BGuthrie Photos: Newseum -- Special -- Opening day event

Newseum -- Special -- Opening day event:

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Description of Pictures: The official opening day! There was no way I was going to be up in time for the real opening but I did what I could. While I was in the building, I met Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister of Canada, and saw others including the actors who perform in the 4-D movie at the Newseum. I also saw Brian Greenspun, the CEO of the Greenspun Corporation and the editor of the Las Vegas Sun. Finally, I saw Charles Overby, the CEO of the Newseum.

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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:
1. NEWSO_080411_004.JPG: Opening day!
2. NEWSO_080411_039.JPG: The guy that everyone is looking at is Charles Overby. His bio on the web site says: Charles L. Overby Chief Executive Officer, Freedom Forum, Newseum and Diversity Institute President and chief executive officer from 1989 to 1997. Trustee since 1990. Overby joined the Freedom Forum (then the Gannett Foundation) in 1989 after 16 years as a reporter, editor and corporate executive with Gannett Co., Inc. He has worked at newspapers in Nashville, Tenn.; Cocoa Beach, Fla.; and Jackson, Miss. Under his leadership, Gannett's Clarion-Ledger in Jackson won the Pulitzer Prize Public Service Award for news and editorials on education reform in Mississippi in 1983. He was vice president for news and communications for Gannett and served on the management committees of Gannett and USA Today.
3. NEWSO_080411_079.JPG: This was the line to get into the place. Admission for opening day was free. After that, it would be $20. I already had a membership to the museum so I went off to the National Gallery of Art and spent a few hours there waiting for the lines to go down before coming back.
4. NEWSO_080411_156.JPG: Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister of Canada
5. NEWSO_080411_160.JPG: Brian Mulroney, Gene Policinsky
6. NEWSO_080411_162.JPG: Brian Mulroney and folks from the embassy
7. NEWSO_080411_193.JPG: Large crowds were everywhere including the 9/11 exhibit. This is the broadcast tower that was atop one of the towers.
8. NEWSO_080411_204.JPG: ???, Brian Greenspun, and Sonya Gavankar. This is the Hank Greenspun Terrace. It was named after H.M. "Hank" Greenspun (1909-1989) who had a celebrated career as a leading public advocate and crusading founder and publisher of the Las Vegas Sun daily newspaper. Under his leadership, the Sun was one of the first newspapers to denounce the unfairness and lack of proof underlying Sen. Joe McCarthy's accusations of communist influence in the U.S. government. His son, Brian, is the CEO of the Greenspun Corporation and the editor of the Las Vegas Sun.
9. NEWSO_080411_237.JPG: This was where the big "opening day" banner was hung
10. NEWSO_080411_250.JPG: These are some of the actors from the 4-D movie
11. NEWSO_080411_257.JPG: Some of the actors from the 4-D movie
12. NEWSO_080411_297.JPG: There was a massive line for getting your caricature done so I skipped that.
13. NEWSO_080411_310.JPG: In the previous week, they had commemorated a couple of new entries on the journalism memorial wall.
14. NEWSO_080411_344.JPG: They were rolling up the "opening day" banner here
15. NEWSO_080411_380.JPG: This is a "be a journalist" section. I went to a talk by Roger Mudd later that week and he mentioned this exhibit and that it was *never* that simple.
16. NEWSO_080411_460.JPG: Did I mention crowds on opening day?
17. NEWSO_080411_564.JPG: Note the "opening day" banner is gone. Previous pictures show where it was hung on the sixth-floor terrace and rolled up on the second floor terrace.
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