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Craig Flournoy
John Craig Flournoy (born June 26, 1951 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA) is a journalism professor at Southern Methodist University and a former investigative reporter for "The Dallas Morning News", at which his work included coverage of the latter portion of the civil rights movement.
He has taught since 2003 at SMU, where in 1986, he received a Master of Arts degree in history. He formerly taught courses on computer-assisted reporting, investigative reporting, history of American journalism, and communication law
Shreveport municipal auditor, parish tax assessor, and coroner, at a time when medical examiners in Louisiana need not have been physicians. Flournoy was the paternal grandson of 19th century Sheriff Alonzo Flournoy.
Flournoy was educated in public schools in Shreveport and thereafter attended an unnamed business college. A Louisiana National Guardsman, Flournoy was a United States Army veteran of World War I, with assignment on the Mexican border. He was also as an instructor in a machine gun school at Camp Hancock, Georgia, and was commissioned a lieutenant