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Robert Healy (journalist)

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Robert L. Healy (July 2, 1925 – June 5, 2010) was an American journalist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

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Career

In the early 1940s, Healy started his career as a copy boy working for The Boston Globe and eventually worked his way up to becoming the executive editor. He worked as an editor from 1969 to 1979. His responsibility included helping with the paper's daily operation. He was also the Washington Bureau Chief of The Boston Globe. Healy was a World War II veteran and covered the Vietnam War. His work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. Healy also wrote a column for many years called, Political Circuit.[1]

Healy was credited for disarming Sirhan Sirhan with kicking the gun out of his hands shortly after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

In 1962, Healy nearly ended Edward M. Kennedy's first United States Senate campaign. Healy released information that the candidate was expelled as an undergraduate from Harvard for cheating on an exam.[1]

Awards and honors

Healy was a part of a team with The Boston Globe that won its first Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. They won the prize from their work on the Boston Municipal Court Judge Francis X. Morrissey's nomination to federal bench.[1]

Family

Healy's father worked for The Boston Globe for over 50 years as a mailer. Healy was married to Janet Rush and they had 8 children and 17 grandchildren. However that marriage ended in a divorce,. He later wed Mary Healy and they were married for 32 years.[1]

Death

Healy died from a stroke on June 5, 2010, at his home in Jupiter, Florida. He was 84.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Shapiro, Rees (June 8, 2010). "Boston Globe political journalist Robert L. Healy dies at 84". The Washington Post. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  2. ^ Feeney, Mark (June 7, 2010). "Robert L. Healy, at 84; Globe editor, columnist, political insider". The Boston Globe.

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