# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-weisberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:23:45.400Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-weisberg"
name: "Harold Weisberg"
slug: "harold-weisberg"
description: "Harold Weisberg was a former newspaper reporter and U.S. Senate staff investigator who spent the last decades of his life researching and writing about the JFK assassination. Sometimes dubbed \"the dean of the assassination researchers\", Weisberg was one of the foremost members of the so-called first-generation critics of the Warren Commission. His best-known work was the four-part series, Whitewash. He also wrote about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-04-08"
deathDate: "2002-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.80972
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0918718/"
    handle:    "nm0918718"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harold_Weisberg"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC"
    title: "هارولد يسبيرج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC"
    title: "هارولد يسبيرج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Weisberg"
    title: "Harold Weisberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Weisberg"
    title: "Harold Weisberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Weisberg"
    title: "Harold Weisberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%88_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF"
    title: "ہیرالڈ ویزبرگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16015666"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3705061"
    title: "Harold Weisberg"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump