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Theo Wilson was a reporter best known for her coverage of high-profile court cases for the Daily News of New York. Among others, she reported on the trials of Sam Sheppard, Patty Hearst, Sirhan Sirhan, Charles Manson, Jack Ruby, Angela Davis, David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz and Claus von Bulow.[1]
She was born in New York City as Theodora Nadelstein on May 22, 1917. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, she was hired by the Evansville Press in Indiana. After working in Evansville, she moved to Indianapolis to marry television newscaster Bob Wilson and got a job on the Indianapolis Times. She later worked at the News Leader in Richmond, Virginia, at the Associated Press bureau in Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Bulletin before she and her husband moved back to her hometown of New York in 1952 and she was hired at the Daily News.
She covered many major trials for the Daily News, with enough of them taking place in California that the paper suggested she open a West Coast bureau. One problem that arose for her in Southern California was that like many New Yorkers, she did not drive. In 1976, when a school bus driver and the 26 children in his care were kidnapped in a small town 200 miles north of Los Angeles, she hailed a taxi to take her there.[2]
Her memoir, Headline Justice, was published in 1996. She died on Jan. 17, 1997, from a cerebral hemorrhage.
Theo Wilson Square, an intersection in the Hollywood Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles where she lived for 25 years, was commemorated in 1997.[3]
References
- ^ Indiana University School of Journalism. "Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame". indianajournalismhof.org. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ "Join us!". jaws.org. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ "Intersection Named for Journalist Theo Wilson - Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. 1997-08-09. Retrieved 2014-02-04.