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Jackson Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 – December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 546 - Gothic War (535–554: The Ostrogoths of King Totila Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. American media redirects here For the publisher of the same name see American Media (publisher. Investigative journalism is a type of reporting in which reporters deeply investigate a topic of interest often involving crime Political corruption, or some other Scandal Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret American policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting has been awarded since 1948 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a major military conflict between India and Pakistan.

Jack Anderson was a key and often controversial figure in reporting on J. Edgar Hoover's apparent ties to the Mafia, Watergate, the John F. Kennedy assassination, the search for fugitive ex-Nazi officials in South America and the Savings and Loan scandal. WikipediaManual of Style (biographies#Postnominal initials The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra) is a Sicilian Criminal Secret society which is believed to have first developed in the mid-19th century The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's The assassination of John F Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday November 22 1963 in Dallas Texas Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly referred to as the S&L crisis) was the failure of 747 Savings and loan associations (S&Ls in the He discovered a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, and has also been credited for breaking the Iran-Contra affair, though he has said the scoop was "spiked" because he had become too close to President Ronald Reagan. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all AssassiNation is the sixth album by Krisiun, released in 2006 on Century Media. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13 1926 is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from December 1959 to December 1976 and then president until The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal which was revealed in November 1986 as a result of earlier events during the Reagan administration. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by Anderson was a crusader against corruption. Political corruption is the use of governmental powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain Henry Kissinger once described him as "the most dangerous man in America. Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923) is a German -born American bureaucrat diplomat and 1973 "

Anderson was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1986. Parkinson's disease (also known as Parkinson disease or PD) is a degenerative disorder of the Central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer's Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) In July 2004, at the age of 81, Anderson retired from his syndicated column, "Washington Merry-Go-Round. July 2004: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September " He died of complications from Parkinson's disease, survived by his wife, Olivia, and nine children.

A few months after his death, the FBI attempted to gain access to his files as part of the AIPAC case on the grounds that the information could hurt U. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( AIPAC) is an American Lobbying group that advocates for pro- Israel policies to the Congress and S. government interests.

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Early life and career

Anderson was born in Long Beach, California, to a Mormon family of Swedish-Danish descent. Long Beach is a city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific coast The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the fourth largest Christian denomination in the United States and the largest and most well-known The term Dane may refer to People with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity whether living in Denmark, emigrants or the descendants of emigrants He grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake City is the Capital and the most populous city of the U He served two years as a missionary in the church's Southern States Mission. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church is one of the most active modern practitioners of Missionary work with over 50000 full-time missionaries This article is about a geographical administrative area within the LDS Church . His writing career began at his local newspaper, The Murray Eagle. He joined The Salt Lake Tribune in 1940, where his muckraking exploits included infiltrating polygamous Mormon fundamentalist sects. The Salt Lake Tribune is the largest-circulated daily newspaper in the U Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For other meanings see Muckraker (disambiguation The term muckraker most associated with a group of American investigative reporters Mormon fundamentalism (also called fundamentalist Mormonism) is a belief in the validity of selected fundamental aspects of Mormonism as taught and He served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II in China, where he reportedly fought the Japanese alongside Chinese guerrillas and worked on the Shanghai edition of Stars and Stripes. The United States Armed Forces are the overall unified military forces of the United States World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES The Imperial Japanese Army ( IJA) ( Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國陸軍 Shinjitai: ja 大日本帝国陸軍 Romaji: Dai-Nippon Teikoku Guerrilla warfare is the unconventional warfare and combat with which a small group of combatants use mobile tactics (ambushes raids etc Shanghai ( 上[[wikt 海|海]] is the largest city in China in terms of population and one of the largest urban areas in the world with over 20 million Stars and Stripes is the Newspaper published for the United States Armed Forces overseas

After a stint as a war correspondent during 1945, he was hired by Drew Pearson for the staff of his column, the "Merry-Go-Round," which Anderson took over after Pearson's death in 1969. A war correspondent is a Journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war zone. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Andrew Russell Pearson ( December 13, 1897 &ndash September 1, 1969) known professionally as Drew Pearson and born in Evanston Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In its heyday, Anderson's column was the most influential and widely read in the U. S. ; published in nearly a thousand newspapers, he reached an audience of 40 million.

He co-founded Citizens Against Government Waste with J. Peter Grace in 1984. Citizens Against Government Waste ( CAGW) is 501(c(3 Non-profit organization in the United States. J Peter Grace (1913 - 1995 was a multimillionaire American industrialist and conglomerateur of Irish Catholic extraction

Muckraker

Anderson feuded with former FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover in the 1950s, when he exposed the scope of the Mafia, a threat that Hoover had long downplayed. WikipediaManual of Style (biographies#Postnominal initials Hoover's retaliation and continual harassment lasted into the 1970s. Hoover once described Anderson as "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures. "[1]

Anderson had the temerity to investigate the man who had been (often illegally) investigating all kinds of citizens. Anderson told his staff, "Let's do to Hoover what he does to others. "[2] Anderson's investigations were a tipping point in the attitude of the public and the press towards Hoover. Prior to Anderson's exposés few people of stature had dared to publicly criticize Hoover. After Anderson, many followed suit, and the man who had been the public persona of wonderful law enforcement became exposed for not only his huge and negligent failures like organized crime and civil rights but also his methods, many of which were illegal. Anderson's courage started the process.

