Robert Wilson Ewing III | |
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Born | May 25, 1935 |
Died | March 27, 2007 Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, USA |
(aged 71)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Alabama |
Occupation | Newspaper executive; Sports and underwater photographer |
Spouse(s) | Divorced from Kathie Robinson Ewing |
Children |
Krista E. Wilson |
Parent(s) | Robert Wilson Ewing, II |
Krista E. Wilson
Robert Wilson Ewing III (May 25, 1935 – March 27, 2007) was a sports and underwater photographer for the Monroe News Star in Monroe, Louisiana. According to his obituary, Ewing performed free-lance work for National Geographic and the naturalist Jacques Cousteau. As the grandson of News Star founder Robert Wilson Ewing, I, he was a member of the newspaper board of directors.
He was born on May 25, 1935, and attended the public Neville High School in Monroe, Louisiana but graduated from a private school in New Jersey. He attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Ewing, I, bought the Monroe Morning World in 1930, from Clarence E. Faulk, Sr., who was also a founder of Delta Air Lines and the father of Ruston publisher, Clarence Faulk. Wilson Ewing, the son of Ewing, I, and the father of Ewing, III, was the editor and publisher of the Morning World from 1938 to 1952, when he died of a heart attack. Wilson Ewing briefly took the helm of the Shreveport Times after the death of his brother, John D. Ewing, Sr., who had been the Times publisher and editor since 1931. Both Wilson Ewing and John D. Ewing, Sr., died in 1952.