John Elgin Cranfill, former Assistant Managing Editor of The Dallas Morning News, died Wednesday, Feb. 15 at the age of 78.
The Dallas Morning NewsJohn Elgin Cranfill was born in Waco on Dec. 17, 1944, and attended La Vega High School and Baylor University before earning his master’s degree from the University of Southern California.
During the Vietnam War, Cranfill served as an information officer for the Air Force from 1968 to 1971. He was then stationed at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, where he wrote for the base newspaper., where he became the paper’s first energy editor. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his work in 1974 and,
, “always proud to have been a nominated finalist for the Pulitzer, John felt he was a winner to have come in second.”Later in his tenure with, Cranfill helped bringing journalism into the age of the internet. He was the founding managing director of
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