Blog Episode #8
In Carl Bernstein's new book Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, he mentions my father Coit Hendley a number of times. They were friends and colleagues and "newspapermen" back in the day together working on the Washington Star in Washington D.C. It is a great book, very evocative of those days when opinion was confined to the Editorial Pages, and journalists prided themselves on reporting the most factually accurate story they could. Of course they weren't perfect, but no one threw around accusations of fake news in those days of the 1950s to the 1980s, through the civil rights movement, Kennedy assasination, the moon landing, Watergate. Quite an era. It is full of details about how a newspaper gets the job done, using phone booths, carbon paper, and your feet to track down leads. Bernstein's love of his job comes across wonderfully. It is amazing to see my father and his world portrayed. I sent Bernstein a complimentary copy of my book about my father's World War II experience at D-Day, LCI-85: The Military Career of Lt(jg) Coit Hendley During the Invasions of North Africa, Italy, and Omaha Beach on D-Day: His Papers and Photos, and I never heard back, which is fine. Well, I guess he got it. He also mentioned me and my book. I even made it into the index, next to my father. Quite exciting!
My thanks go out to Peter Alexander who alerted me to my presence in this book before I’d had a chance to read it!
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I hope everyone is well out there!
