Daniszewski ’s journalism career began in 1977 as an Associated Press stringer at the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia while still a student at the University of Pennsylvania . He joined the AP ’s Philadelphia bureau full-time in 1979 , and transferred to the statehouse bureau in Harrisburg in 1980 . He reported on the murder of mobster Angelo Bruno , Three Mile Island nuclear accident , the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal , the Centralia mine fire , the Mariel boatlift , and the campaigns of Arlen Specter and Jim Heinz . He also participated in covering the 1980 Olympics in Moscow , which were boycotted by the United States
Three Mile Island nuclear accident
Three Mile Island accident
John Daniszewski