[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 101 (Friday, July 8, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1269]
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                    IN HONOR OF MS. DORIS O'DONNELL

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, July 8, 2011

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Ms. Doris O'Donnell 
on the occasion of her 90th birthday.
  Ms. O'Donnell was born on July 10, 1921 and grew up in the Old 
Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland. Her family was heavily involved in 
the community; her father was a fireman, her mother was a Democratic 
ward leader, and her uncle was the county sheriff.
  Her career in print journalism began in 1944, starting at the 
Cleveland News. She would go on to work at numerous newspapers, 
including the Lake County News-Herald, the Tribune-Review based in 
Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
  Ms. O'Donnell was a pioneer for female journalism. Her career spanned 
over five decades, and she covered such topics as police, the court 
system, organized crime, and local politics. She was the first female 
reporter to reach ``superstar'' status in the Cleveland area, and she 
won more state and local journalism awards than any female journalist 
in history.
  She was known as a big-story reporter, and was able to use her 
fearless and brass-knuckles reporting style to report on such items as 
the Kremlin, and the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, 
and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Ms. O'Donnell's late husband, 
former Cleveland News city editor, passed away in 1976. Ms. O'Donnell 
currently lives in suburban Cleveland and serves on the board of a 
charitable foundation.
  Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me in honoring Ms. Doris 
O'Donnell, a woman whose relentless pursuit of the truth enabled her to 
rise to the top of Cleveland journalism, and whose brilliant career was 
a gift to the Cleveland community.

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