Paul Henderson (journalist), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American journalist
Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1939
Date of Death: 07-Dec-2018
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Paul Henderson (journalist)
- Paul Henderson III (January 13, 1939 – December 7, 2018) was an American journalist and private investigator who won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1982 as a reporter for The Seattle Times. Henderson was born in Washington D.C., but moved to Beatrice, Nebraska as a young child.
- For high school and junior college, he went to Wentworth Military Academy and Junior College in Lexington, Missouri, graduating in 1959.
- After three years in the U.S.
- Army, he continued his education at Creighton University and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Henderson began his career as a journalist at the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil (1962–1966), before moving on to the Omaha World-Herald (1966–1967), and The Seattle Times (1967–1985).
- While working in the newsroom as an investigative reporter at The Seattle Times in 1981, Henderson took a call from a man named Steve Titus.
- Titus explained to Henderson that he was about to be sentenced for a sexual assault he did not commit.
- Henderson looked into the case and wrote a series of three stories entitled "One Man's Battle to Clear His Name, a story of rape, wrongful conviction and vindication", challenging the circumstantial evidence against Titus.
- When officials followed up on Henderson's leads, they found a man who resembled Titus and who eventually confessed to the crime.
- The report convinced a judge to reverse Titus' conviction.
- Henderson won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for his series.
- However, Titus, who had been an up-and-coming executive with a fast-food franchise with no more than a parking ticket on his record, had his career destroyed, and he died of a heart attack at age 36, just as he was on the verge of winning a major wrongful-conviction settlement. Motivated by his experience with the Titus case, Henderson left the Seattle Times in 1985 to become a private investigator.
- Since 1988, Henderson has been an investigator for Centurion Ministries, a small nonprofit organization based in Princeton, New Jersey dedicated to vindicating the wrongfully convicted.
- It has helped free more than 30 people. In addition to winning the Pulitzer, Henderson is also the winner of the C.B.
- Blethan Award (1977 and 1982), the Roy W.
- Howard Newspaper Award, Scripps-Howard Foundation (1982), and he was named an Outstanding Achiever by the American Academy of Achievement (1982). Henderson died on December 7, 2018 at the age of 79 after a battle with lung cancer.
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