Jules Loh

Jules Edward Loh (May 29, 1931 – August 29, 2010) was an American journalist who worked for almost 40 years as a reporter and feature writer for the Associated Press (AP). Loh was born on May 29, 1931, in Macon, Georgia. He served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War, then attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and worked for The Washington Post. In the mid-1950s, he reported for the Waco Tribune-Herald and The Texas Observer. In 1959, he joined the AP's Louisville, Kentucky, office. Loh was reassigned to the New York office in 1960. Matthew E. Welsh, who was the governor of Indiana during the 1964 Democratic presidential primaries, called Loh's reporting the "most perceptive picture of Wallace the campaigner". Later in the 1960s, Loh covered the assassinations of the United States President John F. Kennedy, and his brother, the Attorney General and presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy; the assassination attempt on Wallace; and the United States space program. Editha L. Watson in the Navajo Times likewise praised Loh for his sensitivity toward the Navajo people and his storytelling ability. The historian William H. Lyon, by contrast, called the book superficial in its analysis and criticized it for its disorganized, sometimes off-topic historical narrative and lack of citations.

From 1976 to 1982, Loh wrote a column called "Elsewhere in America", which was published twice a week. Loh used the column to tell stories "about unusual people and places". Loh died on in Tappan, New York, of complications from abdominal surgery.