For Release: May 25 , 2007
The 1998 Kentucky Author Forum appearance of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam , who died in a car accident in California in late April , air s Sunday, June 10 at 10/9 p.m. CT on KET2.
The best-selling author won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his early and riveting reports from Vietnam. He wrote more than 20 books throughout his career , including The Best and the Brightest Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals ; and The Education of a Coach .
On this edition of Kentucky Author Forum , Halberstam discuss es The Children , a chronicle of the early days of the civil rights movement. The book focuses on the personal stories of a core group of young students who risked their lives over a five-year period to dramatically change the nation. Halberstam was a reporter for The Tennessean in 1960 when he covered their first non-violent attempts to break the color barrier by sitting at segregated lunch counters in downtown Nashville. A few of those students rose to levels of significant influence, eventually advising Dr. Martin Luther King, as the civil rights movement became national in scope.
Halberstam is interviewed by Roger Wilkins, p rofessor of h istory and American c ulture at George Mason University and former a ssistant a ttorney general of the U.S. from 1966 to 19 69 .
Kentucky Author Forum Presents: A Conversation with David Halberstam is a KET production. The producer-director is Duncan Hart; Nancy Carpenter serves as executive producer. The author's appearance in Louisville was produced by the Kentucky Author Forum (Mary Moss Greenebaum, producer) and sponsored by the University of Louisville, in partnership with Brown-Forman and The Humana Foundation. More information about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.