Moon of the Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

Whitten's specific assignments included investigating the private lives of FBI Director J. Coverage by the Washington Merry-Go-Round included a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro and Nixon's secret foreign policy shift to Pakistan from India. Staff included Brit Hume (later a Fox News anchor) and Jon Lee Anderson (later staff writer for The New Yorker). President Lyndon Johnson in 1964)īy 1969, Whitten, now an investigative reporter, had worked for Washington Post and Hearst newspapers and joined the Washington Merry-Go-Round under Jack Anderson, following the death of Anderson's business partner and the column's founder, Drew Pearson. In the 1960s, Whitten worked for Jack Anderson, who took over the Washington Merry-Go-Round from founder Drew Pearson in 1969 (here, Pearson stands left with U.S.

Between 19, he worked for International News Service and United Press International and covered wars in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam. He then joined the Munich office of Radio Free Europe in 1951 (or 1952), where he worked until 1957. Whitten then moved to Mexico and again to Paris, continuing to try to be a writer, before shifting back to journalism in order to support his new family. Whitten worked for Radio Free Europe in Munich (here, showing before and after images of bomb damage to Munich's Altstadt during World War II) Returning to Lehigh, he changed his major to English and Journalism, became the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, and graduated magna cum laude in 1950. Army, and moved to Paris to become a poet. After three semesters he left school, served two years in the U.S. Whitten started at Lehigh University by majoring in civil engineering. 'From the time I was 18, I wanted to be a poet,' Whitten said later in life. He grew up in Washington, DC, and attended the Woodrow Wilson High School.

His father was an electrical engineer and executive with the manufacturer Graybar. Leslie Hunter Whitten, Jr., was born on February 21, 1928, in Jacksonville, Florida.

Moon of the Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten Jr.