Jack Anderson (columnist)

Jack Northman Anderson was an American newspaper columnist, syndicated by United Features Syndicate, considered one of the founders of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret U.S. policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. In addition to his newspaper career, Anderson also had a national radio show on the Mutual Broadcasting System, acted as Washington bureau chief of Parade magazine, and was a commentator on ABC-TV's Good Morning America for nine years.

19 October 1922

Born on the same birth day (19 October): Annie Golden • Arne Bendiksen • Atom Araullo • David Vann (writer) • Emma Bell Miles • Hiroshi Sakai • Joaquin Gage • Jostein Gulbrandsen • Kurt Schrader • LaSalle Ishii • Louis-José Houde • Michael Steele • Minoru Yasui • Suburban Legends • Takis Ikonomopoulos

Born in the same month (October 1922): Barbara Bel Geddes • Coleen Gray • Elena Mikhnenko • Grady Hatton • Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington • John Anderson (actor) • Léon Dion • Madelyn Dunham • Malcolm Baldrige Jr. • Nat Clifton • Olga Guillot