James Markham

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Person.png James MarkhamRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(journalist, Iran-Contra/Premature death)
BornMarch 7, 1943
DiedAug. 9, 1989 (Age 46)
Paris, France
Cause of death
shot with air rifle
"suicide"
NationalityUS
Alma materPrinceton, Balliol College (Oxford)
Member ofRhodes Scholar/1965
New York Times foreign correspondent who allegedly killed himself with air rifle while investigating leads in the Iran-Contra affair.

Employment.png Foreign correspondent

In office
1971 - August 9, 1989
EmployerNew York Times
Allegedly killed himself with air rifle

James Markham was the New York Times foreign correspondent in Paris[1][2]. He was investigating parts of the Iran-Contra affair when he died, allegedly killing himself with an air rifle.[3]

Education

A graduate of Princeton and a former Rhodes scholar, Markham spoke half a dozen languages, ranging from Spanish to Hindustani.

Career

A veteran correspondent, he joined the newspaper as a metropolitan reporter in 1971 and later reported from Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Markham moved from the Saigon bureau to Beirut in 1975, covering Lebanon's civil strife, and in 1976 he took over the Madrid bureau and traveled from Spain to the Middle East to cover the Iranian revolution and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1978.

Death

Markham was found dead in his Paris apartment on August 9, 1989, in what police said was a suicide.

Markham, 46, had just been named the paper’s next deputy foreign editor, a post he was to have assumed Sept. 11.


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