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Cub: The Story of
a Boy Reporter
A gallon of gas cost 60 cents — an outrageously high price in the inflationary mid-1970s. The Vietnam War had just ended, and the first videotape recorders were appearing in Japan. Bell-bottoms and teardrop eyeglasses were in style. Fugitive newspaper heiress Patty Hearst — who had joined her kidnappers in robbing a bank— had just been captured. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak would soon form Apple Computer Company. A year after that, the lights would go out in Manhattan for 25 hours. The following year, Egypt and Israel would sign an historic peace treaty. These were the newspaper headlines of the times. Against this backdrop, a teenage reporter sought his own headlines, interviewing the famous and the powerful, seeking new stories to tell while in pursuit of “the scoop”: the Holy Grail of all reporters. Starting at the age of 16, armed with only a pencil, a borrowed camera, and his trusty typewriter, this intrepid “cub” reporter covered some of the greatest stories and people of the era. This is his story... and some of the stories he wrote. What will you find in Cub: The Story of a Boy Reporter? In addition to some entertaining autobiographical anecdotes of the young author’s brief stint as a “cub” reporter (from college press and country journalism to turning down CNN), and contemporaneous articles written during that period (like the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter in Washington, DC and the Spenkelink execution in Florida), Cub also includes interviews with and/or photographs of: If you’re a fan of television, movies, comic books, science fiction, politics, or the craft of writing then you will find something of interest inCub: The Story of a Boy Reporter. |
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