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John Seigenthaler

American journalist, writer, and political figure (1927–2014)

This article is about the political editor. For his son, see John Seigenthaler (anchorman).

John Seigenthaler

Seigenthaler speaking in Nashville in 2005

Born

John Lawrence Seigenthaler


(1927-07-27)July 27, 1927

Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.

DiedJuly 11, 2014(2014-07-11) (aged 86)

Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.

Occupation(s)Journalist, writer
Years active1949–2014
Spouse

Dolores Watson

(m. 1955)​
ChildrenJohn Michael Seigenthaler

John Lawrence Seigenthaler (SEE-gən-thaw-lər; July 27, 1927 – July 11, 2014) was an American journalist, writer, and political figure. He was known as a prominent defender of First Amendment rights.[1][2]

Seigenthaler joined the Nashville newspaper The Tennessean in 1949, resigning in 1960 to act as Robert F. Kennedy's administrative assistant. He rejoined The Tennessean as editor in 1962, publisher in 1973, and chairman in 1982 before retiring

Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident

2005 editorial controversy on Wikipedia

On May 26, 2005, an unregistered editor created a hoax Wikipedia article about journalist John Seigenthaler.[1] The article falsely stated that Seigenthaler had been a suspect in the assassinations of U.S. presidentJohn F. Kennedy and U.S. attorney generalRobert F. Kennedy.

After the hoax was discovered and corrected later in September, Seigenthaler, a friend and aide to Robert Kennedy, wrote in USA Today describing the article as an "Internet character assassination".[2]

The incident raised questions about the reliability of Wikipedia and other websites with user-generated content that lack the legal accountability of traditional newspapers and published materials.[3] In a December 13, 2005, interview,[4] co-founder Jimmy Wales expressed his support for Wikipedia policy allowing articles to be edited by unregistered users, but announced plans to roll back their article creation privileges as part of a vandalism-control strategy.[4] The inc

Peter Siegenthaler

Senior Lecturer
Email:
ps30@txstate.edu

Curriculum Vitae

A graduate of Swarthmore College (BA 1984), the University of Pennsylvania (MA 1989), and the University of Texas at Austin (MA 1998, PhD 2004), Peter Siegenthaler specializes in the social, cultural, and political contexts for historic preservation and heritage tourism in postwar Japan. His PhD dissertation, “Looking to the Past, Looking to the Future: The Localization of Japanese Historic Preservation, 1950–1975,” investigates the origins of three local preservation movements in the 1950s and 1960s, to establish a historical basis for the sudden prominence of “townscape preservation” (machinami hozon) movements across Japan in the 1970s and since. His current research expands that project to look back at the role of the Allied Occupation in the refashioning of heritage preservation in Japan in the late 1940s and to look more deeply at the cultural and political dynamics that informed the promotion of historic preservation in smaller Japanese cities in the 1950s.

Dr. Siegenthaler began his teachin

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