This Week In National Press Club History

July 23, 1992: Jim Brown, Cleveland Browns running back (1957-1965) and film actor, speaks to a National Press Club luncheon about his work with Los Angeles street gangs. Called by Sporting News in 2002 “the greatest ever professional football player,” Brown later became an accomplished film actor, his performance as the convict Robert Jefferson in “The Dirty Dozen” one of his best-known roles. Other football stars, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and Sonny Jurgensen, Washington Redskins quarterback, have also shared their insights at the Club on the sport, second careers, and physical fitness.

July 23, 2010: Daniel Schorr, National Press Club member since 1985 and renowned broadcast journalist honored and respected for his tough and principled questioning of the powerful everywhere, dies at the age of 93.

This Week In National Press Club History is brought to you by the History & Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s century-plus years of history with lobby displays, events, panel discussions, and its oral history project, which now contains two hundred interviews of leading NPC members, personnel, and officers, which are available to researchers in the Club’s archives.

For more information on the Committee’s activities, or to join it, contact Chair Gilbert Klein at [email protected]. And check the Club’s website for our newly expanded TIMELINE of historic Club events from 1908 to the present. A new lobby display will be up in a few weeks.