Warren Rogers

Background

Warren Rogers was born on May 6, 1922, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the son of Warren Joseph and Rose Agatha Rogers.

Education

Warren Rogers attended Tulane University but left in 1941. He also studied at Louisiana State University in 1951.

Career

Warren Rogers drop out and join the Marines in 1941. He fought in the Pacific theater during World War II and saw action at Guadalcanal. Returning home, he worked his way up from copy boy to cub reporter at the New Orleans Item.

Rogers joined the Associated Press in 1947, where he worked as a reporter in Baton Rouge before being assigned to Washington in 1951. He became a diplomatic correspondent there from 1953 to 1959, and then he was hired by the New York Herald Tribune in 1959. Rogers covered military affairs and international news for the next four years, and it was while working for the Herald Tribune that he met and became friends with Bobby Kennedy. He then returned to Washington as chief correspondent for Hearst Newspapers and then as an editor for Look magazine in 1966.

The 1960s were eventful years, and Warren Rogers covered such high-profile news as the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. His friendship with Kennedy gave him inside access into the 1968 campaign, and when Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles, Rogers was there and rode with him in the ambulance. He left Look in 1970 to work briefly for the Los Angeles Times, then the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, where all the while covering events in the nation's capital.

During the mid-1970s, Rogers left journalism to be vice president of public affairs for the National Forest Products Association. He returned to journalism as editor-in-chief of Plus Publications from 1977 to 1979 and then as editor of the newsletter White House Weekly from 1981 to 1989. He also ran the Georgetown Courier from 1991 to 1992, but since 1979, Rogers mostly worked as a freelancer. As a writer, he was the author of several books about the Kennedys, including Ted Kennedy, Hickory Hill: Bob Kennedy at Home, and When I Think of Bobby: A Personal Memoir of the Kennedy Years, as well as other works such as The Floating Revolution and Outpost of Freedom, written with Roger Donlon.

Achievements

• Warren Rogers is widely known as a writer and journalist. He served as a reporter for more than forty years. While working for the New York Herald Tribune, Rogers was nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, one for a series Our Man on the Bus and one for a series of reporting on Green Beret combat in Vietnam. As a writer, thanks to his friendship with Robert Francis Kennedy, Rogers was the author of several works about the Kennedys.

Works

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  • When I Think of Bobby

    (A friend of Robert Kennedy's relates his account of parti...)

    1993
  • The Floating Revolution 1962
  • Outpost of Freedom 1965

Membership

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  Warren Rogers was the president of the National Press Club in 1972.

  National Press Club , United States

• Federal City Club , United States

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  Gridiron Club , United States

• Washington Indiana Writers , United States

Connections

Warren Rogers married Hilda Kenny on December 23, 1943. They had two children, Patricia Ann and Sean. However, Hilda died, and Rogers married again on December 26, 1973. His wife was Alla Bilajiw. They had one son, Michael.

Father:

Warren Joseph Rogers

Mother:

Rose Agatha Rogers

Rose Agatha Rogers's maiden name was Tennyson.

late wife:

Hilda Kenny

Hilda Kenny was Warren Rogers's first wife.

Wife:

Alla Bilajiw

Alla Bilajiw was Warren Rogers's second wife.

Daughter:

Patricia Ann Rogers

Son:

Sean Rogers

Son:

Michael Rogers

Friend:

Robert Francis Kennedy

Robert Francis Kennedy was an American attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and later a United States senator in 1965-1968.