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((Short description|American journalist (1933–2011)))
((More citations needed|date=May 2019))
((Infobox person
| name = Oscar Griffin Jr.
| birth_name = Oscar O'Neal Griffin Jr.
| birth_date = ((birth date|1933|4|28))
| birth_place = [[Daisetta, Texas]], U.S.
| death_date = ((death date and age|2011|11|23|1933|4|28))
| death_place = [[New Waverly, Texas]], U.S.
| occupation = journalist
|awards=1963 Pulitzer Prize
|spouse=Patricia Lamb Griffin (1955-2011 his death)
|children=4
|education=((Plainlist|
*Liberty (TX) High School 1950
*[[University of Texas at Austin]], [[Bachelor of Journalism]] 1958
*[[Harvard Business School]], OPM 6 1982))
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   | allegiance    = ((USA))
   | branch        = [[U.S. Army]]
   | serviceyears  = 1953-1955
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|footnotes=<ref>
  ((cite book
    |title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners |year=1999 |page=397     <!-- |editor1-link=Elizabeth A. Brennan --> |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |editor1-first=Elizabeth A. |editor1-last=Brennan     <!-- |editor2-link=Elizabeth C. Clarage --> |editor2-first=Elizabeth C. |editor2-last=Clarage
    |isbn=1-57356-111-8 |access-date=2014-03-12
    |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA397 ))</ref><ref name=Moody>((cite web
    |title=Oscar Griffin Jr. – Moody College of Communication
    |publisher=University of Texas at Austin
    |access-date=2014-03-12
    |url=http://moody.utexas.edu/alumni/pulitzers/oscar-griffin-jr
    |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140312070815/http://moody.utexas.edu/alumni/pulitzers/oscar-griffin-jr
    |url-status=dead
    |archive-date=March 12, 2014
    ))</ref><ref>
  ((cite web
    |title=Noted & Quoted - Alumni - Harvard Business School
    |date=March 1, 2012 |publisher=Harvard Business School
    |access-date=2014-03-12 |url=https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=821))</ref><ref>
  ((cite news
    |newspaper=The Courier of Montgomery County |title=Oscar O'Neal Griffin Jr. Obituary
    |access-date=2014-03-12 |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/courier/obituary.aspx?pid=154819097))</ref><ref>
  ((cite news
    |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |author-link=Douglas Martin (journalist) |first=Douglas |last=Martin
    |title=Oscar Griffin Jr., 78, Pulitzer Prize Winner Who Brought Down Scheming Texas Tycoon, Dies
    |date=December 10, 2011 |access-date=2014-03-12
    |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/us/oscar-griffin-jr-78-pulitzer-prize-winner-who-brought-down-scheming-texas-tycoon-dies.html?_r=0))</ref><ref>
  ((cite news
    |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |title=Of note: Don DeVito, Oscar Griffin Jr., Gary Speed
    |date=November 29, 2011 |access-date=2014-03-12
    |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/of-note-don-devito-oscar-griffin-jr-gary-speed/2011/11/29/gIQATJdY9N_story.html))</ref>
))

'''Oscar O'Neal Griffin Jr.''' (April 28, 1933 – November 23, 2011) was an American journalist.

==Early life and education==
Griffin was born in [[Daisetta, Texas]], and obtained his degree from the [[University of Texas]] in 1958. In 1982, he completed [[Harvard Business School]]'s [[executive education]] program for Owner/President Management (OPM).

==Career==
Griffin was the editor of the [[Pecos, Texas|Pecos]] ''Independent and Enterprise''. During his time here, he was a reporter and editor. Prior to that time, he served in the Army in the 1950s. After graduating from the [[University of Texas]], he worked at a number of small newspapers before his stint at the [[Pecos, Texas]] ''Independent and Enterprise''. In 1962, he began working for the ''[[Houston Chronicle]]'', where he was responsible for covering the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

Griffin was assistant director of Public Affairs for the [[U.S. Department of Transportation]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] (1969-1974.) After coming back to Texas, he founded Griffin Well Service, an oil company in [[El Campo, Texas|El Campo]].<ref name=Moody/>

==Awards and honors==
Griffin won the [[1963 Pulitzer Prize]] for Local Reporting (No Edition Time), as editor at the ''Independent and Enterprise'', for directing its investigation of the fraud scandal involving [[Billie Sol Estes]] in 1962.<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1963 "1963 Winners"]. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved October 26, 2013.</ref><ref>((cite news
 |newspaper=The Pecos Independent and Enterprise |date=March 1, 1962 |title=Tank transactions soar to $34 million
 |author-link=Oscar Griffin Jr. |first=Oscar |last=Griffin Jr. |access-date=2014-03-07 |url=http://www.pecos.net/news/arch62/030162.htm
)) (Third in a series)</ref>

==Family==
Griffin was married to the former Patricia Lamb for 56 years. Together they had three daughters and a son: Gwendolyn Pryor, Amanda Ward, Marguerite Horne, and Gregory Griffin. They also had seven grandchildren.

==Death==
Griffin died in [[New Waverly, Texas]], where he lived, on November 23, 2011, at the age of 78, of cancer.<ref name=nytimes>((cite web|last=Martin|first=Douglas|title=Oscar Griffin Jr., 78, Pulitzer Prize Winner Winner Who Brought Down Scheming Texas Tycoon, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/us/oscar-griffin-jr-78-pulitzer-prize-winner-who-brought-down-scheming-texas-tycoon-dies.html?_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=16 July 2013))</ref>

==Publications==
*((cite book |lccn=86070715 |title=The three wars of Roy Benavidez |author-link1=Roy P. Benavidez |last1=Benavidez |first1=Roy P. |author-link2=Oscar Griffin Jr. |first2=Oscar |last2=Griffin
  |location=[[San Antonio, Texas]] |publisher=Corona Pub. Co. |year=1986 |isbn=0931722586))

==References==
((reflist |25em))

==External links==
* ((LCAuth|n86107903|Oscar Griffin|1|))

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