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Barry Bingham, Sr.

Job title
editor-in-chief and president
First name
Barry
Last name
Bingham Sr.
Years
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Barry Bingham Sr. Is Dead at 82; Louisville Newspapers' Publisher

By Alex Jones

August 16, 1988

Barry Bingham Sr., whose newspapers in Louisville, Ky., were leading liberal voices in the South, for decades, died yesterday at his Louisville home. He was 82 years old and had been undergoing treatment for cancer.

Employer
Louisville Courier-Journal
Ordering weight
1

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For their successful campaign against corruption, gambling and vice in their home city and the achievement of sweeping civic reforms in the face of political pressure and threats of violence. By their stalwart leadership of the forces of good government, these newspapers upheld the best tradition of a free press.
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William Seaman

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For his dramatic photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street.
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For a series of articles that focused public notice on deplorable conditions in a Florida migrant labor camp, resulted in the provision of generous assistance for the 4,000 stranded workers in the camp, and thereby called attention to the national problem presented by 1,500,000 migratory laborers.
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John LaMontaine

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First performed in Washington, D.C. by the National Symphony Orchestra on November 25, 1958.
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Categories: Music
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John Harold Brislin

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For displaying courage, initiative and resourcefulness in his effective four-year campaign to halt labor violence in his home city, as a result of which ten corrupt union officials were sent to jail and a local union was embolden to clean out racketeering elements.
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Scranton (PA) Tribune and Scrantonian

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Citation
For her comprehensive year-long coverage of the integration crisis in Virginia which demonstrated admirable qualities of accuracy, speed and the ability to interpret the news under deadline pressure in the course of a difficult and taxing assignment.
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Location
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Publication
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Citation
For their exclusive series of articles disclosing the brutality of the Batista government in Cuba long before its downfall and forecasting the triumph of the revolutionary party led by Fidel Castro.
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Categories: International Reporting
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