Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 10 · column 4 of 5 · from the scan, no model involved
Carroll Kilpatrick
Former White House Reporter
Carroll Kilpatrick died Saturday, March 24,1984, at his home near Amissville after suffering a heart attack. He was 70.
The Washington Post’s White House reporter during 16 years that included the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, Mr. Kilpatrick was remembered by friends and colleagues at the newspaper as an outstanding journalist who while holding what was widely regarded as the best assignment at one of the country’s most important papers, remained uncommonly friendly and helpfill to inexperienced reporters.
Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Company, Inc., was quoted as saying, “Carroll Kilpatrick was one of the most distinguished reporters who ever wrote for The Poet. He was the ultimate . professional, loyal to high standards of journalism and to the paper. He was gentle, fair, balanced, but toughminded and skeptical. He covered and knew a succession of presidents, but never lost his own sense of modest perspective, gentle humor and consideration for others.”
Benjamin C. Bradlee, Post executive editor, said, “He set an example of what a good journalist should be.”
In an editorial in Sunday’s Post, Carroll Kilpatrick was described as “one of a group of notable American journalists who came of age 50 years ago in quiet places in this country and found their ways to the wars, revolutions and other upheavals — on foreign shores and native shores, too — that were transforming the historical landscape almost beyond recognition. He was of that generation of journalists that brought education and a certain scholarly bent to a profession that, while it had its achievers with and without college degrees, was still not considered a place where thoughtful people ought normally to go. ”
His readers knew him, the editorial continual, as “an objective, wise reader of character and recorder of events with a sure touch for the analytical dimension arising from his lifelong study of American history. His sources knew him as a thorough, fair-minded, reliable, unruffled journalist who did not play favorites or
76.7%