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By Robert D. McFadden
New York Times
Eugene C. Patterson, the
Pulitzer Prize-winning editor
of the Atlanta Constitution
during the civil rights conflicts of the 1960s and later the
managing editor of the Washington Post and editor of the
St. Petersburg Times in Florida,
died
Saturday
in
St. Petersburg. He was 89.
The cause was complications of cancer, said George
Rahdert, Patterson’s lawyer
and longtime friend, who said
Patterson had been sick since
February.
In 41 years as a reporter,
editor and news executive,
Patterson, who won the 1967
Pulitzer for editorial columns,
was one of America’s most
highly regarded journalists —
a plain-talking, hard-driving
competitor known for fairness
and integrity as the nation
confronted racial turmoil,
divisions over the Vietnam
War and new ethical challenges in journalism.
Patterson succeeded the celebrated Ralph McGill as editor of the Constitution, and
from 1960 to 1968 was a voice
of conscience and progressive
politics on the editorial page.
He wrote thousands of columns, many of which
addressed white Southerners
directly, like letters from
home, and cumulatively painted a portrait of the South during the civil rights struggle.
Raised on a Georgia farm,
he worked at small-town
newspapers in Texas and
Georgia as a young man, and
although he moved up to wire
service jobs in New York and
London, he had been steeped
in the droll wit and downhome sociability of the South.
There were no simple solutions to the racial problems,
and he offered none. Instead,
he drew poignant scenes of
suffering and loss to condemn
violence and miscarriages of
justice. And he explored
themes of courage and questions of responsibility that
went beyond mindless acts of
racism to challenge a people
with traditions of decency.
At the ruins of the 16th
Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., where a bomb
killed four girls on Sept. 15,
1963, he crafted his most
famous column, “A Flower for
the Graves.” Walter Cronkite
was so moved that he asked
Patterson to read it on the
“CBS Evening News.”
It began: “A Negro mother
wept in the street Sunday
morning in front of a Baptist
Church in Birmingham. In her
hand she held a shoe, one
shoe, from the foot of her dead
child. We hold that shoe with
her. Every one of us in the
white South holds that small
shoe in his hand.”
He also protested the Georgia Legislature’s refusal to
seat Julian Bond, the black
civil rights leader, for opposing U.S. involvement in Vietnam and supporting draft
resisters. His exclusion was
overturned by the U.S.
Supreme Court in 1966, and
Bond served 20 years in the
legislature.
Patterson joined The Washington Post in 1968 as managing editor, succeeding Benjamin Bradlee, who became
executive editor. The two led
the newsroom in June 1971
when the Post followed the
New York Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers, the
secret study of U.S. duplicity
in Indochina. Nixon administration challenges to both
publications were struck
down in a historic Supreme
Court ruling.
Later in 1971, Patterson left
the Post and taught for a year
at Duke University. In 1972 he
became editor of the
St. Petersburg Times (now
known as the Tampa Bay
Times) and two sister publications, the Evening Independent in St. Petersburg and
Congressional Quarterly, covering the government in
Washington. After the death
of the publications’ owner,
Nelson Poynter, in 1978, he
became the company’s chairman until his own retirement
in 1988.
Eugene Corbett Patterson
was born on Oct. 15, 1923, in
Adel, Ga., to William C. and
Annabel Corbett Patterson.
He majored in journalism at
the University of Georgia,
graduating in 1943.
He joined the Army in World
War II, became a tank platoon
commander in Gen. George
S. Patton’s 3rd Army, and
fought in the Battle of the
Bulge. After Germany’s defeat
he sailed for the Pacific but
learned on the way of Japan’s
surrender. He became an
Army pilot after the war but
left the service in 1947 to go
into journalism.
From 1964 to 1968, Patterson
was vice chairman of the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights,
an appointee of President
Lyndon B. Johnson. He was
president of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors
in 1977 and 1978, and served
from 1974 to 1985 on Columbia’s Pulitzer Prize Board,
selecting winners of those
prestigious awards in journalism and the arts.
