Richart T. Cooper
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EXPERIENCE
Los Angeles Times, senior Washington correspondent, 1996-; deputy bureau chief, 1981-96; news editor, 1977-80; staff writer, covering energy, HEW and Watergate special prosecutor, 1973-77; Midwest bureau chief, 1970-72; staff writer, covering McGovern 1972 presidential campaign, Kent State Shootings and other student-radical protests, Midwest politics, 1968-1970.
Chicago Sun-Times, general assignment reporter, 1966-68.
Elburn Herald (country weekly in Northern Illinois) editor, 1958-66.
EDUCATION
Harvard University, Cambridge Mass. B.A., English, 1958.
PERSONAL
Born: December 21, 1935. Washington, D.C.
Married: Sharon A. Holroyd.
Children: 4
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