Kotz, Nick
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- Washington post WWW site, viewed April 29, 2020(in obituary dated April 28, 2020: Nick Kotz, who won a Pultizer Prize in 1968 for exposing unsafe and unsanitary conditions in the nation's meatpacking plants and who later became a Washington Post reporter and the author of books investigating hunger, civil rights and miliary contracting, died April 26 at his home near Broad Run, Va. He was 87. Mr. Kotz was born Nathan Kallison Lasser in San Antonio on Sept. 16, 1932. Nick--as he was called from an early age--moved to Washington in the mid-1940s. He was adopted by his mother's second husband, Jacob Kotz. He served as a Marine Corps officer before joining the Des Moines Register in 1958. He moved to the paper's Washington bureau in 1964. Mr. Kotz contributed to many publications over the years and taught journalism at American University. Mr. Kotz lived in Chevy Chase, Md., before moving to a farm in Fauquier County, Va.)
- His Beyond control, 1988:CIP t.p. (Nick Kotz)
- LC data base, 10-22-87(hdg.: Kotz, Nick)
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Nathan K. "Nick" Kotz (September 16, 1932 – April 26, 2020) was an American journalist, author, and historian. His most recent book, The Harness Makers Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas, tells the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan Kallison's journey to the United States. He is best known for his 2005 book Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America chronicling the roles of US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. in the passage of the 1964, 1965, and 1968 civil rights laws. Kotz won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1968 for his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat packing plants, which helped ensure the passage of the Wholesome Meat Act.
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