Capitalism. We conclude tonights primetime programming at 11 00 eastern with james votess book Freedom National taking a look at slavery 18611865. Visit booktv. Org for more on this weekends television schedule. Next on booktv, barbara matusow, editor of scooped it recounts the life of her career Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter jack nelson who died in 2009 at the age of 80. Barbara matusow is joined by former president jimmy carter, former mayor of atlanta and u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations andrew young and former Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson. It is a discussion of jack nelsons memoir scoop the evolution of a southern reporter. It is about an hour. Good evening, everyone, good to have everyone here. My name is Hank Klibanoff and i will be moderating this wonderful panel tonight, as director of the Journalism Program at emory and coauthor of the book about coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, featured tags quite prominently. First of all i want to thank the Carter
Carter library and museum for hosting this and cosponsoring this and also the Emory University library, particularly the manuscript and archives and rare books library. Which costs papers and wisdom of a great number of journalists, white, africanamerican, of all sorts and we are so pleased five of those are Pulitzer Prize winners and the latest among them is at the 11. Barbara matusow is so generous and made jack nelsons papers in our position and there is some rich history and i encourage everyone to take a look at them. We are here to celebrate the life, memoir, papers of jack nelson with people who knew him extremely well. Jack is a man of the enormous influence and consequence in the nation. The story of jack nelson for those who dont know is a story of news reporting and the latter half of the 20th century. If you look at his career, starting off, he was born in alabama across the state line, moves as a child from biloxi where he starts telling newspapers, he was a newspaper boy,
The dark side of the personal finance industry tonight at 10 00 on after words on cspan2. And look for more book tv online like us on facebook. Next on book tv, barbara matters seldom editor of scooped recounts the life and career of her late husband, a pulitzer prizewinning reporter jack nelson who died in 2009 at the age of 80. Been joined by former president jimmy carter, former mayor of atlanta and u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations andrew young and former Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson in the discussion of jack nelsons memoir, scoop. The evolution of a seven reporter. It is about an hour. Good evening, everyone. Its good to have everyone here. My name is sink, and i will be moderating this wonderful panel tonight. And the director of the Journalism Program at emory. And coauthor of a book about News Coverage of the civilRights Movement, featured jack quite prominently. First of all, i want to thank the Carter Library and museum for hosting this one and for cosponso
And lived with the dominant culture and so some of the stuff that ive learned from that i put back in my cartoons. Next on book tv, Barbara Matusow editor of scoop recounts the life and career of her late husband pulitzer prizewinning reporter jack nelson who died in 2009 at the age of 80. Ms. Matusow is joined by former president jimmy carter, former mayor of atlanta and u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations andrew young and former Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson in the discussion of jack nelsons ms. Moore scoop the evolution of a southern reporter. Its about an hour good evening everyone. My name is haint and i will be moderating this wonderful panel tonight. The director of the Journalism Program at emory and a coauthor of a book about News Coverage in the Civil Rights Movement that featured jack quite prominently. First i want to thank the Carter Library and museum for hosting this and cosponsoring this and also Emory University which houses the papers and the wisdom of
To biloxi where he starts peddling newspapers. He was a newspaper boy. An honorable way to begin. Thats how i got my start. Of. [laughter] he gets his paris job at the daily herald his first job at the daily herald down in biloxi gulfport. Just purely serendipitously, its where i got my start, okay . [laughter] he portrays himself quite openly as a very gullible reporter, and i certainly hope that when youve bought the book and youve had a chance to look at it, youll be as entertained as we were by some of his early stories of falling for ruses and having great faith that everyone was telling him the truth. As you find out later, they werent always telling the truth. Of course, he then begins to develop a reputation as a very tough, hardnosed Investigative Reporter which gets him beat up a couple of times and sends him fleeing to the atlanta constitution where he continued to get beat up. [laughter] he did some just breakthrough investigative reporting that well hear about tonight. But