Peter Worthington

For the Australian cricketer, see Peter Worthington (cricketer).
Peter Worthington
BornPeter John Vickers Worthington
(1927-02-16)16 February 1927
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
Died12 May 2013(2013-05-12) (aged 86)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
OccupationWriter
Spouse
  • Helen Parmelee
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1957; div. 1967)​
    [1]
  • Yvonne Crittenden
    ​
    (m. 1970)​
    [2]
Children3[3]

Peter John Vickers Worthington[4] (February 16, 1927 – May 12, 2013) was a Canadian journalist. A foreign correspondent with the Toronto Telegram newspaper from 1956, Worthington was an eyewitness to the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963, and can be seen in photographs of the event. He remained with the Telegram until it folded in 1971. Worthington was the founding editor of the Toronto Sun newspaper, which was created by former Telegram employees upon that newspaper's demise.

In 1996 Worthington was inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame.[5]

  1. ^ Ottawa Citizen (24 June 1957). "Helen Parmelee is Wed to Peter Worthington". Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  2. ^ Archives Canada profile Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference worthingtonobit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Jeffords, Shawn (May 14, 2013). "Toronto Sun founding editor Peter Worthington dead at 86". Toronto Sun. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
  5. ^ Maclean's