Education
He attended Guilford College but left for a job at the Chattanooga Times.
He attended Guilford College but left for a job at the Chattanooga Times.
According to his Washington Post obituary, he was considered "the godfather of National Aeronautics and Space Administration space reporting."
He served as a first lieutenant in the United States Army during World World War World War II He worked briefly in The Pentagon"s information office before joining the Washington Star as a reporter and later becoming Sunday editors His critical coverage of the Apollo 1 fire in 1967 led to reforms at National Aeronautics and Space Administration. His Washington reporting landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. He left the Star in 1968 for the Chicago Daily News and later became Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Sun-Times.
He retired from the Sun-Times in 1989.