Jimmy B. Bedford

Male, Deceased Person

1927 – 1990

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Who was Jimmy B. Bedford?

Jimmy B. Bedford was the former head of the University of Alaska Fairbanks journalism department. He is also the author of Around the World on a Nickel. There is a Jimmy B. Bedford Memorial Scholarship set up in his honor. He was presented with the Howard Rock Award in 1977.

As a professor of journalism and photography, he was supportive of native Alaska writers: he wrote the foreword for the autobiography of Emily Ivanoff Brown.

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Born
Jun 10, 1927
Also known as
  • Jimmy Bedford
Died
1990

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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