Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist and non-fiction author. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter and is now an associate editor of the Post.
While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward was teamed up with Carl Bernstein; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by Gene Roberts.
Woodward continued to work for The Washington Post after his reporting on Watergate. He has since written 16 books on American politics, 12 of which have been bestsellers.
Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of Jane (née Upshur) and Alfred Eno Woodward II, chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court. He was a resident of Wheaton, Illinois. He enrolled in Yale University with a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) scholarship, and studied history and English literature. While at Yale, Woodward joined the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and was a member of the prestigious secret society Book and Snake. He received his B.A. degree in 1965, and began a five-year tour of duty in the United States Navy. In his navy career Woodward served in the Office of Naval Intelligence, where he was a part of a group, which briefed top intelligence officials; at one time, he was close to Admiral Robert O. Welander, being communications officer on the USS Fox under Welander's command.
Bob Woodward (March 5, 1909–February 7, 1972) was an American actor of film and television.
Born in Oklahoma, Woodward co-starred in the western California Mail (1936), Pioneer Justice (1947), Range Renegades (1948), and Junction City (1952). Woodward played the role of the stagecoach driver in the two television series, The Gene Autry Show in 43 episodes (1950–55) and Buffalo Bill, Jr. in 20 episodes (1955-1956). He was cast as a henchman on the series The Range Rider in 24 episodes (1951–53). He also appeared in the syndicated series, Annie Oakley. In the 1950s and 1960s, he guest-starred in The Lone Ranger in nine episodes, Tales of Wells Fargo in seven episodes, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp in three episodes.