Jim Wooten

{{Short description|American journalist}}

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Jim Wooten is an American retired journalist for ABC News and an author.{{cite web|url=http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143035992,00.html|title=We Are All the Same|publisher=Penguin|accessdate=21 November 2013}} He won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 2005 for We Are All the Same.{{cite web|url=http://rfkcenter.org/2005-qperilous-timesq-by-jeffrey-stone-and-qwe-are-all-the-sameq-by-jim-wooten-9 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131121221634/http://rfkcenter.org/2005-qperilous-timesq-by-jeffrey-stone-and-qwe-are-all-the-sameq-by-jim-wooten-9 |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 November 2013 |title=2005: "Perilous Times", by Jeffrey Stone; and "We Are All the Same", by Jim Wooten |publisher=Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights |accessdate=21 November 2013 }}{{cite web|url=http://hepg.org/her/abstract/94|title=Editor's Review: We Are All the Same by Jim Wooten|last=Nalkur|first=Priya G.|work=Harvard Educational Press|accessdate=21 November 2013}}