. . . . . "2014-05-08Z"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "1942-10-07Z"^^ . . "2014Z"^^ . . "American journalist, academic, press secretary" . "1943Z"^^ . . . . "Thorn, Jesse Dale"@en . . . . . . . "1942Z"^^ . "Jesse Dale Thorn, usually known as Dale Thorn or as J. Dale Thorn (October 7, 1942 \u2013 May 8, 2014), was a journalist and professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who was the first press secretary during the 1970s to then Governor Edwin Edwards, a Democrat."@en . . "Jesse Dale Thorn"@en . .