They had four children before divorcing in 1978.Ĭarter later married Patricia M. He graduated from Princeton University in 1953 and married Margaret Ainsworth Wolfe. Hodding Carter III attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire before graduating from Greenville High School in 1953.
Another brother, Thomas Hennen Carter, died at 19. His brother Philip Dutarte Carter, reported for Newsweek and served as publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times and Vieux Carré Courier as well as financier of Gambit, a New Orleans weekly. His mother, from a prominent New Orleans family, was a feature writer and editor who recalled sitting at home with a shotgun across her lap after receiving threats from the Ku Klux Klan.Ĭarter was the oldest of three sons. treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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He also won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946, for a series of editorials critical of U.S. His father's editorials about social and economic intolerance earned him a national reputation and undying enmity and threats from white supremacists. They moved to Greenville, Mississippi, recruited by a group of community leaders to start a weekly newspaper that evolved into the Delta Democrat-Times. William Hodding Carter III was born April 7, 1935, in New Orleans, to William Hodding Carter Jr. He wrote two books, “The Reagan Years” and “The South Strikes Back.”Ĭarter, an ex-Marine who exercised regularly, underwent surgery in 2012 to have a pacemaker installed to help control an irregular heart rhythm. Knight Foundation, based in Miami, Florida.Īfter leaving the foundation, he began teaching leadership and public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006. In 1998 he became president of the John S. Knight Professor of Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland. He served twice on the steering committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.Ĭarter later was named the John S. He also wrote op-ed columns for the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers. Murrow Award for documentaries.Ĭarter appeared as a panelist, moderator or news anchor at ABC, BBC, NBC, CNN and PBS. When Ronald Reagan was elected to the White House in 1980, Carter returned to journalism as president of MainStreet, a television production company specializing in public affairs programs that earned him four national Emmy Awards and the Edward R. It was in this role that he was seen on television news during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Carter had been co-chair of the Loyalist Democrats, a racially diverse group that won a credentials fight at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, unseating the all-white delegation by Mississippi's governor, John Bell Williams.Ĭarter’s campaign work in 1976 for Jimmy Carter, no relation, helped secure him a job as assistant secretary of state for public affairs.
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