Jack Tinsley
Male, Deceased Person
1934 – 2004
Who was Jack Tinsley?
Jack B. Tinsley was executive editor from 1975 to 1986 of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, leading the Fort Worth, Texas newspaper to two Pulitzer Prizes.
Hailing from Huntington, Texas, Tinsley attended Sam Houston State Teachers College. Shortly after graduation, he appeared as an actor in the movie 4D Man, and that same year he began as a reporter at the Star-Telegram. During his first five years of his career as a reporter, he covered the Kennedy assassination in 1963 and the 1964 slayings of three Civil Rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
He became Sunday editor in 1966, then assistant managing editor of new technology and assistant to the editor before settling in as executive editor in 1975. He spent 15 months as editor of a Southwestern Bell in-house publication but otherwise continued with the Star-Telegram until his retirement in December 2000 as vice president for community affairs.
In 2004, Tinsley died in Fort Worth of complications from heart surgery.
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- Born
- Dec 14, 1934
- Education
- Sam Houston State University
- Died
- Oct 12, 2004
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on July 23, 2013
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