Nathan Green Caldwell was an American journalist who spent fifty years on the staff of the Nashville Tennessean.
13 Facts About Nat Caldwell
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Nat Caldwell was a co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1962.
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Nat Caldwell's mother managed to arrange "a grant or scholarship or something as a potential ministerial student" so he could start as a freshman at Southwestern at Memphis.
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Nat Caldwell joined the Nashville Tennessean in 1934; his first assignment at the Tennessean "covering the new alphabet agencies" formed by FDR.
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Nat Caldwell served in the US Navy during World War II.
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Nat Caldwell was a crusading reporter, for example, on behalf of public power and community development.
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In 1976, after Caldwell wrote an article challenging Mississippi businessman James F Hooper III's qualifications to serve on the TVA board, Hooper sued Caldwell, along with the Tennessean, East Tennessee Research Corp.
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Nat Caldwell studied Tennessee Valley Authority-style development in Israel and Arab nations, interviewed officials in several Middle Eastern cities, and noted the Iraqi consulate's refusal to give him a visa to visit Baghdad in the company of a United Nations mission on refugees.
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Nat Caldwell himself described a series of eight articles about "the migration of millions of black and poor white people out of the South as a consequence of the anticipated mechanization of Southern agriculture" as his "most significant" project.
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Nat Caldwell was inducted into the Tennessee Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2003.
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Nat Caldwell married Camilla Frances Johnson in 1936.
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Nat Caldwell died when his car went off a bridge into a lake near his home in Gallatin, Tennessee, on February 11,1985.
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Jack Amos, of Hendersonville, Tennessee, attempted to save Nat Caldwell after seeing his car go off the bridge.