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Leo Katcher
Leo Katcher was an American reporter, screenwriter, and author. As West Coast Correspondent of the New York Post in 1952, he helped to break the story about Nixon’s election expens...ver maisLeo Katcher was an American reporter, screenwriter, and author. 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. His 1958 book The Big Bankroll: The Life and Times of Arnold Rothstein, about the mobster/gambler, was adapted into a movie, King of the Roaring Twenties (1961) starring David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Diana Dors and Jack Carson.ver menos