Author: Marc Lancaster
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‘Nuts!’: Gen. Anthony McAuliffe’s legendary Bastogne rebuff
When retired Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe died in 1975, both the headline and the first sentence of his New York Times obituary prominently featured perhaps the most famous one-word sentence in United States history: “Nuts!” The fact that McAuliffe rated a lengthy news obituary in the paper of record was attributable mostly to that single…
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D-Day: Utah Beach with Kenneth Crawford
Newsweek’s Ken Crawford went ashore with the first wave on Utah Beach, an experience that led to one of the most memorable eyewitness accounts of D-Day.
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The first rough draft of history
Washington Post publisher Philip Graham popularized the notion of journalism as the “first rough draft of history” — as comprehensive and accurate an account of events as possible without the benefit of the broader context that only comes with time. Journalists have labored under that burden every day for a couple hundred years or so,…
World War II on Deadline 