Jay Nelson Tuck

Jay Nelson Tuck (1916–1985) was a journalist, television critic and president of The Newspaper Guild of New York City.

[1] Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on June 24, 1916, under the name Osborn La Roux Goforth Jr., he had difficult childhood.

His mother Natalie was a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies in the Roaring Twenties, his father, Osborn Goforth, a salesman who abandoned the family.

Like millions of others, Tuck hitched rides on freight trains, shared campfires with the homeless and survived on Salvation Army soup.

[citation needed] Throughout his life, Jay Nelson Tuck was a strong-willed man guided by his moral convictions.

[9] Jay Nelson Tuck died of lung cancer at his home in Lafayette Township, New Jersey at the age of 69.