A. B. MacDonald

A. B. MacDonald (born c. 1861;[1] date of death unknown) was a journalist for the Kansas City Star who won a Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1931 for "his work in connection with a murder in Amarillo, Texas."[2] On that assignment, he "solved a murder mystery . . . and brought a guilty man to justice."[3]

Earlier, he had been "sent to Oklahoma to cover the chase of Harry Starr, a bandit who rode safely through a surrounding posse because his sweetheart was on the horse with him and the possemen were too gallant to shoot."[3]

After he was assigned to interview evangelist Billy Sunday, he took a leave from the Star to go to New York to work as Sunday's publicity agent.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Zieman, Mark (2011). "It's time to drop the idea of 'going it alone'". tae.asne.org. Retrieved 3 March 2011. Legendary investigative journalist A.B. Macdonald, then 69 years old.
  2. ↑ "1931 winners". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 Lee Shippey, Luckiest Man Alive, Los Angeles, Westernlore Press (1959), page 36


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