Overview
On May 7, 1945, Associated Press reporter Ed Kennedy became the most famous -- or infamous -- American correspondent of World War II. On that day in France, General Alfred Jodl signed the official documents as the Germans surrendered to the Allies. Army officials allowed a select number of reporters, including Kennedy, to witness this historic moment -- but then instructed the journalists that the story was under military embargo. In a courageous but costly move, Kennedy defied the military embargo and broke the news of the Allied victory. His scoop generated instant controversy. Rival news organisations angrily protested, and the AP fired him several months after the war ended. In this absorbing and previously unpublished personal account, Kennedy recounts his career as a newspaperman from his early days as a stringer in Paris to the aftermath of his dismissal from the AP. During his time as a foreign correspondent, he covered the Spanish Civil War, the rise of Mussolini in Italy, unrest in Greece, and ethnic feuding in the Balkans. During World War II, he reported from Greece, Italy, North Africa, and the Middle East before heading back to France to cover its liberation and the German surrender negotiations. His decision to break the news of V-E Day made him front-page headlines in the New York Times. In his narrative, Kennedy emerges both as a reporter with an eye for a good story and an unwavering foe of censorship. This edition includes an introduction by Tom Curley and John Maxwell Hamilton, as well as a prologue and epilogue by Kennedy's daughter, Julia Kennedy Cochran. Their work draws upon newly available records held in the Associated Press Corporate Archives.
Full Product Details
Author: Ed Kennedy ,
Julia Kennedy Cochran ,
Tom Curley ,
John Maxwell Hamilton
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Imprint: Louisiana State University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.90cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.333kg
ISBN: 9780807145258
ISBN 10: 0807145254
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 09 May 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
John Maxwell Hamilton is founding dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at LSU, Baton Rouge. He is the author or coauthor of six other books, most recently Journalism's Roving Eye. Julia Kennedy Cochran worked as a journalist in New York for the Associated Press, Reuters, and Business Week magazine. She obtained an MBA at Columbia University and worked as a marketing manager at high-tech companies in New York and Seattle. Tom Curley is president and CEO of the Associated Press.
