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Peter John Vickers Worthington, soldier, journalist, publisher, author (b at Fort Osborne Barracks, Winnipeg 16 Feb 1927). The son of F.F. WORTHINGTON, he served in the RCN and RN in WWII, and as a Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry lieutenant in the Korean War. After earning his BA and bachelor of journalism, respectively, at UBC and Carleton, he was a roving reporter for The Toronto Telegram from 1956 to 1971, capably covering many coups, wars and revolutions.
He obtained an important "scoop" on witnessing Jack Ruby's 1963 shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas and he worked briefly with the Biafran army during the Nigerian civil war. Worthington was the cofounder and outspoken editor in chief of The Toronto Sun from 1971 until 1982, when he entered politics. Losing his bid to be the PC candidate in Toronto Broadview-Greenwood, he ran unsuccessfully as an independent; 2 years later, he won the PC nomination but lost the election. Worthington has for several years been the editor of Influence, one of Canada's new crop of innovative and informative magazines, in addition to writing a regular column for the Sun newspapers.
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