John A. Farrell

John Aloysius Farrell is an American author and historian. He has written biographies of U.S. President Richard Nixon, Senator Ted Kennedy, House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, and defense attorney Clarence Darrow. He is a former White House correspondent and Washington editor for The Boston Globe and a former Washington bureau chief and columnist for The Denver Post.

On January 2, 2017, The New York Times reported that Farrell had unearthed notes written by Nixon aide H. R. Haldeman, which confirmed that Nixon personally authorized "throwing a monkey wrench" into Lyndon Johnson's attempts to negotiate peace in Vietnam on the eve of the 1968 election. In his famous interviews with newsman David Frost, and elsewhere, Nixon had always denied any participation in what history has come to call the Chennault Affair - after Anna Chennault, the Nixon campaign's go-between with South Vietnam. for The Boston Globe 1996 Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for coverage of the American Presidency for The Boston Globe 2001 Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for reporting in The Boston Globe on flaws in the criminal justice system that lead to the conviction of innocent defendants

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