Exam 2 Today!

Hello. Just a reminder that your second exam is today, Thursday, as noted in your syllabus. This cannot be rescheduled.

Review the study guide and check your notes and the reading. Also, take a look through this blog.

** You may not begin to take the exam after the first exam is turned in - BE ON TIME.

Bring your scantron and a pencil. Good luck!

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

More civil rights coverage

Here is a link to a documentary clip about the Little Rock Nine, fifty years later.

Here is a link to footage on sit-ins in Miami.

Birmingham Church Boming

Black and ethnic press

Here is a link to the documentary, The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, shown on PBS.

Pay extra attention to Charlotta Bass, Robert L. Vann, John Henry Murphy, Ida B. Wells and Robert S. Abbott.

Media coverage of the Watts riots

Here is background on the Watts riots.

Freedom Riders

Civil Rights Coverage in Southern Newspapers

The Lexington Herald-Leader featured a prominent clarification on its front page in July 2004, apologizing for the newspaper's failures in covering the 1960s civil rights movement.

Here's a story about the apology.

Here is link to a multi-media civil rights comparative history project from the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Thursday's speaker

Here is a clip of Thursday's speaker, Jerry Mitchell, from the Colbert Report.

Syllabus change

Hello. Just a reminder that we will be going over chapter 7 on Tuesday and that journalist Jerry Mitchell will be speaking to our class on Thursday. Please be on time.

Because we will have class on Tuesday, the study guide will be given out on that day.

In addition, Mitchell will be speaking in the Student Union's Pegasus Ballroom on October 19th starting at 6 p.m. as the COS Distinguished Speaker. This presentation is open to the public.

Exam 1

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Watergate & Deep Throat

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Watergate & the Washington Post

Here is a link to the papers of Woodward and Bernstein located at the University of Texas. It includes primary documents, including their original notes on Watergate, and an extended interview.

Thursday's class

Hello. As noted in the syllabus, there is no class meeting on Thursday. Instead, you are to watch this short documentary about Dallas women's page editor Vivian Castleberry. Here is a link - click on the third video on the middle/right side of your screen. It's about 30 minutes long.

As you watch, take notes on the following and bring it to class next Tuesday:

1.) How did World War II impact her career?
2.) How did she redefine women's news in Dallas?
3.) What were some of the groundbreaking stories that she covered?
4.) What methods did she use to make change at her newspaper?
5.) What impact did she have on her community?

I hope you enjoy learning about Vivian. She is a favorite of mine.

Pentagon Papers

Kent State Massacre

Walter Cronkite

Watch CBS News Videos Online

Here is the text of the Cronkite broadcast on the Vietnam War mentioned in the book.

Here a story about Cronkite and the FBI files.

Vietnam War, the media and President Johnson

Here is a link to images and an analysis of the Vietnam War, the media and President Johnson.

Dickey Chapelle

Photojournalist Dickey Chapelle (1919-1965) became one of the first female war correspondents, covering World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam Here is more about her life.



On the morning of November 4, 1965, Chapelle was killed by a land mine while on patrol with a platoon, becoming the first war correspondent killed in Vietnam and the first female reporter to die in combat.

Eddie Adams & Vietnam War