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Ray Boomhower
Matt Delmont
Marc Leepson, Author of The Unlikely War Hero.
Episode 3409 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a discussion about the life and contributions of Wallace Terry. Andy Pham, a good friend of this podcast has brought three distinguished writers and historians to the podcast for the discussions. They are Marc Leepson, Matt Delmont and Ray Boomhower.
Ray E. Boomhower is an Award-winning biographer. He tells the story of a journalist who spent his life smashing barriers, from his childhood in Indiana and his Ivy League education at Brown to his reporting on the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South in the 1960s and, finally, covering what he described as “the biggest story in the world” of his time, the Vietnam War.
Delmont, author of the book is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African American history and the history of civil rights, he is the author of five books, most recently Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and several academic journals, and on NPR. Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Delmont earned his BA from Harvard University and his MA and PhD from Brown University.
Marc Leepson presently is a Senior Writer, Arts Editor, and columnist for the VVA Veteran, which is the magazine published by the Vietnam Veterans of America.
In the past Marc served as a staff writer the Congressional Quarterly and has written for many newspapers and magazines, including Preservation, Smithsonian, Military History, Civil War times, the Washington Post, New York Times, New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Triune, Dallas Morning News, New York Newsday and USA Today and for the Encyclopedia Britannica, The Encyclopedia Americana and the Dictionary of Virginia Biography.
Listen to episode 3409 and discover more about Wallace Terry.
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