Awards & Winners

Don Whitehead

Date of Birth 08-April-1908
Place of Birth Inman
(Wise County, Virginia, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Journalist, Writer, Author
Don Whitehead was an American journalist. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom. He won the 1950 George Polk Award for wire service reporting. He was awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, and 1952 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

Awards by Don Whitehead

Check all the awards nominated and won by Don Whitehead.

1953


Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
(For his article called 'The Great Deception,' dealing with the intricate arrangements by which the safety of President-elect Eisenhower was guarded enroute from Morningside Heights in New York to Korea.)

1951


Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
(For their reporting of the Korean War.)