Awards & Winners

William Lambert

Date of Birth 02-February-1920
Place of Birth Langford
(Marshall County, South Dakota)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as William G. Lambert
Profession Journalist
William G. Lambert, a native of Langford, South Dakota, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote for the Portland Oregonian, Life magazine and other publications. Called by one of his editors "the modern-day father of investigative journalism", Lambert forced the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas in 1969. His Life magazine story on Fortas won the George Polk Award for magazine reporting that year. Fortas, accused of having taken $20,000 from stock swindler Louis Wolfson in 1966, resigned nine days after Lambert's story appeared. Lambert and The New York Times reporter Wallace Turner shared the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in 1957 for their five-part series in the Portland Oregonian focusing on Dave Beck, president of the International Society of Teamsters, and exposing corruption in the union. Lambert and Turner were the first witnesses in the congressional investigation of Beck and the Teamsters. Lambert died on February 8, 1998, in Philadelphia of a respiratory ailment.

Awards by William Lambert

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1957


Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
([Local Reporting - No Edition Time] For their expose of vice and corruption in Portland involving some municipal officials and officers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, Western Conference. They fulfilled their assignments despite great handicaps and the risk of reprisal from lawless elements.)