history
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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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Why history (and translation) rock
If you read one thing today, then it should be this. It’s fascinating. 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
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Journalist and writer. Loves writing, storytelling, books, typewriters. Always trying to find my line. Oh, and here’s where I am now.
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