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Snap: JFK speechwriter Sorensen dies

by Hawes Spencer
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published 11:46am Monday Nov 1, 2010
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news-sorensenSorensen, center, with Bob Gibson and Robert Patterson.
FILE PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER

Ted Sorensen, the man widely credited with penning JFK’s immortal “Ask not what your country can do for you…” inaugural speech, has died at the age of 82. His death comes just two years after he spoke in Charlottesville to a group of invited guests of UVA’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership (named for a late benefactor/brother). He regaled the audience with farm stories, fly-on-wall tales of the Cuban Missile crisis, and a mild jab or two at the Bush Administration.

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