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With help from Maria Carrasco
Good Thursday morning, Illinois. It’s
Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the issues of extremism and domestic terrorism feel uncomfortably relevant.
TOP TALKER
Illinois Congressman Brad Schneider won t work with Republicans on bills if they can t state that Joe Biden won the presidency fair and square. | Samuel Corum/Getty Images
[ Editor’s Note: We are going to be mixing in more of our archival articles, especially by those who have passed on, many of them great talents, and sadly we are not seeing them replaced by equal quality often enough.
Alan Hart was one of those. He saw some of the Israeli-Arab wars up close and personal, including front line reporting from the Suez Canal when the British intervened. The year was 1967, when I was heading from Berkshire School to NC State, on the front end of my travels.
From his
“While covering the six-day war between Israel and its Arab neighbours, Hart was the first television reporter to reach the Suez canal with the Israelis, following their advance through the Sinai desert. Hundreds of Egyptian prisoners of war were seen surrendering on camera.