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Article: Obituaries.(Jack Anderson)(E. Cardon Walker)(Louis Aborn)(Link Wray)(Obituary)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- December 20, 2005
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Jack Anderson
WASHINGTON -- Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, muckraking columnist who struck fear into the hearts of corrupt and secretive politicians, died Saturday of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 83.
Anderson gave up his syndicated Washington Merry-Go-Round column in 2004 after Parkinson's disease left him too ill to continue. He had been hired by the column's founder, Drew Pearson, in 1947.
The column broke a string of big scandals, from Eisenhower assistant Sherman Adams taking a vicuna coat and other gifts from a wealthy industrialist in 1958 to the Reagan administration's secret arms-for-hostages deal with Iran ...