Worth Bingham, was groomed by the family to take over as newspaper publisher while his brother, Barry Jr. would assume control of the family-owned WHAS radio and TV stations. He was a 1954 graduate of Harvard College, and served three years as a Navy Officer before working as a reporter, first in Minneapolis and then in San Francisco. He joined the Washington bureau of the Louisville Courier Journal and Times in 1961, where his reporting included, among other things, a series on "Our Costly Congress," which was widely reprinted and earned him a Headliner Award of the National Headliner Club. After two years in the paper's Washington bureau, he returned to Louisville to join the executive staff, and became assistant to the publisher. Married, with two children, he was also active in numerous civic endeavors. He was a good-looking football star with a pronounced party-boy streak who was kicked out of Exeter for drinking when he was 16. One summer morning, while vacationing with his family in Nantucket, he decided to drive to the beach to surf, placing his board horizontally across the backseat of his convertible. When one protruding end hit a parked car, the whole surfboard swung around and crushed his neck.
Worth Bingham, was groomed by the family to take over as newspaper publisher while his brother, Barry Jr. would assume control of the family-owned WHAS radio and TV stations. He was a 1954 graduate of Harvard College, and served three years as a Navy Officer before working as a reporter, first in Minneapolis and then in San Francisco. He joined the Washington bureau of the Louisville Courier Journal and Times in 1961, where his reporting included, among other things, a series on "Our Costly Congress," which was widely reprinted and earned him a Headliner Award of the National Headliner Club. After two years in the paper's Washington bureau, he returned to Louisville to join the executive staff, and became assistant to the publisher. Married, with two children, he was also active in numerous civic endeavors. He was a good-looking football star with a pronounced party-boy streak who was kicked out of Exeter for drinking when he was 16. One summer morning, while vacationing with his family in Nantucket, he decided to drive to the beach to surf, placing his board horizontally across the backseat of his convertible. When one protruding end hit a parked car, the whole surfboard swung around and crushed his neck.
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