- Bill Baggs
William Calhoun "Bill" Baggs was editor of
The Miami News from 1957 until his death in 1969. Bill Baggs was one of a group of Southern editors who campaigned forcivil rights forAfrican-Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. Others in this group includedRalph McGill at the "The Atlanta Constitution",Hodding Carter at the "Greenville Delta Democrat-Times" andHarry Ashmore at the "Arkansas Gazette". [Roberts, Eugene L. Civil Rights Era Editors. American Society of Newspaper Editors [http://www.asne.org/kiosk/archive/convention/2001/leadership/civilrights.html] - URL retrievedJune 25 2006 ] [ [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2769 Ralph McGill (1898-1969), in The New Georgia Encyclopedia] - URL retrievedJune 25 2006 ] Baggs became an early opponent of theVietnam War . In 1967 and 1968 Bill Baggs traveled toNorth Vietnam with Harry Ashmore on a private peace mission. While there, they interviewedHo Chi Minh about what conditions would be necessary to end the war. [U.S. Department of State: Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, Volume V, Vietnam 1967, "Marigold, Sunflower, and the Continuing Search for Peace, January-February, Document 20. Editorial Note" [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/v/13137.htm] - URL retrievedJune 25 2006 ] Unknown at the time, Bill Baggs was also one of thejournalist s involved in theCIA 'sOperation Mockingbird . [ [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm Operation Mockingbird] - URL retrievedJune 25 2006 ] Bill Baggs died of a heart attack in 1969 at age 48. [ [http://www.bookrags.com/history/americanhistory/america-1960s-media/05.html Death of Bill Baggs] - URL retrievedJune 25 2006 June 25 2006 ]See also
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* Teel, Leonard Ray. 2003. Mott winner recounts research. "
Kappa Tau Alpha Newsletter", Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter 2003. [http://www.missouri.edu/~ktahq/wint03.pdf] - accessedJune 25 2006
* [http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/printout/0,23657,863834,00.html 1958 Profile of Bill Baggs in Time magazine] - accessedJune 25 2006
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