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Jump to full article: New York Times, 2008-07-05
Author: STEVEN A. HOLMES
Intro: Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator with the courtly manner and mossy drawl who turned his hard-edged conservatism against civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday. He was 86. . . .
From 1960 to 1972, he did political commentary on WRAL radio, WRAL-TV and the Tobacco Radio Network. The stations' statewide reach and Mr. Helms's piquant commentaries against Communism, the "lax" criminal justice system and welfare turned him into a household name, both loved and hated.
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