Damore, Leo.

Author and reporter.

Leo Damore was born in 1929 in Ontario, Canada, and moved to North Tonawanda, New York, with his family. He graduated from Kent State University in 1952. During his years on campus, he was a prominent writer for the Chestnut Burr and the Daily Kent Stater. Damore was working for The Cape Cod News in July 1969 when the incident involving Senator Edward Kennedy and the death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquidick occurred. Damore, who had a reputation as a dogged, thorough reporter, was able to obtain interviews and investigatory materials from police and court officials which he would use in his New York Times bestseller, Senatorial Privilege. Damore's other books include The Crime of Dorothy Sheridan, In His Garden, The Cape Cod Years of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Cache, a novel. Damore committed suicide in October 1995.