The crowning irony of Ray F. Herndon’s journalism career is that the year he was a named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Investigative Reporting (1991) was the same year his newspaper at the time, the Dallas Times Herald, ceased publication. Herndon, who also covered the Vietnam War for UPI, wrote for several South Florida dailies and late in his career landed at the LA Times, passed away Sunday at age 77.
The reporter’s prize-winning series helped free from prison an innocent man, who had served by 1990 eight years of a 55-year sentence.
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