Wallace Turner was an American journalist and government administrator.
12 Facts About Wallace Turner
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Wallace Turner was one of three brothers in the family.
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Wallace Turner was discharged from the Army due to his asthma, and he and his new wife moved to Oregon, his wife Pearl Burk's home state.
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In 1957, Wallace Turner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting along with fellow Oregonian reporter William Lambert.
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Wallace Turner even testified in 1957 before the US Senate's Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, commonly known as the McClellan Committee, concerning the corruption.
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Wallace Turner then went to Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship for a year after winning the Pulitzer.
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Wallace Turner left The Oregonian in 1959 to become the news director at Portland television station KPTV.
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Wallace Turner then left the station in 1961 to work as an Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the administration of President John F Kennedy.
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Wallace Turner served as an assistant secretary until 1962 when he became the press secretary to the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Abraham Ribicoff.
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Wallace Turner left San Francisco in 1985 to open The Times' new Seattle news bureau.
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Wallace Turner continued in that capacity until his retirement in 1988.
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Wallace Turner died on September 18,2010, in Springfield, Oregon, at the age of 89 from medical complications associated with old age.