John Wallach served as foreign editor and diplomatic correspondent for Hearst newspapers for nearly 30-years, traveling to more than 70 countries with five different Presidents, Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan.
17 Facts About John Wallach
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John Wallach was the son of German Jews, Paul and Edith John Wallach, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1941, after the government took possession of their family's clothing factory.
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John Wallach died of lung cancer in New York City; he was survived by his wife, Janet, and two sons.
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John Wallach was the son of German Jews, Paul and Edith John Wallach, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1941, after the government took possession of their family's clothing factory.
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John Wallach attended Scarsdale High School, in New York, graduating in 1960.
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John Wallach enrolled in theatre studies at New York University but only attended the school for a term.
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John Wallach obtained his master's degree from the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, New York.
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John Wallach was awarded a teaching fellowship by the Woodrow Wilson National Foundation in 1984, and was a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 1998.
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John Wallach received an honorary doctorate from Middlebury in 1999 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Maine.
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John Wallach served as foreign editor and diplomatic correspondent for Hearst Newspapers, joining the Washington office in 1968; he served with the organization until 1995.
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In 1972, John Wallach was elected as president of the State Department Correspondents Association, representing over 400 correspondents in 30 countries.
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John Wallach was the first Visiting Affairs Correspondent for the BBC in 1980.
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In 1995, John Wallach retired from Hearst, in order to work full-time with Seeds of Peace.
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Later that same year, John Wallach gave a special address to a joint session of the Maine Legislature about the Seeds of Peace camp and how the lives of the teenagers changed as a result of the program.
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In 2002, John Wallach died of lung cancer in New York City; he was survived by his wife, Janet, and two sons.
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John Wallach was the recipient of multiple awards during his life, in recognition of his success as a journalist and humanitarian efforts.
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John Wallach was the recipient of the Edwin Hood Award for his foreign policy reporting in breaking the Iran-Contra story, three other Overseas Press Club awards, the B'nai Brith for exposing the plight of Soviet dissidents, and the 1978 Raymond Clapper Award for outstanding journalism, given by the White House Correspondents' Association.