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South Africa Beyond Apartheid
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Club changes constitution to admit broadcast journalists, 1948
This Week In National Press Club History April 20, 1948: The Club’s constitution is amended to admit as active members “those whose principal work involved the gathering, writing or editing of news for dissemination by radio, television or facsimile.” In 1953 Ted Koop becomes the first broadcast journalist to be elected Club president. April 20, 1959: Dressed in his trademark combat fatigues, Fidel Castro, victor over Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, tells a Club luncheon that he has no dictatorial ambitions. Not until 1994 does another Cuban official, National Assembly president Ricardo…
Type: News
Prolific author of "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series promotes lighthearted novels
The prolific and popular writer Alexander McCall Smith kept a ballroom audience chuckling and laughing out loud Saturday as he made a case for novels that don’t focus on social problems. McCall Smith is touring the United States promoting and signing “The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection,” the 13th in the series focused on Precious Ramotswe, “the kindest and best detective in Botswana,” as the dust jacket says. He’s also promoting a children’s book: “The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case.” In addition to this series, McCall Smith has written novels in four other…
Type: News
Author gets break on Sept. 11 investigation over beer at FBI retirement party
Joshua Meyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist formerly with the Los Angeles Times, took a rapt National Press Club audience into the classified world of counterterrorism, espionage, and U.S. government attempts to capture the most dangerous man in the world at an April 11 book rap. In "The Hunt for KSM, Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of The Real 911 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," Meyer details the dogged pursuit of two agents who chased the terrorist from five years before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks until his 2003 arrest. Mohammed first appeared in the FBI cross hairs after the…
Type: News
Rock-and-roll photographer's relationships with stars produced iconic images
Photographer Tom Gundelfinger O’Neal provided a guided tour of the 1960s and 1970s rock and roll scene on April 11, as photo buffs and music fans gathered for a reception and program marking the opening of his month-long photo exhibit at the National Press Club. O’Neal was a young fine arts graduate searching for direction in the late 1960s when he had an “epiphany” at a record store in Carmel, Calif., as he gazed at the Mamas and Papas “Deliver” album cover. "I decided I am going to be a photographer and photograph rock and roll bands,” he said. He did a bit of 1960s-style networking in the…
Type: News
Best-selling author, journalist panel assess state of investigative journalism, 6:30 pm April 25
Best-selling author and American University professor Charles Lewis will introduce his multimedia project, "Investigating Power," at 6:30 p.m. April 25 in the Holeman Lounge. The event will include a panel discussion of independent journalism featuring an investigative reporter and leaders of journalism advocacy organizations. Lewis is executive producer of the project, founding executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop and professor of journalism at American University. He will moderate a panel featuring: Bill Kovach, former Washington bureau chief of the New York Times and…
Type: News
Club's Mr. Baseball, Paul Dickson, introduces "Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick," 6:30 pm April 24
Paul Dickson, the National Press Club's resident baseball expert, will discuss his new book, "Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick" at 6:30 p.m. April 24. Dickson has written more than 50 books, including "The Dickson Baseball Dictionary," which is now in its 3rd printing. He also has written books about American history and "The Bonus Army: An American Epic" was the basis of a PBS documentary Bill Veeck was one of the most colorful baseball owners in history. He integrated the American League when he signed Larry Doby in 1947. Some of his innovations, like putting player names on the…
Type: News
Make your reservations for Silver Owl Hoot, 6:30 pm April 26
Time is starting to run short to make reservations for the next Silver Owl hoot on April 26, when the National Press Club's most senior members gather for fellowship and fun, music and memories. The April 26 event will begin with a 6:30 p.m. reception, followed by dinner and a program featuring John Eaton, the great jazz pianist and one of the legendary interpreters of American popular music. The event will salute the the "long, gray line" -- the 32 surviving ex-presidents of the National Press Club and 10 surviving ex-presidents of the old Washington Press Club, which merged with the NPC in…
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Club members receive Shakespeare Theatre discount for "Strange Interlude"
Shakespeare Theatre is offering National Press Club members 30 percent off of all non-premium seats to "Strange Interlude," which is running at Sidney Harman Hall through April 29. To purchase tickets, call the Box Office at 202-547-1122, option 1 and use promotion code, "PRESS," or go online to www.ShakespeareTheatre.org and enter the same promotion code to get the discount. This offer is also valid for the remaining STC productions this season, "The Servant of Two Masters" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor." Click here for more information about "Strange Interlude" and other STC productions.
Type: News
Model pact brings harmony to Major League Baseball, says players' union chief
The historic labor agreement signed late last year by Major League Baseball and its union, the Major League Baseball Players Association, is a model for collective bargaining during a time of economic stress, MLBPA Executive Director Michael Weiner said at a National Press Club luncheon April 11. The five-year pact -- a change of pace from the bargaining strife and work stoppages that dominated much of the last century -- guarantees uninterrupted play of the national pastime through the 2016 season. “In times such as these,” Weiner said, “collecive bargaining may be difficult, adversarial and…
Type: News