Richard Valeriani
Richard Valeriani was White House correspondent and diplomatic correspondent with NBC News in the 1960s and 1970s. He previously covered the civil rights movement for the network and was seriously injured when hit with an ax handle at a demonstration in Marion, Alabama in 1965[1] in which Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed by Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler.[2]
Valeriani portrayed himself as a reporter for CNN from the deck of the French aircraft carrier Foch in the 1995 film "Crimson Tide".
References
- ^ Davis, Townsend (1998), Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 121–123, ISBN 0393045927, http://books.google.com/?id=S7IYlI9KopkC
- ^ Fleming, John (6 March 2005), "The Death of Jimmie Lee Jackson", The Anniston Star, http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/2005/as-insight-0306-jflemingcol-5c09o1640.htm, retrieved 2008-01-21
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