How one journalist won back his reputation

A smear campaign of "racism" and "right wing" associations prove false

Veteran journalist John Ware in front of the mural at Cable Street depicting the famous 'battle' that took place there in 1936 against Oswald Mosley’s fascists as they marched through the heavily-Jewish East End of London. (Courtesy)

Sometimes good people prevail. In this case, a top reporter won back his reputation against those who tried to destroy him after he broke a national story with big political fallout.

Full disclosure, I know the veteran UK journalist, John Ware, at the center of this story. That relationship, however, is also why I celebrate how a colleague successfully fought those who conspired to ruin him.

I had met John Ware shortly after he had finished a remarkable “The Hunt for Doctor Mengele” documentary in 1978. It did not take me very long to admire Ware’s  unrelenting pursuit of truth in chasing stories. He was often in physical peril during his years of covering Northern Ireland’s sectarian violence and human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia. I learned a lot about i…