Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1929, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia
• Census: 1930, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia
• Occupation: 1932, Washington, District of Columbia; Journalist for the Washington Daily News
• Occupation: 1936, Washington, District of Columbia; Associated Press
• Residence: 1936, Alexandria, Virginia
• Occupation: 1940, London, England; Associated Press
• Military Service: 16 Oct 1940, Silver Spring, Montgomery, Maryland
• Occupation: 1941, Moscow, Russia; Associated Press
• Occupation: 1954, London, England; Associated Press

Notes:

Gilmore, Eddy Lanier King, born on May 28, 1907, in Selma, Al., attended the local elementary school of his home town. In 1923, he enrolled at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Later on he continued his studies at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he became graduated in 1928. After graduation, he offered his services, gratis, to the Atlanta Journal in Georgia in order to gain experience as a newspaperman. In 1932 he moved to the Washington Daily News where he worked for three years before joining the Associated Press in December, 1935, reporting mainly for the Washington bureau of the news agency. In April, 1942, AP sent him to its Moscow bureau. He was thus able to cover the fighting on the Rostov, Stalingrad, and other fronts, and in 1945 Gilmore became head of the Moscow AP bureau. One of his ‘scoops’ in the following time was his interview-by-mail with Stalin in 1945 on the eve of the first meeting of the United Nations held in the U.S. FOr his work he was awarded the National Headliners Club Medal in March, 1947. Eddy L. K. Gilmore was made the 1947 PPW in the “Telegraphic Reporting (International)” category for his correpondence from Moscow. (Source : Complete Biographical encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917-2000 Volume 16. Edited by Heinz Dietrich Fischer)

GILMORE, Eddy Lanier King, 1907-1967
Journalist. Born: May 28, 1907, Selma. Parents: Eddy Lanier and Evelyn (King) Gilmore. Married: Tamara Chernashova, July 13, 1943. Children: Three. Education: Studied at Washington and Lee University, 1925-1926; graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1928. News reporter for Atlanta Journal, 1929-1932; Washington Daily News, 1932-1935; Associated Press after 1935. Worked for Associated Press in Washington Bureau, 1936-1940; London Bureau, 1940-1941 and 1954-1967; Moscow Bureau, 1941-1954. Lecture tours in America during 1953-1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, and 1966. National Headliners Club Award as best foreign correspondent, 1946; Pulitzer Prize for telegraphic reporting from Moscow, 1947.

“The capital of the Third Reich is a heap of gaunt, burned-out, flame-seared buildings. It is a desert of a hundred thousand dunes made up of brick and powdered masonry. Over this hangs the pungent stench of death… it is impossible to exaggerate in describing the destruction… down town Berlin look as like nothing man could have contrived. Driving down the famous Frankfurt Alee, I did not see a single building where you could have set up as business of even selling apples.” Eddie Gilmore, Associated Press, Berlin, June, 9th, 1945.

Associated Press Pulitzer Prize Winner 1947 - Eddy Gilmore, for news reports from Russia, especially an interview with Joseph Stalin.

Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 5R; Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4; Me and My Russian Wife.
Author: After the Cossacks Burned Down the “Y”. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1964.
Me and My Russian Wife. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1954.
Troika. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1962.

Eddy married Barbara Reid SKINNER on 23 Nov 1927 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, and was divorced. Barbara (daughter of Macy Millmore SKINNER and Marian Weymouth JUNKINS) was born on 19 Nov 1907 in Palo Alto, California; died on 30 Apr 1953 in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany; was buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eddy married Margaret COOK in 1938, and was divorced. Margaret was born on 16 Oct 1910 in Washington, District of Columbia; died on 5 Jan 2011 in Margate, Atlantic, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Christopher Cook GILMORE was born on 3 Aug 1940 in Washington, District of Columbia; died on 29 Jun 2004 in Margate, Atlantic, New Jersey.

Eddy married Tamara Adamovna Kolb CHERNASHOVA on 13 Jul 1943. Tamara was born on 15 Jul 1927 in Russia; died on 15 Apr 1980 in London, England; was buried in Gunnersbury Cemetery, Acton, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Victoria Wendell GILMORE was born on 14 Aug 1944 in Moscow, Russia.
2. Susanna Hager GILMORE was born on 16 Jan 1950 in Moscow, Russia; died on 28 Apr 2015 in Estepona, Malaga, Andalusia, Spain.
3. Natasha Tamara GILMORE was born on 3 Feb 1957 in Moscow, Russia; died on 6 May 2011 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom; was buried in Saint Michael Churchyard, Winson, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Edwin Luther Gilmore

Edwin married Evelyn KING. Evelyn was born on 22 Aug 1877 in Pearl River, Neshoba, Mississippi; died on 11 Dec 1962 in Hastings, East Sussex, England; was buried in Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Dallas, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]