John Fetterman
Journalist, Award Winner
1920 – 1975
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Who was John Fetterman?
John Fetterman was an American journalist, a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal. He won the Pulitzer Prize for local, general, or spot-news reporting for his 1968 story "PFC Gibson Comes Home", about the death of a soldier in Vietnam and the return of his body. It focused on the young man's family in Knott County, Kentucky and the wider community. Fetterman also contributed to a Courier-Journal series on strip mining that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967.
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- Born
- 1920
Danville - Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Kentucky
- Lived in
- Louisville
- Danville
- Died
- 1975
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on July 23, 2013
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