William H. Lawrence

(1916-1972) born in Lincoln. White House correspondent for 20 years with New York Times, then a radio-TV news reporter, served as ABC News national affairs editor after that, recipient of 1964 George F. Peabody Award, a personal award for television news. Consult New York Times obituary, March 3, 1972, p. 42 and his autobiography, Six Presidents, Too Many Wars (Saturday Review Press, 1972).

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