Obituary
Richard Thornburgh, Governor in 1970s Nuclear Crisis, Dies at 88
- A ‘reassuring’ leader during the Three Mile Island crisis
- He served as U.S. attorney general from 1988 to 1991
Richard Thornburgh served as an examiner in the bankruptcy of WorldCom Inc. in 2003.
Photographer: Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg
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Richard Thornburgh, who handled the Three Mile Island nuclear accident two months after his inauguration as Pennsylvania governor and later prosecuted white-collar criminals as U.S. attorney general, has died. He was 88.
He died Thursday morning at a retirement community facility outside Pittsburgh, the Associated Press reported, citing his son David. The cause is not yet known, AP said.