William Lambert (journalist)

Lambert, a native of Langford, South Dakota, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1957.

[2] Called by one of his editors "the modern-day father of investigative journalism",[3] Lambert launched an investigative journalism team at Life,[4] and forced the resignation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas in 1969.

Fortas, accused of having taken $20,000 from stock swindler Louis Wolfson in 1966, resigned nine days after Lambert's story appeared.

[5] Lambert and The New York Times reporter Wallace Turner shared the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in 1957 for their five-part series in the Portland Oregonian focusing on Dave Beck, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and exposing corruption in the union.

[6] Lambert and Turner were the first witnesses in the congressional investigation of Beck and the Teamsters.