When I heard that Muhammad Ali was going to speak in Modesto, I immediately started asking Darell Phillips, the Modesto Bee’s Sports Editor, to give me the assignment. It wasn’t until the next day that I checked the photo schedule and saw I was on nights that week, so the assignment would be mine […]
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John V. Tunney California Senatorial Campaign 1970
Last week I blogged my 1968 experience with national politics and campaign trains in my blog “Robert F. Kennedy 1968.â€Â A little more than two years later, I got the opportunity to put into action what I had learned when I was given the assignment to cover 1970 U.S. Senatorial candidate John V. Tunney.  […]