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Reporter - Covering Civil Rights...And Wrongs in Dixie (Hardcover)
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Reporter - Covering Civil Rights...And Wrongs in Dixie (Hardcover)
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When a United Press International executive asked Al Benn where he
wanted to begin his journalism career, he unhesitatingly replied:
"Where the action is." Little did he know at the time that he'd
wind up reporting on America's civil rights movement in Birmingham,
Alabama which was known as BOMBingham in the 1960s. Benn had no
experience as a reporter in 1964, but he quickly learned by
following and watching those who did. One night, he might be in a
pasture covering a Ku Klux Klan rally where grand dragons and
imperial wizards in white sheets delivered hate-filled speeches
under the glow of burning crosses. The next night, he might be
inside a black church where civil rights leaders called for peace
and racial harmony. It was an exciting, often harrowing time for
the rookie reporter-filled with deadline pressures, danger and the
knowledge that he had become personally involved in covering
developments of historic proportions. When he wasn't chronicling
civil rights events, Benn wrote about scientists and astronauts
involved in the space race as well as reaction on the home front to
the war that raged in Vietnam. His favorite assignment was covering
football at the University of Alabama where he got to know the
Crimson Tide's head coach, Paul "Bear" Bryant, and reported the
exploits of star quarterbacks such as Joe Namath and Ken Stabler.
He also found time to write several exclusive stories. One involved
secret payments to the widows of Alabama pilots killed during the
disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. Another centered on the
national boycott of Beatles records--launched by two Birmingham
radio personalities upset over a comment by John Lennon that his
group was more popular than Jesus. Benn left UPI in 1967 to begin
the newspaper phase of his journalism career. He worked in three
states, becoming an editor and publisher, before landing his best
job of all -covering rural Alabama for the Montgomery Advertiser in
1980. Benn has written about heroes a
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