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Don Whitehead (April 8, 1908 in Inman, Virginia - January 12, 1981) was an American journalist. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom. He won the 1950 George Polk Award for wire service reporting. He was awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, and 1953 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
Don Whitehead was an American journalist. Among his many awards were the Medal of Freedom, the 1950 George Polk Award for wire service reporting, the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, and the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
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Jan 14, 1981 · Don Whitehead, a war correspondent for The Associated Press who won two Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting for dispatches on the Korean War, died at his home in Knoxville, Tenn. on...
Apr 8, 2021 · Whitehead arrived in Cairo to cover the war in mid-October 1942. It was supposed to be a stopover on the way to India, but the AP decided to keep him in Egypt, assigning him to Gen. Bernard Montgomery’s Eighth Army in its desert fight against Rommel’s Afrika Korps.
Don Whitehead was born on 8 April 1908 in inman, Virginia. He was a writer, known for The FBI Story (1959), Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975) and The Twentieth Century (1957). He died on 12 January 1981 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
You'll read of the FBI's role in combating postwar crime as Don Whitehead reports on the kidnap murder of little Bobby Greenlease and the murder of a mother by her son high over a Colorado beet field when a plane fell carrying passengers and crew to their deaths.
