Background
Turner was born on March 15, 1921, to Clyde H. and Ina Belle (née Wallace) Turner in Titusville, Florida, and raised in The Ozarks region in Missouri.
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Turner was born on March 15, 1921, to Clyde H. and Ina Belle (née Wallace) Turner in Titusville, Florida, and raised in The Ozarks region in Missouri.
Bachelor of Journalism, University Missouri, 1943. Postgraduate (Nieman fellow), Harvard University, 1959.
Turner later worked in the Kennedy administration before returning to the newspaper business where he worked for The New York Times. He was one of three brothers in the family. That year he also started in the newspaper business, working for the Springfield News in Springfield, Missouri.
In 1943, they settled in Portland, Oregon, where he took a job as the night police reporter for the Daily Oregonian.
The two writers uncovered widespread corruption in the local government that involved labor union officials, which helped lead to investigations into organized crime across the country. Turner even testified in 1957 before the United States. Senate"s Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, commonly known as the McClellan Committee, concerning the corruption.
Turner then went to Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship for a year after winning the Pulitzer. Turner left The Oregonian in 1959 to become the news director at Portland television station KPTV. He then left the station in 1961 to work as an Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (Department of Health, Education and Welfare) in the administration of President John F. Kennedy.
He served as an assistant secretary until 1962 when he became the press secretary to the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Abraham Ribicoff.
Later that year he returned to journalism and worked for The New York Times. With The Times, Wallace worked as a correspondent in their San Francisco bureau from 1962 to 1970, and then as the bureau chief their from 1970 until 1985. While in San Francisco he covered the shootings of Harvey Milk and George Moscone.
Turner left San Francisco in 1985 to open The Times" new Seattle news bureau.
He continued in that capacity until his retirement in 1988. After leaving The New York Times he returned to Oregon where he settled in the Eugene area.
Wallace Turner died on September 18, 2010, in Springfield, Oregon, at the age of 89 from medical complications associated with old age.
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Married Pearl Burk, June 12, 1943. Chldren: Kathleen Turner, Elizabeth Turner Everett.