Jack
Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the Washington,
D.C., bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. He is also a regular
panelist on WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW. He has served as the
Atlanta bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times and was a Times investigative
reporter. Nelson has written extensively about J. Edgar Hoover's FBI,
the Watergate Scandal, the Richard Nixon impeachment proceedings and
other major events. His books include Terror in the Night: The
Klan's Campaign Against the Jews; Beyond Reagan: The Politics of Upheaval;
Captive Voices; The Censors and the School; The Orangeburg Massacre;
and The FBI and the Berrigans. He is a founder of
the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.