"The Boys on the Bus" - 12 Elections Later

Following the 1972 McGovern campaign, writer Timothy Crouse wrote "The Boys on the Bus," the seminal book on campaign reporting. As we head into a new campaign, we will be talking to three reporters who were on that bus — and they weren’t all boys.

Connie Chung (CBS News), who had just launched her television news career that year, Carl Leubsdorf (Dallas Morning News) and Tom Oliphant (Boston Globe) will share their stories with moderator Edwin Grosvenor, publisher of American Heritage Magazine. They will talk about how campaigns were covered that year, why the book was so important to journalism history and how campaign reporting has changed.

Sponsored by the National Press Club’s History and Heritage team with American Heritage Magazine, the program begins at 6:30 on Jan. 30. Tickets are $5 for members (login to get promo code) and $10 for non-members.