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
And for cosponsoring it, and also the Emory University woodruff libraries, particularly the manuscript, archives and Rare Books Library which houses the papers and the wisdom of a great number of southern journalists; white, africanamerican, of all sorts. And were so pleased that five of those are Pulitzer Prize winners, and the latest among them is jack nelson. Barbara was so generous and has made jacks papers our possession now, and theres some rich, rich history in them. And i encourage everyone to go to marble and take a look at them. Were here tonight to celebrate the life, the memoir, the papers of jack nelson with some people who knew him extremely well. Jack was a man of enormous influence and consequence in the nation. The story of jack nelson, for those who dont know, is the story of news reporting in the latter half of the 20th century. If you look at his career starting off, he was born in talladega, alabama, just across the state line, moves as a child to biloxi where he s