Word: eyewitnesser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
At the first sign of trouble in the Watts area of Los Angeles last summer, the L.A. Times swung into action. It took some 50 reporters and photographers off other jobs and poured them into the riot-torn streets. To get as much of the inside story as possible, the...
The first test of will happened only four months after Washington's Inauguration, when he dutifully called upon the Senate to ask its advice and consent to a treaty with Southern Indians. He brought with him his Secretary of War to explain the details. The treaty was read aloud...
Died. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 90, chairman since 1954 of the National Geographic Society and editor until then of its magazine, an ardent conservationist, traveler and journalist, who spiked the once stuffily academic Geographic with handsome color spreads and eyewitness reports, including the first conquest of Mount Everest, thereby hiking circulation...
The Report, issued by Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.) on behalf of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Internal Security Subcommittee, included six "Eyewitness Accounts of Tech-Ins." Five of them were taken from newspapers or were signed by correspondents. But the sixth, which dealt with a tech-in at...
As Historian Bruce Catton points out in a glowing foreword, the authors have also given a good example of what the raw material of history looks like, for they offer both the pertinent and the bogus. They give the conflicting eyewitness accounts of the President's murder and the...