Jackson County MsArchives News.....Dr. Ira B. Harkey Jr, won a "Pulitzer Prize" for his editorials in the Pascagoula, Mississippi Chronicle Newspaper - 1963 October 10, 2006
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Times Picayune (LA) 10/10/2006 And Obituaries Orleans Parish Louisiana October 10, 2006
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In 1963, Dr. Ira B. Harkey Jr, won a "Pulitzer Prize" for his editorials in 
the Pascagoula, Mississippi Chronicle, of which he was editor and publisher 
from 1948 to 1963.

     - Funeral services for Dr. Ira B. Harkey Jr, 88, former New Orleans and 
Mississippi newspaperman will be held on Friday, October 13, 2006 at 3:00 p.m. 
in the Chapel of Lakelawn Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans. Services were also 
held on Tuesday afternoon, October 10, 2006 at the First United Methodist 
Church in Kerrville. Texas. Harkey died from complications of Parkinson's 
Disease on Sunday, October 8, 2006 at 12:50 a.m. at Parsons House in 
Kerrville, Texas. He had been a resident at Parsons House for nearly two years.
 
In 1963 he won a "Pulitzer Prize" for his editorials in the Pascagoula, 
Mississippi Chronicle, of which he was editor and publisher from 1948 to 1963. 
He began his newspaper career as a reporter for the Times-Picayune in New 
Orleans while a junior at Tulane University in 1940. Among other honors 
were "The Society of Professional Journalists' medal for outstanding national 
newspaper public service", a media award from the National conference of 
Christians and Jews, and the "Silver Em Award" from the University of 
Mississippi. The Silver Me honors a broadcast or print journalist whose career 
exemplifies the highest ideals of American journalism. 

In 1992, he was given the annual libertarian award of the "Mississippi Civil 
Liberties Union", and the following year was elected to the "Mississippi 
Newspaper Association Hall of Fame". 

Harkey was born in New Orleans, LA, January 15. 1918. He was a graduate of 
Isidore Newman School, attended New Mexico Military Institute, graduated from 
Tulane and held masters and doctoral degreesfrom Ohio State University. He was 
author of five books, including 'The Smell of Burning Crosses,' an account of 
his 14-year participation in the Mississippi civil rights battles. He 
published many magazines articles. He intended to be a teacher, but in 1942 
left Tulane graduate school to join the US Navy, in which he served as a 
Lieutenant in Air Combat Intelligence and as a mobile correspondent in the 
Pacific. 

In 1946 he returned to The Times-Picayune as a magazine writer, and in a 1948 
bought the Pascagoula newspaper, a weekly. In 1957 he converted it to a semi-
weekly, to a daily in 1962. 

After selling the Chronicle in 1963, Harkey wrote his autobiographical book 
and went to Ohio State University as a journalism teacher. In the late 1960s 
and 1970s he was a Carnegie Foundation professor at the University of Alaska 
and professional lecturer at the Universities of Montana & Oregon. Until 1993 
he lectured at various colleges, universities and before other organizations.

Since 1977, Harkey had lived near Kerrville, Texas. His other books 
are 'Pioneer Bush Pilot: the Story of Noel Wien,' a biography of the first
aviator to tame the Alaska Arctic; 'Alton Ochsner: Surgeon of the South,' with 
co-author John Wilds of New Orleans; 'Dedicated to the Proposition,' a brief 
summary of his editorial activities during and after the James Meredith crisis 
at the University of Mississippi; and 'Mississippi Sounds,' story of a family 
of six that moved from the big city to a small town. He was a member of Phi 
Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon, the American Association of University 
Professors and the American Political Science Association. He was a member of 
the Louisiana Club and had been a member of the Boston Club for 65 years. 

Surviving are his widow, of New Orleans and seven children, 13 grandchildren, 
eight great-grandchildren, eight step-children and several nieces. 
Posted: Times Picayune (LA) 10/10/2006



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