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Jack Dalton Wardlaw (March 28, 1937 — January 4, 2012), was an American journalist who was a political writer and head of the capital bureau in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, of the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune''. ==Career== Wardlaw was born in McComb in Pike County in southwestern Mississippi. He graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees〔 from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He was briefly the municipal government reporter at the ''Meridian Star'' in Meridian in eastern Mississippi and a police reporter for the City News Bureau in Chicago. In March 1961, he joined the staff in New Orleans of the since defunct afternoon daily, ''The States-Item'', for which he was over time a copy editor, assistant city editor, and political and judicial reporter. Wardlaw reported on the construction of the Louisiana Superdome and the sensational trial of Clay Shaw, a New Orleans businessman who was acquitted in what Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison had alleged to have been a conspiracy behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Wardlaw and fellow journalist Rosemary James, a native of South Carolina, co-authored ''Plot or Politics,'' a 1967 book which takes issue with the Garrison investigation.〔 Wardlaw won an Associated Press award for his story on the death of David Ferrie, one of the mysterious figures of the Garrison investigation. Wardlaw was named ''States-Item'' capital bureau chief in 1979. In 1980, he assumed the same position for ''The Times-Picayune'', a position which he held for the next twenty-two years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ed Anderson, "Former Times-Picayune political reporter, capital bureau chief Jack Wardlaw dies," January 6, 2012 )〕 Wardlaw investigated all four terms of Governor Edwin W. Edwards. In the third nonconsecutive term in 1984 Edwards and his brother, Marion Edwards, were indicted on federal charges dealing with the licensure of hospitals and nursing homes. The Edwards brothers were acquitted in a second trial after a hung jury occurred in the first case.〔 Though Edwards had often cited "that lyin' Jack Wardlaw" for Wardlaw's coverage and critical columns, upon Wardlaw's death, Edwards said, "He was a gentleman. As a journalist, he was very effective and very fair. He called things like he saw them."〔 Wardlaw also covered the 1973 Louisiana Constitutional Convention and the other governors of the era, Republicans David C. Treen, Buddy Roemer, and Murphy J. Foster, Jr.〔 Wardlaw's colleagues included well-known state journalists Iris Kelso and Bill Lynch, who in 1988 was appointed by Governor Roemer as the first ever state inspector general.〔''New Orleans Times-Picayune'', February 16, 2004〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Wardlaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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