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May 8th, 2012
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This is part of a compelling passage I read today in Clark Lee’s “They Call it Pacific,” a 1943 book that describes Lee’s escape on New Year’s Eve, 1941, just minutes before midnight, on the same boat as Melville Jacoby and his wife, Annalee. Read the rest of What it sounded like May 2nd, 2012 The strong impressions Mel made weren’t limited to personal relations, though. After Mel died in 1942, Stanford University’s journalism department produced a beautiful pamphlet memorializing his life. The booklet led off with reflections on Mel and the impact his reporting had in those early days of World War II. They came from two of the most prominent U.S. military officials of the time, General Douglas MacArthur and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. See what they had to say after the jump. Read the rest of Don’t Take My Word For It April 28th, 2012
Read the rest of Studying Melville Jacoby in Eugene April 27th, 2012
Seventy years ago, Sunday, a plane landed at a secret airfield near Darwin, Australia. Three men disembarked. One was a young second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Another was a general, a former ace pilot who’d shot down five German planes Read the rest of Seventy Years Ago March 29th, 2012 Seventy years ago, yesterday, a small freighter, the Dona Nati, arrived at the Port of Brisbane. Aboard were a handful of Americans, mostly journalists, who’d just spent four often harrowing, often tense months at sea. Most of those months were spent aboard an even smaller vessel. Sailing at night and hiding, they’d dodged Japanese Read the rest of Escaping From Bataan March 20th, 2012 I was interviewed by KCLU’s Lance Orozco for a story about Melville Jacoby that aired today for that station’s broadcast of “Morning Edition.” You should now be able to hear that story at the following link: Thanks for listening. Please share this with anyone who might be interested. Speaking of radio, don’t Read the rest of Melville’s Story on the Radio March 16th, 2012 UPDATE:This post was originally written for a Kickstarter campaign that is now over. You can continue to support this project directly through this website. Learn more and donate by clicking here. I was digging through the collection of materials I have at my place related to Melville Jacoby (most are at my Grandmother’s Read the rest of A Letter From Melville Jacoby’s Best Friend March 13th, 2012 UPDATE:This post was originally written for a Kickstarter campaign that is now over. You can continue to support this project directly through this website. Learn more and donate by clicking here. What does a shipwreck off the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the 1960s have to do with Melville Jacoby’s death across the Pacific Read the rest of The Wreck of the Dominator March 9th, 2012 UPDATE:The Kickstarter campaign is now over. You can continue to support this project directly through this website. Learn more and donate by clicking here. WOW!!! This is exciting. Two and a half days of fundraising down and I’ve already raised more than $1800 here on Kickstarter. Woohoo. I’m expecting a few hundred more from Read the rest of Getting Going |
      
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Actors play Melville and Annalee Jacoby in a 1943 dramatization for NBC of Clark Lee’s “They Call it Pacific.” Read the full post to learn more and to find what where you can listen to the show in full.
“…The noise stripped the eagles from the colonel’s shoulders and left him a little boy, naked and afraid. It drove all the intelligence from the nurse’s eyes and left them vacant and staring. It wrapped a steel tourniquet of fear around your head, until your skull felt like bursting…”
Many of you have heard about Melville Jacoby by now. Those who haven’t can read more about him there, and elsewhere on my blog. Now that the seventieth anniversary of his death is upon us, I’m renewing my work writing the book Mel never got to write. Later today I’m headed down to Eugene, OR, to visit the special collections at the University of Oregon library. There, I’ll peruse the manuscripts of the Charles E. Stuart Collection. Stuart, you’ll recall, was the dentist and amateur radio enthusiast in Ventura, Calif. who received radio broadcasts Mel set up from XGOY, the official Republic of China radio station in wartime Chungking, China (now known as Chongqing).
