Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? (15 page)

Breslin as a young man with his sister Diedre.

Breslin writing at home in Forest Hills, Queens.

Breslin chats with Robert F. Kennedy, who was campaigning in Los Angeles during the 1968 presidential race.

Breslin (right) and columnist Red Smith both writing for the
New York Herald Tribune
during the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968.

Breslin in Ireland in 1971, while writing
World Without End, Amen
.

Breslin with Bella Abzug, a New York congresswoman and social activist.

Letters from David Berkowitz, a.k.a. Son of Sam, delivered to Breslin at the
New York Daily News
offices. Son of Sam sent letters to Breslin during his killing spree in New York City in the summer of 1977. These letters were later used in the Spike Lee film
Summer of Sam
(2008).

Breslin with grandson Dillon Breslin in June 1980.

Breslin in the
New York Daily News
offices with publisher Jim Hogue (left) and editor Gil Spencer (right) after the announcement of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1986.

Breslin (far left) with the crew of his television show,
Jimmy Breslin's People
, and Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill (fourth from right) in 1986.

The Breslin family in 1989.