Background
Chandler was born in Covington, Kentucky.
governor of Louisiana journalist
Chandler was born in Covington, Kentucky.
He was associated with early coverage of the Kennedy Assassination and was mentioned in the Warren Commission report. Following service in the merchant marine and United States. Navy, Chandler worked three years from 1959 for The News-Herald in Panama City, Florida. From 1972 he was a free-lance writer of magazine articles and books
Chandler"s books include Brothers in Blood (1975), a history of the Cosa Nostra.
The Natural Superiority of Southern Politicians, (1977). 100 Tons of Gold about a mysterious gold horde in New Mexico.
Henry Flagler: The Astonishing Life and Times of the Visionary Robber Baron Who Founded Florida (1986). The Binghams of Louisville (1988), a controversial biography of Robert Worth Bingham (who married Flagler"s widow a year before her death).
And The Jefferson Conspiracies (1994), about the death of Meriwether Lewis (released several months after Chandler"s death).
Chandler lived in New Orleans during the late 1960s and 1970s where he resided in an apartment in a building owned by Clay Shaw. He died in Denver at age 56.