Background
Tuohy, William was born on October 1, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of John Marshall and Lolita (Klaus) Tuohy.
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Tuohy, William was born on October 1, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of John Marshall and Lolita (Klaus) Tuohy.
He returned to Illinois and studied English at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, graduating from Northwestern University in 1951.
In 1945 he joined the United States. Navy, and served for two years aboard a submarine rescue vessel, the United States Ship Florikan, in the Pacific. In 1947, and after leaving the navy, Tuohy was injured in a train wreck, and as a result with a pronounced limp for the rest of his life. The following year he went to work at the San Francisco Chronicle as a copy boy.
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Tuohy gained promotion to reporter and, eventually, editor on the city desk.
He joined Newsweek magazine in 1959, covering the 1964 presidential campaign and briefly working as the assistant national editors Tuohy was appointed Newsweek"s foreign correspondent in Saigon in 1965, just as the United States was just entering the Vietnam War.
He was there when the United States began bombing North Vietnam, and when the first United States combat troops came ashore at Da Nang. In 1966 Tuohy joined the Los Angeles Times as the Saigon Bureau Chief.
Tuohy had a lengthy career as a foreign correspondent.
He served as Beirut Bureau Chief from 1968 to 1973, Rome Bureau Chief from 1973 to 1977, London Bureau Chief from 1977 to 1985, Bonn Bureau Chief from 1985 to 1990 and European Security Correspondent from 1990 to 1995. In addition to postings as bureau chief, he covered the Fall of Saigon, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, The Troubles of Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War. In 1979, when fellow Los Angeles Times correspondent Joe Alex Morris Junior. was killed in the early days of the Iranian Revolution, Tuohy hired a Learjet and flew into Tehran airport, even though the airport was closed to traffic and occupied by the Revolutionary Guards.
After negotiations, he received Morris"s body and flew back to the United States, returning the body to Morris"s family.
In 1989, he published a memoir, Dangerous Company, Inside the World’s Hottest Trouble Spots with a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Correspondent. Tuohy retired in 1995.
After retiring, Tuohy wrote two books of naval history. His second book, America"s Fighting Admirals: Winning the War at Sea in World World War II was published in 2007.
The book told the story of the war from the perspective of Navy Admirals such as Marc Mitscher, the commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force and John South. McCain, Senior
Tuohy died December 31, 2009 following open-heart surgery in Santa Monica, California. Tuohy married three times. He and Johanna were divorced in 1989.
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946.
Married Mary Ellyn Dufek, 1955 (divorced). Married Johanna Iselin, 1964 (divorced). 1 child, Cyril Iselin.
Married Rose Marie Wheeler, 1998.