This Week In National Press Club History

June 11, 1927: The Club holds a reception for the most famous man in the world at that time, aviator Charles Lindbergh, who had just completed his historic solo flight across the Atlantic. The Club quarters were too small to hold the crowd, so the auditorium of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was booked instead.

June 11, 2001: Historian David McCullough, winner of numerous Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Awards for his monumental works on major American political figures and historical eras, discusses his hit biography of John Adams at a book rap. Over the past thirty years, the Club has welcomed many distinguished writers of science fiction, politics, cookbooks, romance and other genres as speakers at Club luncheons and book events.

This Week In National Press Club History is brought to you by the History & Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s history through displays, panel discussions, events, and its oral history project.

For more information on the Committee, or to join it, contact Chair Gilbert Klein at [email protected].