RIP Curt Gentry

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Noted author who wrote Helter Skelter, about the Manson murders, with prosecuting attorney Vincent Bugliosi. He also wrote a detailed biography of J. Edgar Hoover, published in 1991, and co-wrote with Francis Gary Powers, Operation Overflight, a 1970 book about Powers' ill fated U-2 mission.

Age 83

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/books ... .html?_r=0