William Kinsey Hutchinson

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William Kinsey "Bill" Hutchinson (June 27, 1896 – May 25, 1958) was friends with presidents, legislators, cabinet members, and other U.S. government diplomats and officials. Between 1913 and 1920 William (Bill) worked as a reporter for a Reading, Pennsylvania newspaper. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1920 and started working as a reporter for the International News Service (INS). As an INS reporter, he covered the John T. Scopes Trial, often been called the Scopes Monkey Trial, in Dayton, Tennessee and on July 24, 1925 he was the first reporter to file the dispatch stating the outcome of the trial.

Bill also covered the national political conventions and events in the Capitol. In 1939 he was the Bureau Chief of the International News Service in Washington, D.C.. In late 1949, during a Hearts (game), FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Bill came up with the idea for a list of names, photographs, and descriptions of the ten worst criminals the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had. On March 14, 1950, the list was compiled and distributed as the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list.

Following Charles Lindbergh's Transatlantic solo flight and return to the United States in 1927 Lindbergh gave his flight jacket to Bill. Bill wore this flight jacket on many outings and was with him until his death. The jacket was then willed to his brother Herb. After Herb's death in 1986, the condition of Lindbergh’s flight jacket was so deteriorated it was mistakenly thrown out thinking the jacket had no historical value.

He was a member of the District of Columbia bar and wrote two books, Life and Works of William E. Borah and Ten Days that Changed the World, the latter being an account of the ten days between the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Japan and the surrender of Japan. For many years he was own and the Vice President of the Washington Redskins football team. Bill received numerous awards from the Air Force, Army, and Navy for patriotic service. He was a World War I veteran. He died the day after the announcement of the merger of the International News Service with the United Press International. On May 26, 1958 the funeral was held with Vice President Richard Nixon being one of the pallbearers.