Jack Wardlaw
| Jack Dalton Wardlow | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 28, 1937 McComb, Mississippi, USA |
| Died | January 4, 2012 (aged 74) Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Residence | Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Medill School of Journalism at |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1959–2002 |
| Spouse(s) |
(1) Ruby Wardlaw |
| Children |
Terry D. Wardlaw |
Medill School of Journalism at
(1) Ruby Wardlaw
Terry D. Wardlaw
Ruth Polk Bumgardner
Edward B. Polk
Jack Dalton Wardlaw (March 28, 1937 — January 4, 2012), was an American journalist who was a political writer and head of the capital bureau in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Wardlaw was born in McComb in Pike County in southwestern Mississippi. He graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He was briefly the municipal government reporter at the Meridian Star in Meridian in eastern Mississippi and a police reporter for the City News Bureau in Chicago. In March 1961, he joined the staff in New Orleans of the since defunct afternoon daily, The States-Item, for which he was over time a copy editor, assistant city editor, and political and judicial reporter. Wardlaw reported on the construction of the Louisiana Superdome and the sensational trial of Clay Shaw, a New Orleans businessman who was acquitted in what Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison had alleged to have been a conspiracy behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Wardlaw and fellow journalist Rosemary James, a native of South Carolina, co-authored Plot or Politics, a 1967 book which takes issue with the Garrison investigation. Wardlaw won an Associated Press award for his story on the death of David Ferrie, one of the mysterious figures of the Garrison investigation.
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