In the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945, he contributed some articles to the Advertiser and Alabama Journal from England.
[3] After the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of 1963, Hall wrote that Wallace had no need to apologize for the violence he had encouraged by his call for resistance to court-ordered desegregation.
Instead, he wrote, it was President John Kennedy who "inflamed the Negroes during the recent trouble by rehearsing their historic grievances.
He had trained a myna bird to greet visitors at his house with "hello fat ass", but all his swagger, according to Barbas, was to hide his insecurities.
He received praise from the Alabama House of Representatives for this; his "thorough and hard-hitting reporting was acclaimed in national publications like Newsweek and even nominated for a Pulitzer Prize", and according to Barbas one of the results was that the New York Times itself ran a series of investigative articles on racist practices in the North.