Julius Ochs Adler, 78; PR Man Worked for RFK and McGovern

Julius Ochs Adler, a businessman and public relations consultant whose high-profile clients included Robert F. Kennedy and George McGovern, died Monday in New York following a stroke. He was 78.

Adler worked on Kennedy’s 1964 Senate campaign and was the New York press secretary for McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign.

As a vice president at Thomas J. Deegan Co., he did public relations consulting for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Kaiser Aluminum Corp.

Adler worked until 1959 as an executive in the advertising, circulation, mechanical and promotion departments of the New York Times. His father was Maj. Gen. Julius Ochs Adler, president and publisher of the Chattanooga Times and general manager of the New York Times from 1935 until 1955. His great-grandfather was Adolph S. Ochs, who purchased the New York Times in 1896.