In 1981, Patterson was one of
the few board members who
opposed a feature-writing
Pulitzer for Janet Cooke of
the Washington Post for an
article about an 8-year-old
heroin addict, which proved
to be a hoax. He objected
because the article was about
an anonymous boy and relied
on unnamed sources. The
Pulitzer was returned, Cooke
resigned, and the episode was
a profound embarrassment
for the Post.
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> Army doctor
health care to soldiers, especially to those with PTSD, in
the pages of Time magazine
and the New York Times.
Capt. Linnerooth will be buried with full military honors
at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 14, at
Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
“He was really, really suffering,” Linnerooth’s widow,
Melanie Walsh, told Time for
its story on his death. “And it
didn’t matter that he was a
mental health professional,
and it didn’t matter that I was
a mental health professional.
I couldn’t help him, and he
couldn’t help himself.”
Houlihan was Linnerooth’s
adviser as he earned his graduate degree and later sought
to hire Linnerooth after his
military service, which began
in 2002. Linnerooth was an
assistant professor at Minnesota State Mankato for about
18 months in 2008 and 2009,
where he concentrated on
“clinical interpersonal dynamics,” according to his school
biography.
“When he went in and when
he came out, it was shockingly different,” Houlihan said of
Linnerooth’s military service.
“He had very clear symptoms
of PTSD.”
Houlihan and Linnerooth
shared an office wall in
Mankato, and Houlihan knew
Linnerooth was in his office
whenever he heard the motor
of his paper shredder.
After Mankato, Linnerooth
continued his work on the
mental health of soldiers and
returning veterans, especially
those suffering from PTSD,
with Veterans Administration
medical centers in Capitola,
Calif., and Reno, Nev.
His writing appeared in the
medical journal of the American Psychological Association.
“That was the most vivid
thing that stood out: He was a
brilliant writer,” Houlihan
said. “He was the best pure
writer I’ve ever dealt with. He
had a writer’s flair.”
After his career as an Army
psychologist, Linnerooth was
critical of the Army and its
response to the mental health
needs of soldiers. In a 2010
interview, he lambasted military leadership for not being
more connected with on-theground troops and for not
allocating more resources for
mental health programs,
Former U.S. Army Capt. Peter Linnerooth
was critical of the mental health care for
soldiers in articles that appeared in Time
Magazine and the New York Times.
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Time said.
“The Army has been criminally negligent.” Linnerooth
said.
In a 2009 New York Times
article, Linnerooth said during his deployment in Germany, he was the sole psychologist for a community of 10,000
people in 2005. In the article,
Linnerooth told a story about
how he had treated a burly
man whose job in Iraq was to
recover the bodies of soldiers,
and how one instance particularly haunted the soldier.
“He had picked up this
corpse that was so badly
burned, it weighed about 20
pounds,” Linnerooth said. “He
was this big, tough, awesome
guy. For him, it was like picking up his daughter. That was
an extreme case. But you get
those at least once or twice a
week.”
Larry Shellito, commissioner of Veterans Affairs for Minnesota, didn’t know Linnerooth but talked about the
reach and grip of PTSD.
“Oftentimes, you have to
look at the people that surround the people with (PTSD)
to make sure they are also
OK, because it’s got a multiple
impact,” Shellito said. “It’s not
just the individual who suffers, it’s the people who care
for him.”
Retired psychology professor Wayne Harris got to know
Linnerooth when he worked
as Harris’ graduate assistant.
He recalls Linnerooth as
bright, witty and “very conscientious.”
“Really, he was just the type
of person you’d want to be
helping people, but that takes
a personal toll,” Harris said
Saturday from his Minneapolis home. “He needed some
support in his role, too.”
Linnerooth was a psychologist with the U.S. Army in San
Antonio; Schweinfurt, Germany; and Iraq, where he was
stationed for 18 months. His
time in the Middle East, which
spanned 2006 and 2007, was a
period of escalating conflict
and increased presence of
U.S. service members called
“the surge.” His Bronze Star
was awarded for “meritorious
service” in a combat zone.
