Jumping Off the Bridge
The New York paper (specifically our friend Carol Pogash) today reports that the people who run the Golden Gate Bridge will finally for heaven’s sake, install a suicide barrier. The average last […]
Category Archives: journalism
JFK
Today another story out there about who killed President Kennedy. Fifty years ago. Like maybe who or what did it is still alive and ready to confess. Or that finally […]
A Thanksgiving Tale
I got an assignment back then to do a Thanksgiving piece for NPR and soldiered off by phone and car to make a little radio story about turkeys. They raise […]
why I no longer work for NBC News ever
Back then, early oughts, I was field producing live shots for the Today Show. Not much money, but kinda fun way to spend an early morning. Usually pretty good stories, […]
Forest Fires
I remember being frightened, but I don’t think I was ever as afraid as I should have been. Started fighting and covering wild fires in about 1973, first on […]
Night shift
The private plane went into the Lake Michigan trying to land on Christmas Eve. I was working evenings, 6 to 2 AM so I was there when it happened and the city […]
Dope
There was a try to legalize marijuana in California in 1972. Voters whomped the initiative 2-1. But it was fun. The pro-dope campaign was run as straight as possible, all […]
