WW2 -- World War II Veterans as Journalists:
Allen Neuharth (Army, USA Today) and Mike Wallace (Navy, CBS News), Moderated by Thomas Doherty:
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- Description of Pictures: Allen Neuharth served with General George Patton’s Third Army in Europe. Following the war, he worked as a reporter for several newspapers in South Dakota, and then held management positions with the Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press, and Rochester Times-Union. As chairman and chief executive officer of the Gannett Company, Neuharth founded USA Today in 1982. He is also the founder and senior advisory chairman of the Freedom Forum.
Mike Wallace served in the U.S. Navy as a communications officer from 1943 to 1946. Following the war, he worked as a news reporter for a radio station in Chicago, but moved to New York in 1951. Known as a probing interviewer and reporter, Wallace has achieved great renown with television programs such as Nightbeat, Mike Wallace Interviews, and (since 1968) 60 Minutes.
Thomas Doherty chairs the Film Studies Program at Brandeis University, and is the author of Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II (1999), and Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (2003).
Mike Wallace was confrontational as always at the World War II discussion.
He started by saying a little about his life in World War II and then says WW2 was a "just" war -- one that people could justify and align with. He said that he didn't think the war in Iraq was a just war. It was being fought for the wrong reasons by people without clear goals.
I'm sitting there in the front row, getting a bunch of this on video between taking my stills and clapping. After awhile, people in the audience started shouting at him. It's a room of veterans and, despite all of the evidence, they have to believe the war is just if people (well, Americans) are dying. (I presume most religions consider it murder unless it is just.) Mike acknowledged he was off-topic but kept coming back to it.
Afterward, I was getting my autograph and he said, "You were in the front row, weren't you?" I said "Yes, I was the annoying person who kept taking pictures." He replied, "No, you were the one who was clapping the loudest."
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- WW2F_040528_004.JPG: The guy in the lavender shirt is Ralph Davidson. He had been editor of Time magazine and then was in charge of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The man in the striped shirt is Art Buchwald, humorist.
- WW2F_040528_008.JPG: Left to right: Allen Neuharth, Ralph Davidson, and Art Buchwald
- WW2F_040528_013.JPG: Ralph Davidson, Art Buchwald, and Allen Neuharth @ World War II tribute
- WW2F_040528_021.JPG: Ralph Davidson, Art Buchwald and Bruce Guthrie @ World War II tribute
- WW2F_040528_024.JPG: Bruce Guthrie, Art Buchwald
- WW2F_040528_034.JPG: The couple with Margot Lebow are Barb and Bill Roy, of Naples FL. We met previously at an Udvar-Hazy event.
- WW2F_040528_058.JPG: Mike Wallace @ World War II tribute
- WW2F_040528_072.JPG: Left to right: Thomas Doherty, Allen Neuharth, and Mike Wallace
- WW2F_040528_305.JPG: Mike Wallace
- WW2F_040528_417.JPG: Allen Neuharth, the founder of USA Today, died in 2003. He's shown here with Mike Wallace at "World War II Veterans as Journalists" talk in 2004 during "Tribute to a Generation: National World War II Reunion" in honor of the opening of the World War II Memorial on the Mall.
- WW2F_040528_588.JPG: Mike Wallace, Bruce Guthrie @ World War II tribute
- WW2F_040528_601.JPG: Margot Lebow and Allen Neuharth @ World War II tribute
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