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Jack Ford

Biography

Jack Ford

Jack Ford is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist, author, college professor, award-winning documentary film producer, and former trial attorney. An original anchor at the launch of Court TV, he was the co-anchor of the "Weekend Today" show, and a substitute anchor for "Nightly News" and "Meet the Press."

Currently he is a CBS news correspondent for "60 Minutes Sports" and the co-host of "MetroFocus" on PBS. He has received two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a National Headliner Award, and the March of Dimes FDR Award.

A graduate of Yale University and the Fordham University School of Law, he is a visiting lecturer at Yale, NYU, and the University of Virginia, where he teaches a seminar on famous trials.

Jack Ford

Books by Jack Ford

Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears
by Jack Ford - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Lee Carson, former war correspondent, is frustrated that her journalism career has been relegated to society events and fashion stories. But when she receives a tip about a Russian spy in a high-ranking government position at the height of the Cold War. As war rages on across Europe, 22-year-old Lee Carson is waging a private battle of her own. An American-born correspondent for the International News Service, Lee is determined to cover the war from the field. But no woman will be allowed near the front lines. Lee is not easily dissuaded. And as the Allied forces prepare to take the fight to the enemy, her gift for boosting public morale is seen a valuable weapon. Assigned to cover the build-up to the invasion of Nazi-held Europe, she constantly wrangles with authorities in order to get to the heart of the action.