Wow.
My brother and Mike the Musicologist sent this to me literally within seconds of each other, which goes to show you how well they know me:
Details are kind of sketchy right now. Here’s the Boston Herald coverage: apparently he had just been moved to the WV facility from one in Florida.
This is still a developing story, and I’m not finding much coverage outside of the Boston papers: it may be best to wait and post an update tomorrow.
Also among the dead: Victor Marchetti, former CIA agent and author who challenged the agency’s prior approval rule.
Ntozake Shange, noted playwright.
Edited to add: preliminary NYT coverage of Whitey Bulger, which wasn’t up when I posted earlier.
…was found beaten to death on Tuesday in a West Virginia prison. He was 89.
Two Federal Bureau of Prisons employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the information was not yet public, said Mr. Bulger had been beaten unrecognizable by inmates. No other details were immediately available.
Interesting. The anonymous sources are saying he was beaten to death, not stabbed. But…