IT’S A MATTER OF LIFE…

IT’S A MATTER OF LIFE…
Legacy of a gun-totin’ cop reporter
‘Nothing happened on the streets … that he didn’t find out about …’
His voice came from the bottom of a pit all the way up through the
gravel, and by the time it hit your ears, it had settled into a low
growl. He smoked like a chimney, had the build of a squat bulldog and
the face of a washboard road. That was John York, Reporter with a
capital R. Cop beat. Just the facts. Right now. If he had a motto, it
had to have been, “Don’t waste my time with bull.” John David York,
retired Observer reporter and columnist, died of a blood infection
Jan. 20 at age 78. He believed in the Second Amendment, the one about
the “right of the people to keep and bear arms.” Said retired
Observer business editor M.S. Van Hecke, “He knew more about guns
than the staff did. He wrote twice as much copy than anybody else; he
poured out copy but not all of it got in the paper.”
[A rare journalist/reporter.]
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