Charles L. Bartlett (journalist)
Charles L. Bartlett | |
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Born | Chicago, Illinois, US | August 14, 1921
Died | February 17, 2017 Washington, D.C., US | (aged 95)
Occupation | Journalist |
Known for | 1956 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting |
Relatives | Patsy Pulitzer (sister-in-law) |
Charles Leffingwell Bartlett (August 14, 1921 – February 17, 2017) was an American journalist who won the 1956
Secretary of the Air Force."[1]
Life
Bartlett was born in
Chicago, Illinois, to Valentine Crouse Bartlett, a stockbroker, and Marie A. (Frost) Bartlett. Bartlett was a seventh-generation graduate of Yale University in 1943.[2][3] He served in the Navy during World War II
. He married Josephine Martha Buck on December 17, 1950.
Bartlett had a 65-year career in journalism and was a confidant to presidents John F. Kennedy and
Saturday Evening Post.[4]
Bartlett opened the
Chattanooga Times.[5] Later he was a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and publisher of a political newsletter for private clients. He wrote for the Yale Daily News in college.[3]
Bartlett has been credited with arranging the blind date that initiated the courtship of
John F. Kennedy, Jr
.
Bartlett died in Washington, D.C., on February 17, 2017, at age 95,[7] in his sleep from a heart ailment.[3]
Works
- Facing the brink : an intimate study of crisis diplomacy Hutchinson of London, [1969] OCLC 220455731
References
- ^ "National Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- ^ a b c Bernstein, Adam (February 18, 2017). "Charles Bartlett, Pulitzer-winning journalist and Kennedy loyalist, Dies at 95". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- ^ "How I was ambushed by Nick Robinson" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-09-04.
- TIME, June 16, 1958.
- ^ Cover story, TIME, January 20, 1961.
- ^ a b Purdum, Todd S. (February 18, 2017). "He made a match that changed history". Politico.com.
- Other sources
- Elizabeth A. Brennan, Elizabeth C. Clarage, Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999). Page 457 at google books.
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