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University of Northern Iowa UNI ScholarWorks Noteworthy People of UNI Documents Noteworthy People of UNI 12-1-1996 Tom Pettit dies, was award-winning journalist and UNI alumnus, Northern Iowa Today, Winter 1996 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/uninoteworthy_documents Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy Recommended Citation "Tom Pettit dies, was award-winning journalist and UNI alumnus, Northern Iowa Today, Winter 1996" (1996). Noteworthy People of UNI Documents. 136. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/uninoteworthy_documents/136 This Document is brought to you for free and open access by the Noteworthy People of UNI at UNI ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Noteworthy People of UNI Documents by an authorized administrator of UNI ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Tom Pettit dies, was award winning journalist and UNI alumnus Tom Pettit, an award-winning TV reporter and 1953 graduate of the University of Northern Iowa (then Iowa State Teacher's College), died in December 1995 following heart surge1y complicati ons. He was 64. Pettit, who retired from NBC ews earlier in 1995, was honored with three Emmys , a Peabody Award and the Polk Memo ri al Award in a career that stretched from the Eisenhower era to the Clinton administration. Pettit gained wide fa me with his 1963 report from outside the Dallas City Jail. Standing only six feet away, Pettit was the onl y broadcaster on the scene and on the air when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald. Born in Cincinnati, Pettit grew up in Iowa and graduated from Waterloo West High School. His first taste of journalism was as a staff member of Iowa State Teachers College's CollegeEye student newspaper. Pettit wrote a popular weekly column satirizing Mickey Spillane, the writer of myste1y novels. Throughout his career, Pettit never forgot his ties to U I. The University honored him in 1972 with its U I Alumni Achievement Award. In 1982, he gave his $1,750 honorarium for speaking on campus to the UNI Foundation to be used for scholarships. Pettit also taught two summer journalism seminars on national election coverage and general public affairs reporting in 1987. He is survived by his wife, Patricia, and four children from a previous marriage. .

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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present University Relations 4-25-1965 Tom Pettit to be Annual Dean Stone Night speaker University of Montana--Missoula. Office of University Relations Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/newsreleases Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation University of Montana--Missoula. Office of University Relations, "Tom Pettit to be Annual Dean Stone Night speaker" (1965). University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present. 1580. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/newsreleases/1580 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Relations at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. april 22, 1965 FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, APRIL 25 Tom Pettit, National Broadcasting Company news correspondent, will be the Ninth Annual Dean Stone Night speaker May 9 at Montana State University. He also will be the 1965 professional lecturer in journalism at MSU and will meet with students in classes May 10. Sponsored by the School of Journalism, the event honors the memory of A. L. Stone, the school’s founder and first dean. Besides the featured address the program will include the presentation of achievement awards to journalism and radio-television students, according to Dean Nathan B. Blumberg of the journalism school. Pettit has been a member of the NBC news staff since 1959 when he became a reporter for NBC-owned WRCV in Philadelphia.
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