Kennett Love

Love was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 17, 1924.[1] He attended Princeton University, before serving as a pilot in the Navy Air Corps during World War II.[1] In 1946, he married Felicite Pratt, with whom he had two daughters, Mary and Suzanna, and two sons, John and Nicholas.[1] He subsequently completed his university studies at Columbia University.[1]

After finishing college, Love began The Hudson-Dispatch newspaper in Union City, New Jersey before joining The New York Times in 1948, working in the morgue before becoming a newspaper reported in 1950.[1]

Love and another reporter for The Associated Press wrote about the decrees signed by the Shah that called for General Zahedi to replace Mr. Mossadegh. The release of the decrees, which helped legitimize the coup, was engineered by the C.I.A., though Love insisted later that he had been unaware of the agency's involvement.

When he was based in Cairo in 1954, he wrote front-page articles about the discovery of a 50-foot boat that had been intended to convey the spirit of the pharaoh Cheops to the underworld.[1]

Love died on May 13, 2013 of a respiratory failure at his home in Southampton, New York, aged 88.[1]