Jack Anderson
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About
Muckraking newspaper columnist who wrote about such Washington scandals as Watergate, the alleged Mafia ties of J. Edgar Hoover, and a CIA plan to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Before Fame
At age twelve, he penned a column for a Utah Boy Scouts publication. He later wrote for The Salt Lake Tribune and served in World War II.
Trivia
In 1972, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his investigative journalism work on American-Pakistani relations.
Family Life
He was born in southern California to Mormon parents, and he was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He and his wife Olivia became parents to nine children.
Associated With
He wrote on such controversial topics as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
