Ted Knap

Knap would go on to write for his high school newspaper, covering the 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Notably, he exposed a practice within the Indianapolis Police Department of classifying a large number of crimes as being "under investigation," as opposed to an alternative designation.

For his reporting, Knap garnered a reputation among his colleagues (as well as local politicians) for his strong sense of journalistic duty.

Knap covered, in 1963 alone, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and the ongoing Civil Rights Movement.

During his time in Washington, Knap covered presidents Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan.

Owing to his job as a journalist, Knap often had adversarial encounters with the politicians he covered, and found it difficult to maintain cordial relationships with them.

Knap often harangued Nixon regarding his policies regarding Vietnam, asking the president about his "secret plan" to end the war.