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- December 12th, 2012 – Deadline Artists on Radio West KUER
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- November 23rd, 2011 – Deadline Artists on NPR Morning Edition
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- October 30th, 2011 – In My Library – Bill O’Reilly – NY Post
- October 29th, 2011 – Errol Louis guest blogs on Reader’s Almanac
Louisiana’s Kingfish Lies in State—Joseph Cookman—New York Post—9/12/1935

[Louisiana’s populist governor and senator Huey Long—called by some an American Mussolini and immortalized in Robert Penn Warren’s novel All the King’s Men, was assassinated in the statehouse he commissioned.] The Louisiana peasant who became Louisiana’s king is on view … Continue reading
The Murder of President Lincoln—Noah Brooks—Sacramento Daily Union—4/16/1865

No living man ever dreamed that it was possible that the intense joy of the nation over the recent happy deliverance from war could be or would be so soon turned to grief more intense and bitter than ever before … Continue reading
The Dempsey-Willard Fight—Grantland Rice—New York Tribune—7/5/1919

Jack Dempsey proved to be the greatest fighting tornado, in a boxing way, the game has ever known, when in nine minutes of actual combat today, he crushed Jess Willard into a shapeless man of gore and battered flesh. One … Continue reading
Mata Hari Falls Before Firing Squad—Henry G. Wales—International News Service—10/19/1917

Mata Hari, which is Javanese for Eye-of-the-Morning, is dead. She was shot as a spy by a firing squad of Zouaves at the Vincennes Barracks. She died facing death literally, for she refused to be blindfolded. Gertrud Margarete Zelle, for … Continue reading
Jackie’s Debut—Mike Royko—Chicago Sun-Times—10/25/1972

[Mike Royko wrote this reminiscence on the day of Jackie Robinson’s death.] All that Saturday, the wise men of the neighborhood, who sat in chairs on the sidewalk outside the tavern, had talked about what it would do to baseball. … Continue reading
The Subway Rebel—Frederick B. Edwards—New York Herald Tribune—11/20/1924

Benjamin Mehlig, a small man with an office at 132 Fulton Street, who had a habit of leaving the West Side Interborough subway at 157th Street and Broadway every evening at a little before 6 o’clock, set his teeth firmly … Continue reading
Steve Lopez – Man of the Streets, in Three Suites – Los Angeles Times – 12/4/05

First Suite: The Apartment He’s a lucky man, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers. At least in some ways. Despite the imagined voices and daily flutter of scattered thoughts, he has a burning passion. For him, the city is an orchestra, a labyrinth … Continue reading
Chris Rose – Open Letter to America – The New Orleans Times Picayune – 2005

DEAR America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We’re South Louisiana. We have arrived on your doorstep on short notice and we apologize for that, but we never were much for waiting around for invitations. We’re not much on formalities … Continue reading
Marjorie Williams – The Halloween of My Dreams – Washington Post – 11/3/04

I was the one who insisted on the body glitter. Normally, you understand, I am a mother who pulls her daughter’s shirt down and tucks it into her waistband every morning to keep her from showing her navel to the … Continue reading
Leonard Pitts Jr. – We’ll Go Forward From This Moment – Miami Herald – 9/11/01

It’s my job to have something to say. They pay me to provide words that help make sense of that which troubles the American soul. But in this moment of airless shock when hot tears sting disbelieving eyes, the only … Continue reading