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Personal Papers of World War II-era Journalist Alexander Kendrick Now Available in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives
From the onset of the Second World War through the events of the Cold War, journalist, author, and foreign correspondent Alexander Kendrick documented and reported numerous conflicts, escalations, and de-escalations of a world at war.
After a lengthy career in journalism, Mr. Kendrick retired in 1975. After he died in 1991, his family donated his personal papers to the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives, which has a collection devoted to the history of the field of journalism. The collection is comprised of television and radio scripts, handwritten notes, personal and professional correspondence, ephemera, records, and photographs from his days as a foreign correspondent, with The Public Ledger and The Philadelphia Inquirer, to his time with Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
From South Philly to Soviet Russia
Born on July 6, 1910, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mr. Kendrick grew up in South Philly and graduated from Central High School. His career in journalism began with The Public Ledger in Philadelphia.
When the Ledger folded in 1942, Mr. Kendrick moved on to The Philadelphia Inquirer, which sent him o
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A Reporter's Life
[according to Russian propaganda] we [the USA] allegedly delayed the second front in Normandy so that the Germans could kill more Soviet soldiers. And there were scores of little stones to go with these boulders of shameless falsehood. They claimed that Russians had invented every modern device, from telegraph to the airplane. They reached the pinnacle of mendacity with the claim that they had invented baseball.Long ago, in a galaxy far away, families used to gather around the TV every weekday night and watch the nightly news. This was before the mass of streaming sources we have today, before the internet, before, even, cable, before news was considered a corporate profit cente
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