well, I usually wear a necktie to these interviews," Rick said, "but my tie was frozen in the trunk of my car when it got wet and when I tried to put it on, it broke."
Zack, recognizing a guy who would surely become a true Daily News character, hired him on the spot....
Richard Selvin, an innovative editor and guest headline writer for some of the major news stories of his day, and a talented musician ... died Tuesday night of multiple organ failure. He was 63 and lived in West Philadelphia.
Rick's most famous headline was inspired by the exhumation of the body of Lee Harvey Oswald on Oct. 4, 1981, in Rose Hill Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas, in a dispute over its identity:
"Oswald Still Dead."
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as an old newsman, I can appreciate that.

[PCIntern]

1. Posted earlier today...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2869201&mesg_id=2869201

I'll miss him...the guy was really something...