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Former LA Times Journalist Jack Nelson Dies at 80

WASHINGTON -- Jack Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who covered the civil-rights movement and the Watergate scandal for the Los Angeles Times and was the paper's Washington bureau chief for 20 years, died Wednesday.

Mr. Nelson, 80 years old, died at home, said Richard Cooper, a longtime family friend and associate at the Times.

Mr. Nelson had suffered from pancreatic cancer, Mr. Cooper said. He lived in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md.

Mr. Nelson spent more than 35 years with the Los Angeles Times, stepping down as its chief Washington correspondent in 2001. He joined the Times in 1965 and in 1970 began working in its Washington bureau. He was bureau chief from 1975 to the end of 1995.
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