Don Whitehead

Journalist

Birthday April 8, 1908

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace Virginia

DEATH DATE Jan 12, 1981 (72)

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About

Pulitzer prize-winning American journalist who covered World War II and the Korean War for the Associated Press.

Before Fame

He graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1928.

Trivia

He won two Pulitzer Prize awards: the first in 1951 for International Reporting, and the second in 1953 for National Reporting.

Family Life

He had a daughter with his wife Marie Patterson, whom he married in 1928.

Associated With

He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for an article about Dwight Eisenhower's security detail when he was en route to Korea in 1952.