{"id":1914,"date":"2019-08-24T22:14:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T02:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/?page_id=1914"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:12:36","slug":"j-robert-bob-crumpler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/hof\/j-robert-bob-crumpler\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Robert \u201cBob\u201d Crumpler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\">\n<h3 class=\"lead\">Class of 1946<\/h3>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\"><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-4\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/HOF-Crumpler-300x415.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot image of J. Robert \u201cBob\u201d Crumpler\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-8\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p>Born in North Carolina and reared in West Virginia, Crumpler graduated from Marshall University in 1946 after an interruption of four years for military service during World War II. He worked as a reporter for\u00a0<em>The Huntington Advertiser<\/em>\u00a0and for\u00a0<em>The Charleston Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0until 1950, then joined\u00a0<em>The Louisville Courier Journal &amp; Times<\/em>. At\u00a0\u00a0<em>The Times\u00a0<\/em>he served in the capacities of reporter, assistant city editor, city editor, and for nine years was its assistant managing editor. Crumpler became ombudsman in 1981 and dealt with reader questions and complaints, monitored news columns for accuracy and fairness, and served as an in-house critic.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 1946<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":1654,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-legacy.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1914","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1914\/revisions\/3124"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}