Personal Life and Education
Wilford was born October 4, 1933, in Murray, Kentucky, and attended Grove High School across the border in nearby Paris, Tennessee. After high school graduation, he attended Lambuth College for a year, then in fall 1952 transferred to the University of Tennessee (UT). He received a B.S. in journalism from UT in 1955 and an M.A. in political science from Syracuse University.
After graduation from Syracuse, Wilford spent two years with the U.S. Army in West Germany.
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