The immortal Katharine Graham (1917-2001) of the Washington Post will be honored by a U.S. postage stamp next year:
Had the honor of joining Katharine Graham to sign copies of Meg Greenfield’s posthumously-published memoir “Washington” (to which we had both contributed) at Politics and Prose bookstore DC three months before her passing in 2001:
Katharine Graham was one inspiration for “Mrs. Pynchon,” newspaper publisher in “Lou Grant” (CBS, 1977-1982):
Demonstrating her range, Nancy Marchand (1928-2000) went from playing the Katharine Graham-inspired newspaper publisher in “Lou Grant” to the very different role of Tony’s mother Livia in HBO’s “The Sopranos”:
Video: Opening for “Lou Grant” (1977) showed how newspapers went from forest to birdcage:
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Sixty years ago today, two heroic, courageous and idealistic young Black Americans, Vivian Malone and James Hood, entered the University of Alabama after JFK federalized the Alabama National Guard and Governor George Wallace stepped aside after trying to bar them:
During a partially-improvised Oval Office speech, JFK declares civil rights "a moral issue" and pledges to send comprehensive bill to Congress, sixty years ago tonight:
Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, was murdered outside his home, hours after the civil rights speech JFK gave sixty years ago tonight:
Now why would anyone possibly think that a sudden, loud, unexplained boom in Washington DC on a Sunday afternoon might alarm anyone?
We take you now to the Ellipse, near the White House in Washington DC, where a flying saucer has landed. U.S. military tanks have rolled up, and a nervous crowd has gathered. . .
Someone has just stepped out of the flying saucer that landed near the White House after we heard that boom. He's shouting, "Take us to your leader -- Truman!"