Legendary Wisconsin journalist, who for half a century held Wisconsin's politicians accountable to the voters, who is remembered for his "4th of July story" in 1951 during the height of the anti-Communist campaign by Joe McCarthy, when he attempted to get people to sign a typed copy of the Declaration of Independence, but was refused by nearly everybody because they were afraid of being accused of being Communist, died Nov. 26, 2003 in Madison, WI at age 87.