ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, April 20, 1997 TAG: 9704210140
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-13 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
The former speechwriter for retired Sen. Barry Goldwater helped organize Washington's first anti-abortion march.
L. Brent Bozell, a former speechwriter for retired Sen. Barry Goldwater and founder of the conservative Catholic journal Triumph, died last week of pneumonia in a Bethesda, Md., nursing home. He was 71.
Bozell founded Triumph in 1966 to counter what he described as the ``almost exclusively left-wing accents'' of the Catholic Church. He also helped organize Washington's first anti-abortion march in June 1970. He was arrested during the event and given a six-month suspended sentence for leading an attack on a George Washington University clinic.
Bozell received a law degree from Yale. He moved to Washington in 1954 to become a legal assistant and speechwriter for Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. One of the books he wrote was `McCarthy and His Enemies,'' on which he collaborated with his brother-in-law, William F. Buckley Jr.
Bozell wrote speeches for Goldwater during his 1964 presidential campaign and was ghostwriter for the senator's book.
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