found: Schwartz, G.G. The work revolution, 1984:CIP t.p. (William Neikirk)
found: His Volcker, portrait of the money man, c1987:t.p. (William R. Neikirk)
found: Neikirk, William. The copperhead club, 2012:title page (William Neikirk)
found: Estill County Hall of Honor, William R, Neikirk (online), viewed April 5, 2019(William R. Neikirk; William Robert Neikirk; born in Irvine, Ky. on January 6, 1938; attended University of Kentucky; journalist at Chicago Tribune starting in 1974 where he served as an economics correspondent, a White House correspondent, assistant managing editor for financial news in Chicago, senior writer and Chief Washington correspondent; received numerous journalistic award including winner of the Loeb, John Hancock , University of Missouri and Champion Media Business Writing Awards, runner up for the Pulitzer Prize; the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage; runner up in the Raymond Clapper and Nover Awards; and named as one of the top 100 financial journalists of the 20th century. He was elected in to the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 1998.)
found: University of Kentucky, College of Communication and Information, School of Journalism and Media, Hall of Fame, 1998, William R. Neikirk (online), viewed April 5, 2019(graduated in 1960 with B.A. in journalism, editor of the Kentucky Kernel [U. Kentucky student newspaper]; sports writer for Lexington [Ky.] Herald; Associated Press journalist in Louisville, Ky., Frankfort, Ky., Baton Rouge, then Washington D.C.)
found: Copperhead Club, About William (online), viewed April 5, 2019(William Neikirk; now retired; lives in northern Virginia)
found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 2, 2020(in obituary dated Aug. 31, 2020: William R. Neikirk, an award-winning economics and political journalist who spent nearly 35 years with the Chicago Tribune and served as White House correspondent during the Clinton administration, died Aug. 27 at his home in Arlington, Va. He was 82. Mr. Neikirk wrote about politics and economics for the Associated Press before joining the Tribune's Washington bureau in 1974. He also had stints as Chicago-based associate managing editor of financial news and chief Washington correspondent before retiring in 2008. He also wrote a novel "The Copperhead Club." William Robert Neikirk was born in Irvine, Ky., on Jan. 6, 1938)
