Final exam reminder

Just a reminder that your final exam is tomorrow, Tuesday at 8 a.m. Bring a red scantron form and a pencil.

Be sure to be on time as after the first person turns in his or her exam, no one will be admitted to take the exam.

Good luck!

Exam Reminder

Hello. Just a reminder that your third exam is tomorrow, Thursday.

Your final exam is next Tuesday at 8 a.m.

Be sure to be on time as after the first person turns in his or her exam, no one will be admitted to take the exam.

Helen Thomas

During the years Helen Thomas covered President Kennedy, she was the first woman to close a presidential news conference with the traditional "Thank you, Mr. President."

Thomas served as President of the Women's National Press Club in 1959 - 60, and she was the first woman officer of the National Press Club after it opened its doors to women members for the first time in 90 years. In addition, Thomas became the first woman officer of the White House Correspondents Association in its 50 years of existence, and served as its first woman president in 1975-76. Thomas also became the first woman member of the Gridiron Club in its history, and the first woman to be elected President in 1993.

Here is more about her.

New York Times & leaking documents

CNN

Hostage Crisis

Here is a PBS project on the 444 days. Here is another installment.

Nightline

No international story other than war dominated American television news for as long as the Iranian hostage crisis. The seizure of the staff of the U.S. embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979 marked the beginning of fourteen months of concentrated, dramatic, and controversial news coverage that affected both public understanding of the hostage crisis and government efforts to resolve it.

Here is a look back at Nightline 30 years after it was created.