Karl Decker (journalist)

Karl Decker, pen name Charles Duval, (died 1941, age 73) was a journalist in the United States who worked for William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. He covered events leading up to the Spanish American War and helped Evangelina Cosio y Cisneros escape from a Spanish prison.[1][2][3] Controversy over the events ensued. Amy Ephron wrote about the events in her book White Rose (2000).[4]

Before the war, Decker collaborated with filmmaker William C. Paley, covering a funeral procession for those killed on the U.S.S. Maine.

After the war, Decker returned to Cuba in 1899. He covered severe storm aftermath. He also wrote about Cuba in 1933.[5]

Later in his career, while working at the Saturday Evening Post, he made claims about who was responsible for the theft of the Mona Lisa.[6]

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References
  1. "KARL DECKER DIES; CORRESPONDENT, 73; Hearst Reporter Many Years Rescued Evangelina Cisneros From a Cuban Prison". December 5, 1941 – via NYTimes.com.
  2. "Not a hoax: New evidence in the New York Journal's rescue of Evangelina Cisneros". fs2.american.edu.
  3. "Was 'jailbreaking journalism' a hoax? Evidence points the other way". October 15, 2010.
  4. Beitiks, Edvins; Staff, Of the Examiner (October 12, 1999). "Cultivating legend of "White Rose'". SFGate.
  5. Campbell, W. Joseph (October 8, 2013). "The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms". Routledge – via Google Books.
  6. "80 YEARS AGO TODAY - THE BIRTH OF A PHONY MASTERMIND".
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