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Photog Jess Kizis radio interview
Decades before Triad-area radio stations would risk their licenses by allowing a Fox 8 photog on their air, Fox Movietone News cameraman Jess Kizis sat down for an interview with Fred Allen on his “Town Hall News” radio show back on June 21, 1939. Here is that interview and a transcript of Kizis’ radio appearance: […]
Read More →The Man Who Fell to Earth
If harassing a super-villain is on your bucket list, grab a press-pass and get thee to Greensboro. That’s where you’ll find white hot pariah John Edwards, a man whose million dollar grin is conspicuously missing now that his trial for campaign fu…
Read More →The Man Who Fell to Earth
If harassing a super-villain is on your bucket list, grab a press-pass and get thee to Greensboro. That’s where you’ll find white hot pariah John Edwards, a man whose million dollar grin is conspicuously missing now that his trial for campaign fu…
Read More →Forever lost at sea
From the April 17, 1912 edition of La Presse of Paris, another article on the long-forgotten newsreel cameraman who went down with the Titanic a century ago today. Among the French passengers of the Titanic was one of our friends, Mr. Malachard, camera operator, attached for many years in the news section of the excellent […]
Read More →The disillusionment of childhood heroes
Well some of my Facebook friends who were 70s children were posting and liking videos of Evel Knievel yesterday. As such, I think I’ll post this little tidbit about their childhood hero – Knievel once laid a beatdown upon a NBC news photog who, that news reports of the event indicated, asked Knievel to stand […]
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