Richard L. Wilson
Richard Lawson Wilson (September 3, 1905 – January 18, 1981) was an
Wilson was born in Galesburg, Illinois, and raised in Newton, Iowa. He was the son of Frank and Emily (McCord) Wilson, and was the youngest of nine children.
He attended the University of Iowa, at Iowa City, Iowa. There he met and later married fellow journalist Katherine Y. Macy, a graduate of the University of Iowa and the Columbia University School of Journalism.
After receiving his
During World War II, Wilson travelled extensively abroad as a war correspondent. In 1954, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, "[f]or his exclusive publication of the FBI Report to the White House in the Harry Dexter White case before it was laid before the Senate by J. Edgar Hoover."[1]
Wilson retired from active newspaper reporting in 1970, and wrote a nationally syndicated column until 1976. He died on January 18, 1981, in Washington, D.C., of complications from mycosis fungoides, a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
He received Sigma Delta Chi's annual award for Washington reporting and was a member of the University of Iowa's Journalism-Mass Communications Hall of Fame.[2]
Wilson and his wife had two children. Katherine M. Wilson died of
Wilson's professional papers are at Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa.[3] He is among many people whose conversation was captured on President Nixon's "secret tapes." [4]
References
- ^ The Pulitzer Prizes
- ^ University of Iowa Journalism-Mass Communications Hall of Fame
- ^ "Richard L. Wilson Papers". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved August 4, 2005.
- ^ Nixon Presidential Tapes 459 and 467
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