The New York Times reports:
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, who helped shape the political history of the 1960s, facing down segregationists, riding herd on historic civil rights legislation and helping to map Vietnam War strategy as a central player in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died on Tuesday night at his home in Skillman, N.J. He was 90.
James Meredith leaves the Oxford, Miss. airport bound for the Ole Miss campus the evening of September 30, 1962 sitting between Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. (Photo credit: ZUMA Press/Newscom)
Alabama Gov. George Wallace attempts to block integration at the University of Alabama, standing defiantly at a door while being confronted by US Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach on June 11, 1963. (Photo credit: World History Archive/Newscom)
