Guthman, who struggled against the complications of amyloidosis, a rare disease that involves abnormal accumulation of proteins in tissues and organs, died on Sunday at his home in Pacific Palisades
Edwin O. Guthman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose aggressive coverage of the Watergate scandal during the 1970's earned him the enmity of Richard Nixon, died at 89 years of age, reported today the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
Guthman, who struggled against the complications of amyloidosis, a rare disease that involves abnormal accumulation of proteins in tissues and organs, died on Sunday at his home in Pacific Palisades, pointed out the rotation.
The journalist, who also has long been a professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and a founding member of the Ethics Commission of the City of Los Angeles, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1950, early in his career, prove the innocence of a victim of McCarthyism.
He awarded the Pulitzer for his stories in The Seattle Times on anti-Americanism Committee activation of the Washington Legislature. His articles cleared a professor at the University of Washington into allegations that he was a communist activist.
During a brief parenthesis away from journalism, he worked for Robert F. Kennedy as a spokesman for the Justice Department from 1961 to 1965 and became his confidante.
Guthman was chief information officer of the national daily Los Angeles Times from 1965 to 1977, and subsequently served for a decade as editor of the editorial page of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In 1971, Guthman occupied the third place of a list of 20 names of political opponents marked to be harassed in a memorandum sent by Charles Colson, assistant to the president Richard Nixon, also the presidential assistant John Dean.
The list came to light in congressional hearings on the Watergate case.
Guthman was a journalism professor and lecturer at USC from 1987 until his retirement last year. In the 1990's was a commissioner founder and chairman of the Committee on Ethics of the City of Los Angeles.
He also was one of three outside experts who reviewed and harshly criticized the attack by federal forces to the complex of davidiana Adventist sect on the outskirts of Waco, Texas, where some 80 people died.
Guthman was born on August 11, 1919 in Seattle, studied at the University of Washington and worked as a reporter for the Seattle Star before being enrolled to fight in World War II. He served in North Africa and Italy, was wounded and received the Purple Heart and Silver Star.
He is survived by three sons, one daughter and five grandchildren.
