Pete Hamill, the New York newspaperman who went to bat for the disenfranchised and became a larger-than-life personality during the city's last great era of print journalism, has died. He was 85.
The Insider and showed up in other films like Blood on the TracksHamill helped convince his good friend Sen. Robert F. Kennedy to make a run for the presidency, and he worked for his campaign and covered it as well . He was there in the kitchen passageway at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, when Kennedy was fatally shot, and he helped disarm the gunman, Sirhan Sirhan.
His father was a semipro soccer player who lost his leg in an injury during the 1920s and after World War II made fluorescent lighting fixtures in a factory. His mother worked as a domestic, a nurses' aide and for Wanamaker's department store and the RKO theater chain. In 1949, Hamill was accepted to the prestigious, tuition-free Regis High School in Manhattan but left near the end of his second year at age 16 to become an apprentice sheet metal worker at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. After work, he attended night classes at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School.
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