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Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip Makes Timely Debut on PBS
“I remain your New York corespondent Walter Winchell, who can sit at his window and review those passing below. He sees everyone he likes… or doesn’t. He can either drop a flower… or a flower pot.”–Walter Winchell. If names like … Continue reading
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Tagged American Masters Walter Winchell The Power of Gossip, Ben Loeterman, Ed Sullivan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Josephine Baker, Journalism, PBS, Radio Personalities, Senator Joseph McCarthy, The New York Daily Mirror, The Plot Against America, Walter Winchell
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Gun Control and the War at Home
Today is Pearl Harbor Day It’s hard to believe that 74 years have passed since a stealth attack by Japanese air and naval forces decimated our U.S. naval base at Oahu Island’s Pearl Harbor. It was a day–December 7, 1941–that would forever be stained … Continue reading
Teddy Toplines Episodes 1-3 of The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’re well aware that the first episode of Ken Burns’ monumental and much-ballyhooed seven-part series, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, debuts tonight on PBS (Sunday, September 14, 2014, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. ET). It … Continue reading