Jack Nelson dies at 80; Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter helped raise L.A. Times to national prominence

Jack Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, author and longtime Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, whose hard-nosed coverage of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the Watergate scandal in the 1970s helped establish the paper's national reputation, has died. He was 80.

By Elaine Woo

October 21, 2009