[1][2] Born in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, he lived in Toronto, Canada before moving to the United States in 1940.
[5] According to Senator Hart, Whiteside's reporting on Agent Orange was the catalyst for the Congressional hearings regarding the chemical.
[6] By the end of the hearings, the Surgeon General had announced restrictions on its use, both domestically and in Vietnam.
[9] His report covering the police violence against journalists and anti-war demonstrators alike at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago[10] continues to be relevant to reporters putting themselves in harm's way to tell the public not present at an event what truly happened.
The bulk of it is professional in nature: research, photographs, and notes for his articles and books.