“Having intellectual knowledge doesn’t protect you from
the effects of seeing things …
seeing people in difficulty,
seeing people in pain, seeing
people severely injured.
Those memories are with you
for a long time,” Harris said.
“There is no immunity from
that.”
He added that the effects of
PTSD can strike long after
the disorder’s onset.
“Those scars are still there,
and if things start falling apart
in your life, those scars are
going to have an effect,” Harris said.
Houlihan said the scars
came from being thrust into
helping assist during surgeries after combat.
“If they had wounded people, he would scrub up and be
in there,” Houlihan said.
“There is no training in psychology to prepare for that.
And he saw things that he
couldn’t reconcile.”
According to a friend quoted
in Time, Linnerooth lost his
job with the Veterans Affairs
department in Reno when he
missed a two-year deadline to
get his state psychologist’s
license.
“He would have periods
where he could get into something (at work), but then he
would slip back into it” — the
effects of PTSD, Houlihan
said. “It was a struggle.”
Linnerooth also had started
struggling in his second marriage, Time said.
Houlihan said Linnerooth’s
work should have focused on
writing instead of working as
a therapist.
“The military needs to be
more up front to help people
prepare, and Peter never lived
to tell people that,” Houlihan
said.
Linnerooth was born in Minneapolis, grew up in Mankato
and attended high school in
Rochester, according to his
obituary. He obtained degrees
from Concordia College in
1992, Minnesota State Mankato in 1995 and the University
of Nevada, Reno in 2004.
Time said Linnerooth is survived by his wife, Melanie; his
mother, Gayle McMullen;
three children, including two
from a previous marriage;
and two stepchildren.
See Time magazine’s obituary on
Linnerooth at nation.time.
com/2013/01/11/dr-peter-j-n
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Age 55, of Minneapolis
Formerly of St. Paul
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Roland Moncrief
West Covina, California
Sun'ived by Mrs. Berthina McFarland
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Rev. Anthony and Mrs. McFarland Los
Angeles, CA and Gregory McFarland
of Northern California; brother,
Walter D. (Carole) McFarland
Greensboro, NC; nephew, Walter D.
McFarland Jr. and family; nieces,
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Terry' McFarland of St. Paul, MN and
Corey McFarland of Brooklyn, NY.
Born to Walter S. and Gladys M.
McFarland of St. Paul, MN on March
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June Laverne
Age 83
Waverly Gardens, North Oaks
Passed away peacefully
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H\. Johnson and two siblings.
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(Tom) Lcsosky, Joanne (David)
Daubenspeck; three grandchildren
Gretchen Bell, Matt and Amy
Daubenspeck;
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Cora and Celia; brothers Richard and
Neal Tornblom k sister Kathryn Hagen. Past Matron of Eastern Star,
Oriettcs and active with Job's Daughters and dearly loved her 'Loonies.
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St., St. Paul with gathering one hour
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William F. "Bill"
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1939-2013
Passed away January 13. Preceded in
death by 1st wife Annamae and son
Thomas. Survived by wife Yvonne; 6
children, Vickie (James) Mewhorter,
Valerie Moss, Donna (Scott) Johnson,
Tammy Mohr, Scott Wells & Lynda
(Rob) Brock; 18 grandchildren; 7
great-grandchildren; 2 sisters Delores
Clement & Donna Black; and brother
David (Pat) Newell. Visitation 9:00
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Margery Peilen
Beloved wife, mother,
passed away after a heroic battle with
cancer. Preceded in death by parents
Ruth and Joseph Peilen. Sun'ived by
loving husband of 50 years, Dr. Irwin
Weisman; daughters Rosalie Goldberg
(Fred), Dr. Melissa Weisman (Richard
Epstein) and Wendy Weisman;
granddaughters Annabelle Epstein,
Jeanne and Josephine Goldberg; sister
Mary Lou Peilen; brother Rabbi Mark
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Reina Chassy (Dr. Paul) and Judy
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