Richard Kindleberger died he was , 67

Richard Kindleberger died he was 67. Kindleberger was an American newspaper reporter who worked at the Boston Globe.

(1943 - January 1, 2010)

Richard Kindleberger was born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1943, and later grew in Lincoln, Nebraska. He had one sister and two brothers. His father, Charles P. Kindleberger, was an economist at MIT and an architect of the Marshal Plan. In 1960, Richard graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and began to develop his fondess for languages and learned Russian, French, German, and Spanish. After graduating from Cornell Univeristy in 1967, he began to work as a reporter at the Worcester Evening Gazette for almost 3 years. When Richard received a master’s in Russian literature, he was later hired by the globe where he works as an environmental reporter and a copy editor in 1972. He joined a spotlight team and had to help investigate reports on abuses in the State's Civil Service System and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. He explained to readers that civil service problems were transcended examples from workers that had political connections.

On 1978, Richard married Sarah Wells and later had two daughters named Kate and Carrie Kindleberger. Richard spent more than 12 years with Sarah until she died from a cancer. Richard took care of his two daughters for almost three years until he later married Jean Hale.

Spending at least thirty years as a reporter and editor, Richard died from a brain tumor on the first day of 2010.