Les Whitten
Leslie Hunter "Les" Whitten Jr. (February 21, 1928 – December 1, 2017) was an American investigative reporter. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He worked at the Washington Merry-Go-Round under Jack Anderson, as well as novelist and translator of French poetry Baudelaire.[1] He was arrested by the FBI and was spied on by the CIA during his career.[2]
Whitten died in Adelphi, Maryland of sepsis on December 1, 2017 at the age of 89.[3][4][5]
Les Whitten Media
The Watergate scandal was one of the most important news stories that Whitten covered in his career (here, Watergate complex, Washington, D.C.)
Whitten worked for Radio Free Europe in Munich (here, showing before and after images of bomb damage to Munich's Altstadt during World War II)
In the 1960s, Whitten worked for Jack Anderson, who took over the Washington Merry-Go-Round from founder Drew Pearson in 1969 (here, Pearson stands left with U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in 1964)
Whitten translated into English the poems of Charles Baudelaire (here, photo by Étienne Carjat, 1863)
Whitten's The Progeny of the Adder (1965) appears on Stephen King's list of essential horror novels in his non-fiction book Danse Macabre (here, King in 2007)
References
- ↑ The Gale Group (2005), "Whitten, Leslie Hunter, Jr.", Writers Directory 2005, archived from the original on 2015-03-28, retrieved 2017-12-10.
- ↑ "Matches for Leslie Hunter "Les" Whitten, Jr". MyHeritage. Archived from the original on 2019-12-14. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
- ↑ Smith, Harrison (2 December 2017). Les Whitten, investigative reporter arrested by FBI and spied on by CIA, dies at 89. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/les-whitten-investigative-reporter-arrested-by-fbi-and-spied-on-by-cia-dies-at-89/2017/12/02/3feb4ee6-d7a2-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ↑ Smith, Harrison (7 December 2017). "Les Whitten, investigative reporter arrested by FBI and spied on by CIA, dies at 89". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/obituaries/les-whitten-muckraking-columnist-and-novelist-dies-at-89.html. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ↑ Hemingway, Mark (6 December 2017). The Washington Reporter Who Reinvented Horror and Science-Fiction. Weekly Standard. http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-washington-reporter-who-reinvented-horror-and-science-fiction/article/2010741. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
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