John Ed Pearce Dies at 87

I grew up reading John Ed Pearce in the Louisville Courier-Journal's Sunday magazine. He was basically the man when it came to telling Kentucky tales. That picture there might as well be hanging on my wall, it seems so familiar to this day. I never met John Ed, but my...

By Bob Norman

September 27, 2006

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I grew up reading John Ed Pearce in the Louisville Courier-Journal's Sunday magazine. He was basically the man when it came to telling Kentucky tales. That picture there might as well be hanging on my wall, it seems so familiar to this day. I never met John Ed, but my dad, Phil Norman, worked with him and had a great admiration for him. That's not why I'm putting this link to his obit on the Pulp, though. It's this little paragraph here:

"Pearce's relationship with [then-Ky Gov. Bert] Combs once got him into trouble with his boss, the late Barry Bingham Sr., who disapproved of a Florida real-estate venture that the two were involved in and demanded it be dissolved."

Can you imagine the field day this blog would have had with that one?

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Journalist Bob Norman has been raking the muck of South Florida for the past 25 years. His work has led to criminal cases against corrupt politicians, the ouster of bad judges from the bench, and has garnered dozens of state, regional, and national awards.

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