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==Career==

==Career==

Wardlaw was born in McComb in Pike County in southwestern [[Mississippi]]. He graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees<ref name=book/> from the Medill School of Journalism at [[Northwestern University]] in Evanston, [[Illinois]]. He was briefly the municipal government reporter at ''The Meridian Star'' in Meridian in eastern Mississippi and a police reporter for the City News Bureau in [[Chicago]]. In March 1961, he joined the staff in [[New Orleans]] of the since defunct afternoon daily, ''The States-Item," for which he was over time a copy editor, assistant city editor, and political and judicial reporter. Wardlaw reported on the construction of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and the sensational trial of Clay Shaw, a New Orleans businessman who was [[Acquittal|acquitted]] in what Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison had alleged to have been a [[conspiracy]] behind the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]]. Wardlaw and fellow journalist Rosemary James, a native of [[South Carolina]], co-authored ''Plot or Politics,'' a 1967 book which takes issue with the Garrison investigation.<ref name=bio/><ref name="The Tuscaloosa News; September 24, 1967">{{cite web|author=Larry O'Hara|date=September 24, 1967 |title=The Tuscaloosa News |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19670923&id=YQ4fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I5sEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7300,4169949&hl=en |publisher=The Tuscaloosa News|page=30 |access-date=August 17, 2015}}</ref> Wardlaw won an [[Associated Press]] award for his story on the death of David W. Ferrie, one of the multiple mysterious figures of the Garrison investigation.<ref name=book>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGnINlzlpsIC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=Jack+D.+Wardlaw&source=bl&ots=a34FHztWCW&sig=vcG-4ub2EfPG3GNnITWTfJyO-JI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aCGeUsGIKuqg2QXY9IHYAQ&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Jack%20D.%20Wardlaw&f=false|author=Rosemary James and Jack Wardlaw|title=Plot or Politics: The Garrison Case & Its Cast, p. 84 and copyright page|publisher=Pelican Publishing Company, 1967|accessdate=December 3, 2013}}</ref>

Wardlaw was born in McComb in Pike County in southwestern [[Mississippi]]. He graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees<ref name=book/> from the Medill School of Journalism at [[Northwestern University]] in Evanston, [[Illinois]]. He was briefly the municipal government reporter at ''The Meridian Star'' in Meridian in eastern Mississippi and a police reporter for the City News Bureau in [[Chicago]]. In March 1961, he joined the staff in [[New Orleans]] of the since defunct afternoon daily, ''The States-Item,'' for which he was over time a copy editor, assistant city editor, and political and judicial reporter. Wardlaw reported on the construction of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and the sensational trial of Clay Shaw, a New Orleans businessman who was [[Acquittal|acquitted]] in what Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison had alleged to have been a [[conspiracy]] behind the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]]. Wardlaw and fellow journalist Rosemary James, a native of [[South Carolina]], co-authored ''Plot or Politics,'' a 1967 book which takes issue with the Garrison investigation.<ref name=bio/><ref name="The Tuscaloosa News; September 24, 1967">{{cite web|author=Larry O'Hara|date=September 24, 1967 |title=The Tuscaloosa News |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19670923&id=YQ4fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I5sEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7300,4169949&hl=en |publisher=''The Tuscaloosa News''|page=30 |access-date=August 17, 2015}}</ref> Wardlaw won an [[Associated Press]] award for his story on the death of David W. Ferrie, one of the multiple mysterious figures of the Garrison investigation.<ref name=book>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGnINlzlpsIC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=Jack+D.+Wardlaw&source=bl&ots=a34FHztWCW&sig=vcG-4ub2EfPG3GNnITWTfJyO-JI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aCGeUsGIKuqg2QXY9IHYAQ&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Jack%20D.%20Wardlaw&f=false|author=Rosemary James and Jack Wardlaw|title=Plot or Politics: The Garrison Case & Its Cast, p. 84 and copyright page|publisher=Pelican Publishing Company, 1967|accessdate=December 3, 2013}}</ref>

Wardlaw was named ''States-Item'' capital bureau chief in 1979. In 1980, he assumed the same position for ''The Times-Picayune,'' a position which he held for the next twenty-two years.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/longtime_times-picayune_politi.html|title=Ed Anderson, "Former Times-Picayune political reporter, capital bureau chief Jack Wardlaw dies," January 6, 2012|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=December 3, 2013}}</ref>  

Wardlaw was named ''States-Item'' capital bureau chief in 1979. In 1980, he assumed the same position for ''The Times-Picayune,'' a position which he held for the next twenty-two years.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/longtime_times-picayune_politi.html|title=Ed Anderson, "Former Times-Picayune political reporter, capital bureau chief Jack Wardlaw dies," January 6, 2012|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=December 3, 2013}}</ref>