Reguly won his first National Newspaper Award in 1964 for tracking down union leader Hal Banks, a fugitive who had fled to Brooklyn, New York. He won his second Award in 1966 for tracking down and interviewing
Gerda Munsinger, an
East German woman at the center of a
Canadian political sex scandal. The
Star then gave him a coveted posting as Washington D.C. bureau chief, where he moved with his family in the summer of 1966. In May 1967, Reguly was sent to
South Vietnam to cover the
Vietnam War, then at its height. He filed dozens of stories for the
Star reporting on American combat efforts, starting with
Operation Hickory, the first U.S. invasion of the DMZ (the
Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam). Reguly also witnessed and reported on the forced relocation of
Montagnard tribespeople in the
Central Highlands, telling his readers that such operations might be "creating more
Viet Cong". After returning to the United States, Reguly covered the
1968 US presidential campaign. According to his son, Eric, "the only event he covered that truly shattered him was
Bobby Kennedy's assassination" at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. (He was standing less than 10 metres from Kennedy when the senator was shot.) Reguly garnered a third National Newspaper Award for his coverage of
anti-war protests and race riots. In 1977, Reguly left the
Star to join the staff of the
Toronto Sun, where he specialized in investigative pieces on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In 1981, he left the
Sun and became a spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. After his retirement, he became a successful freelance writer, writing mainly for outdoors magazines. In 2001, he was nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award for an article in
Outdoor Canada magazine. ==Personal life==