Anderson grew close to Joseph McCarthy, and the two exchanged information from sources, but when Pearson went after McCarthy, Anderson reluctantly followed at first, then actively assisted with the eventual downfall of his one-time friend. Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14 1908 – May 2 1957 was an American politician who served as a Republican U

In the mid-1960s, Anderson exposed the corruption of Senator Thomas J. Dodd, which could well have earned him a Pulitzer, as could his finding of a memo by an ITT executive admitting the company paid off Richard Nixon's campaign to stymie anti-trust prosecution. Thomas Joseph Dodd ( May 15 1907 – May 24 1971) was a United States Senator and Representative from Connecticut His reporting on Nixon earned him a place on the master list of Nixon political opponents. A master list of Nixon political opponents was compiled to supplement the original Nixon's Enemies List of 20 key people considered opponents of President Richard

Anderson collaborated with Pearson on "The Case Against Congress," published in 1969.

In 1972, in an overlooked nadir of American political history, Anderson was the target of an aborted assassination plot in the White House. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The nadir (from Arabic ندير nadeer نظير nathir, "opposite" is the astronomical term for the point directly Two Nixon administration conspirators admitted under oath they plotted to poison Anderson on orders from White House aide Jeb Magruder. An oath (from Anglo-Saxon āð, also called plight) is either a Promise or a Statement of Fact calling In the context of Biology, poisons are substances that can cause damage, Illness, or Death to Organisms usually by Jeb Stuart Magruder (born November 5, 1934, New York City) was the second official in the administration of President Richard Nixon (the [3] White House "plumbers" G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt met with a CIA operative to discuss the possibilities, including drugging Anderson with LSD, poisoning his aspirin bottle, or staging a fatal mugging. George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for the White House Plumbers unit that existed during several years of Everette Howard Hunt Jr ( October 9 1918 – January 23 2007) was an American Author and spy. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all [4] The conspirators were never ordered to proceed, and the plot aborted, when the plotters were arrested as a result of the Watergate break-in. The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's Nixon had long been angry with Anderson, blaming the columnist for his loss of the 1960 presidential election, because of an election-eve story about a secret loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon's brother. The United States presidential election of 1960 marked the end of Dwight D Howard Robard Hughes Jr (December 24 1905 – April 5 1976 was an American Aviator, Industrialist, Film producer / director, Philanthropist

According to the family jewels documents, in 1974, during the Indo-Pakistani War, the director of the CIA, Richard Helms, put Anderson under tap. The Family Jewels is the informal name used to refer to a set of reports that detail activities conducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a major military conflict between India and Pakistan. Richard McGarrah Helms ( March 30, 1913 &ndash October 23, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI from 1966 to 1973 Jack Anderson had written two articles on assassination attempts on Castro through John Roselli. There is also a professional wrestler named John Roselli John "Handsome Johnny" Roselli (sometimes spelled Rosselli [5]

Anderson's unorthodox methods of obtaining news stories were influenced by his Mormon faith, viewing investigative reporting as a noble calling from God. Faith is a Belief in the trustworthiness of an Idea. Formal usage of the word "faith" is usually reserved for concepts of Religion, as in God is the principal or sole Deity in Religions and other belief systems that worship one deity.

Among Anderson's "legmen" — reporters who actually went out into the field and gathered the information, forwarding it on to writers such as Anderson — was Brit Hume, later a reporter for ABC News and Washington managing editor for Fox News Channel. Alexander Britton "Brit" Hume Sr (born June 22, 1943) is the Washington D This article is about the American news organization See also ABC News (disambiguation ABC News is a division of American

Anderson remained a target of FBI investigation even after his death. In February 2006, the FBI contacted Anderson's family to obtain his files and search for classified documents. [6] The FBI agents claimed to be looking for documents pertaining to American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as part of an espionage investigation. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( AIPAC) is an American Lobbying group that advocates for pro- Israel policies to the Congress and In November 2006, the FBI quietly gave up its pursuit of the archive. The archive, as revealed in The Chronicle of Higher Education, contains Anderson's CIA file, along with information about prominent public figures such as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Dodd, and J. The Chronicle of Higher Education is a Newspaper that represents a source of news information and jobs for college and university faculty and administration Edgar Hoover. [7]

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  1. ^ Bennett, Brian and Thompson, Mark (May 2006). Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) John Michael Crichton, ˈkraɪtən, (born October 23 1942 is an American author Film producer, Film director, Medical doctor, and Television producer Rising Sun is a 1992 internationally best-selling Novel by Michael Crichton about a Murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Mark Feldstein (1937 – October 2001 was an American Artist and Photographer best known for his large format photography of the streetlife and Architecture Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Richard Behar is an award-winning Investigative journalist who has written on the staffs of leading magazines including Forbes, Time Gary Webb ( August 31, 1955 &ndash December 10, 2004) was a prize-winning American Investigative journalist. "A Reporter's Last Battle". Time (May 1, 2006): 29. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.  
  2. ^ Eigen's Political & Historical Quotations
  3. ^ Feldstein, Mark. "The Last Muckraker", The Washington Post, July 28, 2004. Events 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of Treason. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Accessed April 2, 2008. Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
  4. ^ Liddy, G Gordon (1996). Will. St. Martins Press, 208-211. .  
  5. ^ Memo of conversation, January 3, 1975, between President Gerald Ford, William Colby, etc. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President William Egan Colby ( January 4, 1920 – April 27, 1996) spent a career in Intelligence for the United States culminating in holding , made available by the National Security Archive. The National Security Archive is a 501(c(3 non-governmental non-profit research and archival institution located within The George Washington University in
  6. ^ Carlson, Scott (April 2006). "George Washington U. to Receive Jack Anderson Papers -- but FBI Wants to See Them First". Chronicle of Higher Education (April 11, 2006). Events 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.  
  7. ^ Carlson, Scott (March 2007). "In Jack Anderson's Papers, a Hidden History of Washington". Chronicle of Higher Education (March 16, 2007). Events 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.  

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