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American journalist
James Grifing Lucas
(June 24, 1915 ? July 22, 1971) was a
war correspondent
for
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
who won a 1954
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
[1]
"for his notable front-line human interest reporting of the
Korean War
, the cease-fire and the
prisoner-of-war
exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent." He also reported on the
Vietnam War
and wrote a book about his experiences,
Dateline: Vietnam
.
Born in
Checotah, Oklahoma
, the son of Jim Bob Lucas, Jr. and Effie Lincoln Griffing, he began his journalism career as the editor of his high school newspaper. Lucas attended the
University of Missouri
before going to work for the
Muskogee Phoenix
as a feature writer. He also worked in broadcasting for
KBIX
in
Muskogee
and for the
Tulsa Tribune
. During
World War II
, Lucas became a combat correspondent with the
Marines
, and began his association with Scripps-Howard before the end of the war. At the
Battle of Tarawa
, he was listed as killed in action for three days. For Lucas' vivid descriptions of that battle, he was awarded the 1943
National Headliners Award
.
He was the first recipient of the
Ernie Pyle
Memorial Award,
[2]
and the first person to receive it twice:
[3]
first for his 1953 reporting on the
Korean War
,
[2]
and again for his 1964 reporting on the
Vietnam War
.
[4]
Lucas also was awarded a
Bronze Star
and a
Presidential Unit Citation
for his Marine service. The Virginia Chapter of the United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association is named the Jim G. Lucas Chapter.
He remained single all his life and died of abdominal cancer in Washington, DC.
References
[
edit
]
- ^
Heinz-Dietrich Fischer; Erika J. Fischer (1987).
International Reporting 1928-1985: From the Activities of the League of Nations to present-day Global Problems
. Walter de Gruyter. p. 143.
ISBN
978-3-11-097232-0
.
Excerpts available
at
Google Books
.
- ^
a
b
"Ernie Pyle Award Goes To Writer Jim Lucas"
.
The Pittsburgh Press
. Vol. 70, no. 190 (Home ed.).
Scripps-Howard Service
. December 31, 1953. p. 2
. Retrieved
March 15,
2019
– via
Newspapers.com
.
- ^
"Jim Lucas ? Again!"
.
The Pittsburgh Press
. Vol. 81, no. 179 (Final ed.). December 21, 1964. p. 22
. Retrieved
March 15,
2019
– via
Newspapers.com
.
- ^
"Jim Lucas Wins Pyle Award Again"
.
The Pittsburgh Press
. Vol. 81, no. 179 (Final ed.).
Scripps-Howard Service
. December 21, 1964. pp. 1, 6
. Retrieved
March 15,
2019
– via
Newspapers.com
.
- Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999),
Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners
(illustrated ed.),
Greenwood Publishing Group
,
ISBN
1-57356-111-8
- Lucas, Jim G. (1966),
Dateline: Vietnam
, New York: Award House,
ISBN
1-125-20139-8
- Roth, Mitchel P.;
Olson, James Stuart
(1997),
Historical dictionary of war journalism
(illustrated ed.), Westport, CT.: Greenwood Publishing Group,
ISBN
0-313-29171-3
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