Helen Thomas
American author and journalist · United States · On the map · Writers · Lived 1920 to 2013 · aged 92
Helen Amelia Thomas was an American reporter and author, and a long-serving member of the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. presidents - from the beginning of the Kennedy administration to the second year of the Obama administration.
Helen Thomas is read about 134 times a day, in 35 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
2013Died20 July 20132009Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement AwardAward2000American Book AwardsAwardHonorary DegreeAward1995IWMF Lifetime Achievement AwardAward1993Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in JournalismAward1990Siena MedalAward1986Michigan Women's Hall of FameAward1975Ladies' Home Journal Women of the YearAward1920Born4 August 1920
Media & music
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Thomas with President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office, June 21, 1966
Thomas with President Ford andchief of staff Dick Cheney (left) in 1976
Thomas in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room half an hour before morning gaggle, 2007![President Barack Obama presenting Thomas cupcakes on her 89th birthday[39]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/President_Barack_Obama_presents_cupcakes_with_a_candle_to_Hearst_White_House_columnist_Helen_Thomas_in_honor_of_her_birthday_in_the_James_Brady_Briefing_Room.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg)
President Barack Obama presenting Thomas cupcakes on her 89th birthday[39]Awards
About this person
Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1920 to 2013 · aged 92
Where to find them
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