Robert L. Healy, 84, a political reporter at the Boston Globe who in 1962 nearly ended Edward M. Kennedy's first U.S. Senate campaign by unearthing news that the candidate had been expelled from Harvard University for cheating on an exam as an undergraduate, died June 5 at his home in Jupiter, Fla.
Healy started as a copy boy in the Globe newsroom in the early 1940s and rose to become the paper's executive editor.
Bob Ellison, 67, a radio reporter who was the first black journalist to serve as president of the White House Correspondents Association, died May 24 in Washington. He spent 14 years as the White House correspondent for the Sheridan Broadcasting Network, later the American Urban Radio Networks.
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