Background
Boyle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 24, 1911, the son of butcher Peter E. Boyle and his wife Margarit, an Irish immigrant farm girl.
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Hal Boyle
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During 30 years with the Associated Press Boyle wrote 7,680 columns. He is best known for his work as a war correspondent during World World War World War II He was consistently closer to the front lines in the European and Pacific theatres of operation than other correspondents. His column became a staple in over 700 newspapers.
He is also the namesake of a prize given annually to reporters by the Oversees Press Club of America, for the best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad.
Boyle began his newspaperwork as a copy boy in Kansas City"s Associated Press Bureau in 1928. After attending the Junior College of Kansas City (Now Metropolitan Community College), he studied journalism at the University of Missouri, graduating with distinction in 1932.
After working in the Associated Press"s Saint Louis bureau, he moved to New York in 1936. By the time the United States entered World World War II, Boyle had become an assistant city editor with the Associated Press.
Achievements
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Boyle received the Pulitzer Prize on May 7, 1945 for his "distinguished correspondence" from the war during 1944. In 1951, the Veterans of Foreign Wars awarded him the Omar Bradley Award, given for the most distinguished contribution to national security, for his coverage of the Korean War. Boyle portrayed himself in the 1945 film dramatization of Ernie Pyle"s book, "The Story of G.I. Joe." In 1951, Boyle contributed a section to a Collier"s Weekly special publication entitled "Preview of the War We Do Not Want." Consistent with the book"s purpose to depict the effects of a hypothetical future war with another nuclear power, Boyle"s piece (entitled "Washington Under the Bomb") described, in the form of a news story, the aftermath of dropping one nuclear bomb on Washington District of Columbia In 1969 the Associated Press published "Help, Help! Another Day!: The World of Hal Boyle." Boyle died of a heart attack at his home in New York City on April 1, 1974. His death came four months after being diagnosed with "Lou Gehrig"s Disease" (amytrophic lateral sclerosis). He was laid to rest in Kansas City. In 1980, a selected set of his columns and articles were republished in "The Best of Boyle.".
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