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to biloxi where he starts peddling newspapers. he was a newspaper boy. an honorable way to begin. that s 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, it s where i got my start, okay? [laughter] he portrays himself quite openly as a very gullible reporter, and i certainly hope that when you ve bought the book and you ve had a chance to look at it, you ll 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 weren t always telling the truth. of course, he then begins to develop a reputation as a very tough, hard-nosed 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 we l ....
and for co-sponsoring 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, african-american, of all sorts. and we re 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 jack s papers our possession now, and there s some rich, rich history in them. and i encourage everyone to go to marble and take a look at them. we re 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 don t 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 c ....
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