in memorium
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RIP, Mike Peters
My Welsh family loved Tom Jones, of course. But I came of age digging a newer generation of music from the homeland, The Alarm and Super Furry Animals and a few Welsh-language bands. The Alarm, from Rhyl in NOrth Wales, rocked it hard in the ‘80s thanks to frontman Mike Peters, who died at age Continue reading
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Edward R. Murrow’s Powerful Buchenwald Broadcast
Eighty years ago this afternoon, legendary CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow delivered one of the most important broadcasts of the 20th century, a report on his visit three days earlier to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. It took Murrow, as cool a journalist as they come, that long to process the horror. This 9-minute broadcast Continue reading
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FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 80 years ago today
“Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.” Eleanor Roosevelt, after telling Harry S Truman that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was dead and that he was now president. Eleanor Roosevelt, truth teller. Continue reading
About Me
Journalist and writer. Loves writing, storytelling, books, typewriters. Always trying to find my line. Oh, and here’s where I am now.
Nows and Forevers 