9/11 Cover-Up Architect Dies

Ex-Harvard College dean Ernest May dies at age 80

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6/2/2009

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Harvard University history professor and former dean Ernest May has died. He was 80.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences said May died Monday at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston from complications following surgery.

May served as Harvard College dean from 1969 to 1971 and oversaw a major examination of undergraduate education.

May, a renowned historian of international relations and foreign policy, also served as director of the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics from 1971 to 1974.

More recently, he was senior adviser to the 9/11 Commission from 2002 to 2004.

Kennedy School Dean David Elmwood says May devoted his life to teaching people how to use history to make effective policy decisions.

Ernest May, 1928-2009: Historian and adviser to 9/11 Commission

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By Alexander F. Remington | The Washington Post
June 12, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Ernest May, a Harvard historian who became a senior adviser to the 9/11 Commission that analyzed the 2001 terrorist attacks in Washington and New York, died June 1 at a hospital in Boston. Mr. May, 80, had complications after surgery for cancer.

Mr. May taught at Harvard for 55 years, and he was a prolific writer, frequently working with other eminent historians. He collaborated with John Hope Franklin and John Caughey on "Land of the Free" (1965), a controversial 8th-grade history textbook that offered a frank look at America's history of slavery and denial of civil rights to African-Americans, and with fellow Harvard historian Richard Neustadt on "Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers" (1986).

Mr. May's scholarship frequently emphasized the effect decision-makers had on history. In 2000, he wrote a revisionist history of the German occupation of France during World War II, "Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France," in which he concluded that if not for the poor quality of France's military strategy, "It is more than conceivable that the outcome would have been not France's defeat but Germany's."

In 2003, Mr. May was recruited to the 9/11 Commission by Philip Zelikow, whom Mr. May had encouraged to lead the commission. Zelikow had edited three volumes with Mr. May on President John F. Kennedy's presidential tapes, which formed the basis for the film "Thirteen Days," starring Kevin Costner as an aide to Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.