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Jack Anderson (Jackson Northman Anderson), (born October 19, 1922, Long Beach, California), is a former United State newspaper columnist, and is considered one of the fathers of investigative reporting. Anderson won a 1972 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on secret relations between the US and Pakistan.
Anderson was a key, and often controversial, figure in reporting on J. Edgar Hoover's apparent ties to the Mafia, the Watergate scandal, the Kennedy assassination, the search for Nazis in South America, and the Savings and Loan scandal. Anderson even discovered a CIA plot to kill Fidel Castro. Anderson has also been credited for breaking the Iran arms for hostages scandal, though he has said the scoop was spiked because he had become too close to President Ronald Reagan. Anderson was a crusader against corruption, dedicated to exposing fraud, waste and abuse. At the age of 81, in July, 2004, Anderson retired from his nationally syndicated column, the 'Washington Merry-Go-Round'.
Early life and career
Anderson was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, and served two years as a Mormon missionary. His writing career began at his local newspaper, The Murray Eagle. He joined the Salt Lake Tribune in 1940, where his muckraking exploits included infiltrating polygamous sects. He served in the US military during World War II in China, where he also worked on the Shanghai edition of Stars and Stripes.
After a stint as a war correspondent during 1945, he was hired by Drew Pearson for the staff of his column, the 'Merry-Go-Round', which Anderson took over after Pearson's death in 1969. In its heyday, Anderson's column was the most influential and widely read in the US; published in nearly a thousand newspapers, he reached an audience of 40 million.
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