Dine with a legend. JAWdess Peggy Simpson reported 17 years for the Associated Press starting in 1962 in Dallas. She was transferred to Washington, DC, to cover a Southwestern regional beat for the AP in Congress in 1968. She covered the assassination in Dallas of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, including being an eyewitness in the Dallas jail to the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1975, Simpson covered the United Nations Conference on Women in Mexico City. When the AP was sued for gender discrimination, she joined the lawsuit. Her bureau chief called her a “stupid bitch.” Simpson also has covered national politics for the Boston Herald and national economic issues for Hearst Newspapers for five years. She opened a Washington bureau for Ms. Magazine to cover the women’s political rights movement. When Eastern Europe was transitioning into democracy in the 1990s, Simpson covered the transformation.