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Published on Tuesday, September 02, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
Edwin O. Guthman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the infamous "enemies list" prepared by aides of President Richard Nixon and served as press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy, has died. He was 89.
Guthman, who suffered from a rare blood disease called amyloidosis, died Sunday at his Pacific Palisades home, said Bryce Nelson, a family spokesman.
Born Aug. 11, 1919, in Seattle, Guthman attended the University of Washington and worked as a reporter for the Seattle Star before he was drafted in World War II. He was an Army platoon leader in North Africa and Italy, was wounded and received the Purple Heart and the Silver Star.
After the war, he rejoined the Star, then became a reporter for The Seattle Times. In 1950, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. His stories investigated the state Legislature's Un-American Activities Committee and cleared a University of Washington professor of allegations that he was a communist supporter
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