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New article name goes here Margaret "Peggy" Simpson
Margaret "Peggy" Simpson is an American journalist who covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, and witnessed Jack Ruby shoot and kill Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. She worked for the Associated Press in Texas and Washington, D.C., the Boston Herald, Ms. Magazine, Women's Media Center and others.
Simpson covered Congress for the AP, and covered the 1975 United Nations Conference on Women in Mexico City. In 1979, she was a Nieman fellow at Harvard. That year, she also joined a gender discrimination lawsuit against the AP.
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- ^ Hennenberger, Melinda. "How would journalists report the story of JFK’s assassination today? Very differently.", The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., 21 November 2013. Retrieved on 1 June 2013.
- ^ Woodbury, Emily. "Peggy Simpson", "Journalism and Women Symposium", Retrieved on 1 June 2013.
- ^ Simpson, Peggy. "1979: Covering the Women’s Movement", "Nieman Reports", Cambridge, MA., Summer 1979. Retrieved on 1 June 2013.
- ^ "Class of 1979", "Nieman Foundation, Harvard University", Cambridge, MA. Retrieved on 1 June 2013.