John Murmann Hightower, recipient of the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, attended the University of Tennessee from 1927 to 1929. He began his reporting career with the Knoxville News-Sentinel, then moved to Nashville to work for the Associated Press as its Tennessee editor, and in 1936 transferred to AP's Washington Bureau. Hightower earned a reputation as a perceptive reporter for his articles predicting the break between President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur. In 1952, Hightower also received the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the annual award of the national journalism society, Sigma Delta Chi, making him the first journalist to win these three prestigious awards in one year. Hightower retired in 1971 and moved to New Mexico, where he taught journalism at the University of New Mexico and wrote a column for the Santa Fe New Mexican. He died in Santa Fe in 1987. Hightower was designated a special correspondent by the Associated Press and was a recipient of the Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, the Commander's Cross, and the Order of Merit, from the Federal Republic of Germany. The Washington Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists elected him to its Hall of Fame in 1980.