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
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The Watergate scandal was one of the most important news stories that Whitten covered in his career (here, Watergate complex, Washington, D.C.)
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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)
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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)
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Whitten translated into English the poems of Charles Baudelaire (here, photo by Étienne Carjat, 1863)
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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
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- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ 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.
