Edwin Guthman, Pulitzer Prize-winner, dies at 89

[Kerrytravelers]

Source: Yahoo! news

LOS ANGELES - Edwin O. Guthman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the infamous "enemies list" prepared by aides of President Richard Nixon and served as press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy, has died at 89.

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Guthman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1950 for his stories in The Seattle Times on the Washington state Legislature's Un-American Activities Committee. His reporting cleared a University of Washington professor of allegations that he was a Communist supporter.

Guthman was press secretary for attorney general and later Sen. Robert F. Kennedy from 1961 to '65.

A Kennedy loyalist in his private life, Guthman wrote or edited four books about Robert F. Kennedy. And he always wore a tie clip that President John Kennedy had given him, according to the USC Annenberg School for Communication.

In 1971, Guthman was the third name on a 20-name list of political opponents singled out for harassment in a memo sent from Nixon aide Charles Colson to aide John Dean.

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Ed Guthman was my Investigative Journalism professor at USC. He is one of the reasons I went into J-School at USC. He was incrediable and will be missed very much.

And yes, he did always wear that tie clip.

This is a sad day for Journalism.