Leo Katcher

Leo Katcher (October 14, 1911 – February 27, 1991) was an American reporter, screenwriter, and author.^[1] As West Coast Correspondent of the New York Post in 1952, he helped to break the story about Nixon's election expenses, which provoked Nixon into making his televised defence, still remembered as the Checkers Speech. In 1956, Katcher was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story for The Eddy Duchin Story.